In this Lightning Talk Rhys Owen, Rere-No-A-Rangi Pope & Sydney Shep from Victoria University of Wellington and the University of Auckland discuss their collaboration to develop tools that help the Parihaka Papakāinga Trust connect with its shareholders and aid in their journey of discovery and connection through the use of Mātauranga Māori and data science.

They are using data from LINZ and Māori land online to reconstruct whakapapa, connect whānau to their whenua and recover old names to gain insight into how land ownership has changed over time. The development of Mahere, a tool to breathe life back into old maps, was also discussed. The project is funded under Article 2 of the Treaty and seeks to enhance metadata geospatial temporal capture annotations from the maps to increase its computational utility.

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