Integrating Research and Collections Management: The Ho'omaka Hou Research Initiative at the Bishop Museum.

The Ho'omaka Hou Research Initiative is a collaborative research endeavor that is primarily focused on the analysis of the Bishop Museum's Archaeology Collections. The goal of Ho'omaka Hou (which literally means "to begin again") is to encourage continued work with these invaluable museum collections, and to bring together researchers and students with various research interests in order to learn more about the past. In addition to conducting research on museum collections using the most up-to-date methods in the field of archaeology, we are building a digital inventory of the collections. This integrated approach highlights the relevance of archaeological collections housed in museums for informing researchers about the past, and also emphasizes the need for modernizing digital inventories to safeguard these collections for the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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