Ho?a Hou Ka Lamaku - Lighting a Path to New Digital Infrastructure for Bishop Museum Cultural Collections

FAIN: CHA-286631-22

Bernice P. Bishop Museum (Honolulu, HI 96817-2704)
Melissa Tulig (Project Director: September 2021 to present)

Integration of various databases and digital assets into a central content management system to ensure improved access to and continued sustainability of Indigenous cultural collections at Bishop Museum, Hawai'i.

Ho?a Hou Ka Lamaku - Lighting a Path to New Digital Infrastructure for Bishop Museum Cultural Collections will provide transformative change for the care and sharing of digitized cultural heritage at Bishop Museum centered on the inclusion and attribution of Indigenous knowledge. This project will improve every aspect of our digital framework by investing in information systems and hardware; data standardization, integration, and digital asset management; and online platform development and outreach.