{"id":313,"date":"2022-06-24T13:40:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T23:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/kawaihapai\/?p=313"},"modified":"2022-06-30T14:52:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T00:52:53","slug":"thinking-visually-building-systems-through-revision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/kawaihapai\/thinking-visually-building-systems-through-revision\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking visually: Building systems through [re]vision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Knowledge, especially the sorts of knowledge represented in cataloging and metadata systems, is often abstract. This abstraction can make it difficult to build a common understanding. My role on this team is to take abstract systems and create models to help ground abstract discussions by providing a common (visual) focus. While these visualizations are flawed and incomplete, their very incompleteness can be a tool for developing a more refined system of knowledge organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is an early visualization of \u02bb\u0101ina structure, showing the relationship between different \u02bb\u0101ina divisions, other beings and subjects associated with individual \u02bb\u0101ina, and the features that \u02bb\u0101ina can have. This visualization was based on initial discussions of the important relationships our Knowledge Organization System needs to capture, as well as the important features of \u02bb\u0101ina that need to be recorded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"610\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/kawaihapai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/06\/Round-2-\u02bbaina_vis-v11-1024x610.png\" alt=\"Early \u02bb\u0100ina Schema Visualization\" class=\"wp-image-314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/kawaihapai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/06\/Round-2-\u02bbaina_vis-v11-1024x610.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/kawaihapai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/06\/Round-2-\u02bbaina_vis-v11-300x179.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/kawaihapai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/06\/Round-2-\u02bbaina_vis-v11-768x457.png 768w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/kawaihapai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/06\/Round-2-\u02bbaina_vis-v11.png 1359w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Early \u02bb\u0100ina Schema Visualization<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While this visualization is useful as far as it goes, it has some pretty major issues. The list of subjects that can be associated with \u02bb\u0101ina is incomplete. For example, it omits things like \u02bboihana (occupations, trades, or cultural practices) that might be associated with a specific place, and it treats k\u0101naka as isolated individuals who only ever have an individual (not a collective) relationship with \u02bb\u0101ina. Similarly, the list of features that \u02bb\u0101ina can have is incomplete. It doesn\u2019t include features like Wahi Pana (notable places), Ua (named rains), or the location of Heiau. &nbsp; Additionally, this list of features makes no distinction between features that an \u02bb\u0101ina can have and those it must have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using the flaws in visualization as a springboard, we created a revised visualization of \u02bb\u0101ina and its features and relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/kawaihapai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/06\/Round-2-\u02bbaina_vis-v3-1-1024x491.png\" alt=\"More Refined \u02bb\u0100ina Schema Visualization\" class=\"wp-image-316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/kawaihapai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/06\/Round-2-\u02bbaina_vis-v3-1-1024x491.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/kawaihapai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/06\/Round-2-\u02bbaina_vis-v3-1-300x144.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/kawaihapai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/06\/Round-2-\u02bbaina_vis-v3-1-768x368.png 768w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/kawaihapai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/06\/Round-2-\u02bbaina_vis-v3-1-1536x737.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/kawaihapai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/06\/Round-2-\u02bbaina_vis-v3-1.png 1806w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>More Refined \u02bb\u0100ina Schema Visualization<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This visualization is better, and fixes many of the flaws with the initial visualization. It\u02bbs still far from perfect; it doesn\u2019t show the complex and varied relationships K\u0101naka can have to \u2018\u0101ina, it removes the levels of land division for the sake of simplicity, and it still lacks both needed associations and features. These visualizations are always incomplete and cannot capture the complexity of Hawaiian knowledge. However their very incompleteness can be a tool for understanding. Exploring the gaps and inconsistencies within these visualizations can help build a shared interpretation of abstract concepts, which in turn leads to better visualizations which can be used to further clarify our understandings.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knowledge, especially the sorts of knowledge represented in cataloging and metadata systems, is often abstract. This abstraction can make it difficult to build a common understanding. 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