He Matapihi Mā Mua, Mō Muri: The Ethics, Processes, and Procedures Associated with the Digitization of Indigenous Knowledge—The Pei Jones Collection

Whaanga, Hēmi; Bainbridge, David; Anderson, Michela; Scrivener, Korii; Cader, Papitha; Roa, Tom; Keegan, Te Taka Adrian Gregory

doi:10.1080/01639374.2015.1009670

Cited by 25 publications

(14 citation statements)

References 5 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…In many ways, TEK varies in the role it plays within scientific research. For example, collecting instrumental data in a 'good way' , may involve following traditional values, such as having respect for samples and other ethical commitments that tie into cultural practices (Whaanga et al, 2015). This is particularly relevant to the Apoqnamatulti'k project.…”

Section: Community-based Participatory Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Ocean Observing: A Review of Successful Partnerships

et al. 2021

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Understanding and management of the marine environment requires respect for, and inclusion of, Indigenous knowledge, cultures, and traditional practices. The Aha Honua, an ocean observing declaration from Coastal Indigenous Peoples, calls on the ocean observing community to “formally recognize the traditional knowledge of Indigenous peoples,” and “to learn and respect each other’s ways of knowing.” Ocean observing systems typically adopt open data sharing as a core principle, often requiring that data be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR). Without modification, this approach to Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) would mean disregarding historical and ongoing injustices and imbalances in power, and information management principles designed to address these wrongs. TEK from global ocean observing is not equitable or desirable. Ocean observing systems tend to align with settler geography, but their chosen regions often include Indigenous coastal-dwelling communities that have acted as caretakers and stewards of the land and ocean for thousands of years. Achieving the call of Aha Honua will require building relationships that recognize Indigenous peoples play a special role in the area of ocean stewardship, care, and understanding. This review examines the current understanding of how Indigenous TEK can be successfully coordinated or utilized alongside western scientific systems, specifically the potential coordination of TEK with ocean observing systems. We identify relevant methods and collaborative projects, including cases where TEK has been collected, digitized and the meta(data) has been made open under some or all the FAIR principles. This review also highlights enabling factors that notably contribute to successful outcomes in digitization, and mitigation measures to avoid the decontextualization of TEK. Recommendations are primarily value- and process-based, rather than action-based, and acknowledge the key limitation that this review is based on extant written knowledge. In cases where examples are provided, or local context is necessary to be concrete, we refer to a motivating example of the nascent Atlantic Regional Association of the Canadian Integrated Ocean Observing System and their desire to build relationships with Indigenous communities.

show abstract

Section: Community-based Participatory Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Ocean Observing: A Review of Successful Partnerships

et al. 2021

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Keegan and Cunliffe (2014) state that passing on te reo Māori (the Māori language) to the next generation is insufficient to ensuring language survival if there are no opportunities to use the language. This attitude inspires ongoing technological development and helps ensure that te reo Māori can be used in daily life (Keegan & Nfato, 2014;Mato et al, 2016;Whaanga et al, 2015).…”

Section: Moving Into Colonized Spaces (Digital Transitions)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Indigenous language technologies: Anti-colonial oases in a colonizing (digital) world

Brinklow

2021

WINHEC Journal

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Language technologies are an increasingly common part of daily life for people around the world. Millions of users per day access services like Google Translate and Apple's Siri in a technology ecosystem that favours a handful of the world's most common languages. In a form of digital colonization, Indigenous languages are pushed aside in a profit-based system of research and development that results in both values conflicts and technological misalignments. Despite the hostile environment that disincentivizes the use of Indigenous languages, Indigenous language communities are pushing back by engaging language technologies to proactively support their work of language maintenance and revitalization. This paper argues that Indigenous leadership in the development of language technologies encourages the development of responsive and responsible Indigenous language technologies (ILT) that push back against dominant cultural and technical limitations.

show abstract

“…Failing such authentic representation, indigenous peoples have had to accept their effective marginalization by using inaccurate and imprecise organization of documents and subject headings or through collecting their own items in "smaller, flexible, sometimes ephemeral, private offline and online locations" (Duarte and Belarde-Lewis, 2015, p. 679). Whaangaa et al (2015) discussed the importance of transforming the digital representation of indigenous culture by incorporating historical contexts and the ethics of indigenous ownership. In order to develop an appropriate space and place for indigenous knowledge, Duarte and Belarde-Lewis (2015) proposed a technique of imagining for "creating figurative and literal spaces for the work of building, analyzing, and experimenting with indigenous knowledge organization" (p. 687).…”

Section: Indigenous Knowledge Representation and Organizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Representation of indigenous cultures: considering the Hawaiian hula

Hajibayova

Buente

2017

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the representation of Kanaka Maoli (Hawaiian) Hula Dance in traditional systems of representation and organization. Design/methodology/approach This exploratory study analyzes the controlled and natural language vocabularies employed for the representation and organization of Hawaiian culture, in particular Hawaiian hula. The most widely accepted and used systems were examined: classification systems (Library of Congress Classification and Dewey Decimal Classification), subject heading systems (Library of Congress Subject Headings and authority files (Library of Congress and OCLC Authority Files), and citation indexing systems (Web of Science Social Sciences and Art and Humanities databases). Findings Analysis of various tools of representation and organization revealed biases and diasporization in depictions of Hawaiian culture. The study emphasizes the need to acknowledge the aesthetic perspective of indigenous people in their organization and presentation of their own cultural knowledge and advocates a decolonizing methodology to promote alternative information structures in indigenous communities. Originality/value This study contributes to the relatively limited scholarship on representation and organization for indigenous knowledge organization systems, in particular Hawaiian culture. Research suggests that access to Native Hawaiian cultural heritage will raise awareness among information professionals in Hawai’i to the beauty of Native Hawaiian epistemology.

show abstract

He Matapihi Mā Mua, Mō Muri: The Ethics, Processes, and Procedures Associated with the Digitization of Indigenous Knowledge—The Pei Jones Collection

Cited by 25 publications

References 5 publications

Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Ocean Observing: A Review of Successful Partnerships

Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Ocean Observing: A Review of Successful Partnerships

Indigenous language technologies: Anti-colonial oases in a colonizing (digital) world

Representation of indigenous cultures: considering the Hawaiian hula

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About