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The new and changed headings from the Pipiri/Hune/June Te Whakakaokao/Māori Subject Headings Working Group hui of 2019 are now available for use on the National Library website. As usual, files are also available for download to update copies in local systems.

Tukua mai he tono kia waihangatia ai he upoko hōu! 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.

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

Ngā kaupapa hou / New terms

Auahatanga – Creativity, innovation
Kōkiri - Advocacy

Mātātoka - Fossils

Mātauranga mātātoka - Palaeontology

Punua – Young animals, including birds, fish and marine mammals

Reo ōpaki – Informal language

Tārai waka – Waka building

Tauaro - Opposites

Waro (Pūmotu) - Carbon

Whakamoemiti – Gratitude, thankfulness, thanksgiving

Recent Changes

The hierarchy of terms relating to biology and the natural world has been significantly revised and clarified. Pūpū (Molluscs), Tio (Oysters) and Tipa (Scallops) are now Heke (narrower terms) of Ngā uri o Tangaroa (Marine life), and many terms relating to living organisms have been shifted from Pūtaiao (Science) to the more appropriate term of Koiora (Biology).

There are a number of new concepts relating to the environment, living organisms and science. These include: Mātauranga mātātoka (Palaeontology), Mātātoka (Fossils), and a term for carbon, Waro (Pūmotu). The last may be especially useful when describing resources that relate to greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.

A number of terms have been created that may be useful when describing resources for children. These include Tauaro (Opposites), Whakamoemiti (Gratitude), and Punua (Young animals). A new term has been added to describe informal language, Reo ōpaki.

Concepts in the domain of economic and political development have been developed further. There is a new term, Kōkiri, which may be used for advocacy, and the term Auahatanga has been created to convey innovation and creativity. A new English see reference guides users from Equality to Mana tangata (Achieved status). The term Ōhanga whanaketanga (Economic development) has been updated to make it clear that it also encompasses the concept of Risk management.

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