Wir laden herzlich zum Vortrag von Chris Cormack aus Neuseeland/Aotearoa ein: „Ngā Upoko Tukutuku: Weaving Indigenous Knowledge into Metadata. Māori Subject Headings, Data Sovereignty, and the Politics of Description" (längere Beschreibung unten).

Der Vortrag beginnt am 30.3. um 9.00 morgens und wird ca. 1.15 Stunden gehen, danach trifft sich die UAG Thesauri für einen Austausch über den aktuellen Stand der Arbeiten in xTree.

Abstract des Vortrags:
"When a resource about haka was catalogued as "Folk dancing, Maori (New Zealand people)", something more than a classification error occurred, a world view was erased. Ngā Upoko Tukutuku / Māori Subject Headings was developed to address exactly this: a thesaurus of te reo Māori subject headings that does not simply translate existing Library of Congress terms, but articulates the conceptual genealogy of knowledge from within a Māori world view.

Launched in 2006  Ngā Upoko Tukutuku now contains over 2,000 terms and is maintained by Te Whakakaokao, the Ngā Upoko Tukutuku Reo Māori Working Group, under the governance of LIANZA, Te Rōpū Whakahau, and the National Library of New Zealand. Its name draws from the art of tukutuku weaving, a metaphor for how diverse threads of knowledge are woven together into a coherent structure.

This talk explores the practical and political dimensions of this work:
how new headings are developed and validated, the challenges of coining terminology in rapidly evolving domains, the tensions between standardisation and dialectal diversity across iwi, and the ongoing question of scope, should these headings describe only material about Māori, or serve as a framework for all knowledge as experienced through te ao Māori?

Beneath these practical questions lies a deeper one about data sovereignty. Who controls how knowledge is named and organised? Who decides when a concept is ready to enter the thesaurus, and on what authority? As AI systems increasingly rely on metadata to surface, interpret, and recommend information, the stakes of getting this right, or leaving it to default Western ontologies, have never been higher.

Drawing on involvement with Te Kāhui Raraunga and the Global Indigenous Data Alliance, the talk situates Ngā Upoko Tukutuku within broader international conversations about Indigenous data governance, and considers what Aotearoa's experience offers to other communities navigating the same territory."

Die Veranstaltung findet online in diesem Raum statt:
Uhrzeit: 30. März 2026 09:00 AM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rom, Stockholm, Wien
https://hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/63951551909?pwd=F84loUhiJa5h3UhxkkXYJ0kdnzAUBI.1
Meeting-ID: 639 5155 1909
Passwort: 895418

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Gesa Grimme, Werner Schweibenz und Moritz Strickert