Cultural permissions

You can set cultural permission levels for your objects.

Levels of cultural permission

There are five levels of cultural permission:

• Sacred / Tapu: High-level restrictions.
• Sensitive / Rahui: Medium-level restrictions.
• Awareness / Aukati: Low-level restrictions.
• Open access / Noa: No restrictions.
• Not assessed: The default setting. No data is stored in eHive.

How to set a cultural permission level

1. Go to the object record.
2. Under Cultural permissions, select Update.
3. Select a permission level.
4. Add any relevant notes up to 1,000 characters (or leave the notes field blank).
5. Under Cultural origin, select either Māori or No translation*.
6. Select Save.

*Let us know if you need the cultural permissions terms translated to another language.

Search tips

• Enter cultural_permissions_level: sensitive into the search field to find all objects that have a cultural permission of ‘sensitive’.
• Enter cultural_permissions_notes: photograph* into the search field to find all objects that have notes relating to photography.
• Enter cultural_origin: maori into the search field to find all objects that have a Māori cultural origin.