Mau ka Leo: Safeguarding Hawai'i's Genealogy of Knowledge and Lived Experience

FAIN: ZDH-283709-22

Bernice P. Bishop Museum (Honolulu, HI 96817-2704)
Melissa Tulig (Project Director: May 2021 to September 2023)

The digitization of museum collections and museum staff knowledge through supporting 15 existing employees, and the hiring of a Digital Humanities Specialist to manage the project. 

Through Mau Ka Leo, Bishop Museum proposes to capture institutional and cultural knowledge held by staff so that the collective voice(s) of Bishop Museum can endure for future generations. This project supports the salaries of staff members across our cultural and huma collections as well as the hiring of a Digital Humanities Specialist, who will manage the project under the direction of the Museum’s Director of Informatics. Additionally, a Humanities Advisory Committee will be established to define the guiding principles for recording knowledge and to support the development of themes and content throughout the project. In tandem with the migration of Museum collections already digitized to the EMu platform, this knowledge will be documented through EMu’s Narratives module, allowing for multiple ways of knowing to be presented and for connections to be made across departments. This information will be made accessible to the public through CultureConnect, an online experience platform.