University of Hawaiʻi (University of Hawaiʻi Maui College)

The University of Hawaiʻi, in collaboration with Indigenous Hawaiian communities, will increase and improve intellectual access to Hawaiian collections and materials, and support Indigenous and other marginalized communities in related work. Grant activities will include (1) co-creating foundational components of an Indigenous Hawaiian knowledge organization system; (2) co-creating ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi (Indigenous Hawaiian language) controlled vocabularies for Hawaiian collections and materials; and (3) documenting and sharing activities, outcomes, and processes throughout the life of the project to benefit other communities with similar needs. The project will fill an important gap in current professional practice, as there exists an acute lack of documentation about processes and workflows for co-creating Indigenous knowledge organization systems and controlled vocabularies.