Sydney Shep ; Marcus Frean ; Rhys Owen ; Rere-No-A-Rangi Pope ; Pikihuia Reihana et al. - Indigenous frameworks for data-intensive humanities: recalibrating the past through knowledge engineering and generative modelling.

jdmdh:6095 - Journal of Data Mining & Digital Humanities, January 8, 2021, HistoInformatics - https://doi.org/10.46298/jdmdh.6095
Indigenous frameworks for data-intensive humanities: recalibrating the past through knowledge engineering and generative modelling.Article

Authors: Sydney Shep 1; Marcus Frean 1; Rhys Owen ORCID1; Rere-No-A-Rangi Pope ORCID1; Pikihuia Reihana 1; Valerie Chan 1

Identifying, contacting and engaging missing shareholders constitutes an enormous challenge for Māori incorporations, iwi and hapū across Aotearoa New Zealand. Without accurate data or tools to har-monise existing fragmented or conflicting data sources, issues around land succession, opportunities for economic development, and maintenance of whānau relationships are all negatively impacted. This unique three-way research collaboration between Victoria University of Wellington (VUW), Parininihi ki Waitotara Incorporation (PKW), and University of Auckland funded by the National Science Challenge | Science for Technological Innovation catalyses innovation through new digital humanities-inflected data science modelling and analytics with the kaupapa of reconnecting missing Māori shareholders for a prosperous economic, cultural, and socially revitalised future. This paper provides an overview of VUW's culturally-embedded social network approach to the project, discusses the challenges of working within an indigenous worldview, and emphasises the importance of decolonising digital humanities.


Volume: HistoInformatics
Section: HistoInformatics
Published on: January 8, 2021
Accepted on: July 3, 2020
Submitted on: February 12, 2020
Keywords: indigenous knowledge,semantic web,generative modelling,Bayesian record linkage,network analysis,[INFO.INFO-LG]Computer Science [cs]/Machine Learning [cs.LG],[SHS.HIST]Humanities and Social Sciences/History,[SHS.MUSEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Cultural heritage and museology

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