Ho?olala Ulu, Growing Indigenous Hawaiian Knowledge Access

FAIN: PW-290535-23

Hula Preservation Society (Kaneohe, HI 96744-3814)
Maile Loo (Project Director: July 2022 to present)

The creation of an Indigenous-centered Controlled Vocabulary to enhance the description of video oral histories with Native Hawaiian elders. The project would also produce guidelines for developing Indigenous-centered subject headings and preferred terms.

Hula Preservation Society proposes to create the first Indigenous-centered Controlled Vocabulary (ICV) for contents of the HPS Oral History Library, a video-based resource built over the last 20 years in collaboration with esteemed Native Hawaiians elders. HPS will also prepare 60 sets of ICV-integrated Finding Aids (FAs) for the aforementioned library. The new ICV and FAs will be made available online for research, scholarship, and download through the University of Hawai?i, the Hawai?i State Public Library, Papakilo Database of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, and HPS’s own online repository of learning, Digital ?Umeke. HPS will disseminate project results, lessons learned, and content highlights through a national conference presentation, local public program, and a series of online stories. Ho?olala Ulu contributes to the ongoing challenges that exist in representation of indigenous worldviews in traditional knowledge classification and organization systems.