Bishop Museum

Mau Ka Leo: Safeguarding Hawai'i's Genealogy of Knowledge and Lived Experience [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.] [purpose: This Project Will Digitize Objects in the Bishop Museum?s Collections and Make Them Publicly Available Online. These Materials Will Be Accompanied by Interviews, Conversations, and Multimedia Expressions That Tell the History and Importance of These Objects to Hawai?ians, Created by the Hawai?ian Community. This Project Will Also Create and Retain Positions at the Museum.   Activities to Be Performed: This Project Will Retain 15 Positions and Hire a Digital Humanities Specialist. the Museum Will Aggregate Their Museum Collections Database, Digital Assets, and Related Materials Into One System for Global Accessibility. This System Will Also Allow for the Integration of Narrative Components, Created by the Project?s Hawai?ian Staff, Which the Program Will Draw on to Provide Explanations of the Objects? Importance. Funding Will Also Allow This Project to Utilize Cultureconnect to Create a Platform for Their Digital Materials and Multimedia Narratives. Lastly, This Project Will Allow the Bishop Museum to Digitize Assets for Their New System and Platform.     Expected Outcomes: This Project Will Allow the Bishop Museum to Digitize and Make Accessible Materials Within Their Collections. It Will Retain 15 Positions and Hire a Digital Humanities Specialist. It Will Allow the Migration of the Museum?s Digital Records and Materials Into One System, and It Will Allow Them to Create a Platform Through Cultureconnect to Display Those Digitized Materials and Their Multimedia Narratives.   Intended Beneficiaries: the Local and Diasporic Hawai?ian Community and an International Audience, Who Will Benefit From Engaging With and Hearing the Stories of Objects From Hawai?ian Life and Culture.  Subrecipient Beneficiaries: This Project Will Subaward $65,251 for Consultant Services, Software Licenses, Adobe Subscriptions, and Cultureconnect Fees. ]