Data Findability, Governance, and Community Engagement for Māori Research Data Sovereignty

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arXiv
Published
9 Aug 2026
Authors
Paul T. Brown, Kiri West, Maree Sheehan, Hana Rapata, Te Taka Keegan

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Māori data sovereignty (MDSov) has established important principles for recognising Māori rights and interests in data. Relatively little attention has been given to how these principles can be operationalised within research institutions who, as a function of their operations, collect and use Māori data. This paper introduces the concept of Māori Research Data Sovereignty (MRDSov), extending existing understandings of MDSov into the specific context of research data and the research data lifecycle. Drawing on Indigenous Data Sovereignty scholarship and research data management literature, we…

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