Data Sovereignty Meets Open Access - Insights For Research Data Management Support At Uh Mānoa

Recent funder and publisher data sharing mandates emphasize openness, including public access, the FAIR principles, and broad reuse to accelerate science and impact. Yet, data sharing and openness is not straightforward for research involving Indigenous or aboriginal communities. At the University of Hawai'i Mānoa (UH Mānoa), researchers working with Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities often navigate different expectations around data sharing such as community consent, restricted access, and data sovereignty rooted in CARE principles. Challenges are compounded given nascent UH Mānoa data support services which are spread across the university.

UH Mānoa's strategic plan commits the university to being a Native Hawaiian place of learning. As the library develops research data services, understanding the experiences of researchers working with Native Hawaiian knowledge and data is essential. To learn more, UH Mānoa joined the Realities of Academic Data Sharing (RADS) initiative, a 12-institution study examining how institutions support research data management and sharing, with added specific questions focused on Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander data within the UH context.

This presentation will share survey and interview findings from UH Mānoa researchers and administrators, and discuss what the library is learning about supporting data management and sharing involving Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander data.