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Wai (water) is a life-sustaining resource and its value is noted in the \u02bb\u014dlelo Hawai\u02bbi word for wealth – waiwai. Where there is water, there is abundance.<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Our project name, Kaho\u02bbiwai, literally translates to the returning waters. Wai (water) is a life-sustaining resource and its value is noted in the \u02bb\u014dlelo Hawai\u02bbi word for wealth – waiwai. Where there is water, there is abundance. Like the movements to restore Hawai\u02bbi\u2019s waterways back to their natural paths, Kaho\u02bbiwai aims to remove obstacles and allow the waiwai and ea of Hawaiian knowledge to flow to the l\u0101hui Hawai\u02bbi. Kaho\u02bbiwai will focus on the following kahawai or streams:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kahawai 1: Hawaiian Knowledge Organization System<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Co-create a Hawaiian Knowledge Organization System (HKOS) that supports Hawaiian language-controlled vocabulary and develops processes and partnerships to ensure the sustainable maintenance of the HKOS. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kahawai 2: N\u016bpepa Index<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Co-create a Hawaiian language newspaper index to improve the discoverability of community-indexed information in Hawaiian language newspapers and pilot the application of HKOS to a sampling of records. The N\u016bpepa Index will combine community partner indexes (around 38,000 indexed entries) into a freely available open-source database and allow for future community-created indexes to be contributed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kahawai 3: Improve description in OCLC<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Improve descriptions of Hawaiian Collection materials by reviewing 7,500 OCLC records of humanities materials and enhancing them with summary notes and table of contents, and pilot the application of HKOS to a sampling of records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kahawai 4: Reparative description in the archives<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Increase the visibility of Hawaiian archival materials by processing, reprocessing, and redescribing collections with reparative descriptions and piloting the application of the HKOS to a sampling of ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵM Library archival collections related to Native Hawaiian communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our project name, Kaho\u02bbiwai, literally translates to the returning waters. Wai (water) is a life-sustaining resource and its value is noted in the \u02bb\u014dlelo Hawai\u02bbi word for wealth – waiwai. Where there is water, there is abundance. Like the movements … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-anchor.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3109","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/kawaihapai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/kawaihapai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/kawaihapai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/kawaihapai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/kawaihapai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3109"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/kawaihapai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3474,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/kawaihapai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3109\/revisions\/3474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/kawaihapai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}