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Bilingual glossary
Two languages side by side, searchable, on the object label.
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Collections Online carries over a million records across Taonga Māori, Pacific Cultures, History, Photography, Art, Botany and Zoology, in a country with two official spoken languages.
https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/Glossary
On the label, both ways
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taongatreasureAnything prized. In a museum, the collection itself.
whakapapagenealogyLayered descent. It connects people, places and objects.
kaitiakiguardianThe one who holds responsibility for something's care.
tikangacorrect procedureThe right way to do a thing, in context.
maraemeeting groundThe communal ground and the buildings on it.
wharenuimeeting houseThe large carved house on a marae.
pounamugreenstoneNephrite jade from Te Waipounamu, the South Island.
tukutukulattice panelWoven panels set between the carvings inside a wharenui.
wakacanoeFrom a river canoe to an ocean-going vessel.
kōrerotalk, accountSpeech, discussion, or the story attached to an object.
Nothing matches. Try fewer letters.
Ten entries as a working demo. A real glossary is signed off by the
people whose language it is, not by the person who built the app.
Search is accent-insensitive, so korero finds kōrero from a keyboard that will not produce a macron. It runs client side over an index built at deploy, so it works with the phone in aeroplane mode in the middle of a gallery.