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 The new and changed headings from the Huitanguru/Pēpuere/February Te Whakakaokao/Māori Metadata Working Group hui of 2021 are now available for use on the National Library website.

Tukua mai ōu whakaaro mō ngā ingoa me tāpiri anō ki te paetukutuku! We’d love some requests for new terms!

As always we'd like to hear any new suggestions you may have for the rōpū (group) to consider. It's a really easy process: if you're handling a collection item that is either in te reo Māori or has content about Māori, and you can't find an existing term in our thesaurus to suit your item, please email reo@dia.govt.nz with your suggestion and the details of what you were working on. Suggestions where you don't know a Māori term are just fine. Our next hui will be 3-4 June, so this is the perfect time to send in proposals for new terms!

He ao te rangi ka uhia, mā te huruhuru te manu ka rere.

Ngā kaupapa hou / New terms

Hononga hāngai – Effective engagement

Kaimātai pūtaiao - Scientists

Kiriata poto – Short films

Marae ā-kura – School-based marae

Mātau ā-wheako – Lived experiences

Mate hūkiki - Epilepsy

Ngā hara a Riri – War crimes

Pou whenua – Boundary markers

Puritanga ākonga – Student retention

Tirohanga Māori – Māori perspectives

Toi puni – Installation art

Whare rūnanga – Meeting houses

More information about new and changed terms

Much of Te Whakakaokao’s recent work has focused on resolving long-standing requests that required further research.

The group has created a number of terms that may be useful in the context of educational resources. Marae ā-kura describes marae that are sited at mainstream schools and provide opportunities for staff, students and whānau to 'live as Māori' within a mainstream schooling context. Puritanga ākonga may be used to describe resources about student retention.

Other new terms may be relevant when describing the process or results of research. Tirohanga Māori has been added to convey Māori viewpoints or perspectives while Mātau ā-wheako may be applied to resources exploring lived experiences.

A new term has been created for exhibitions of installation art, Toi puni. This fills a long-standing gap in Ngā Upoko Tukutuku as the existing term for art exhibitions, Whakaturanga toi ataata, specifically excludes installations. Also in the field of artistic creation, Te Whakakaokao has created a term for short films, Kiriata poto.

The group has received several requests relating to the concept of ‘engagement’. The term ‘Hononga hāngai’ has now been added to Ngā Upoko Tukutuku to convey the concept of effective engagement in the context of an equal partnership between peoples and institutions.

Other new terms include Pou whenua (Boundary markers), posts which are placed prominently in the ground to mark possession of an area or jurisdiction over it. The term Whare rūnanga, or meeting houses, may be applied in contexts where a whare rūnanga structure has been specifically identified.

Finally, Te Whakakaokao has begun to review terms and definitions relating to disability and special education. We have made some changes to the scope notes for Hauā and Hauātanga so that these are defined more appropriately and are discussing further changes.

 Nā ngā kaimahi o Te Whakakaokao