Acknowledgements
The authors thank Brad Sherman and Cynthia Riginos for encouragement to contribute this comment. Development of the Biocultural Label Initiative has been supported by Catalyst Seeding funds for the project ‘Te Tuākiri o te Tāonga: Recognizing Indigenous Interests in Genetic Resources’ provided by the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment and administered by the Royal Society Te Apārangi (19‐UOW‐008‐CSG to MH and JA), leveraging the existing Local Contexts (https://localcontexts.org/) platform supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PR 234372-16 and PE 263553-19 to JA) and the Institute of Museums and Library Services in the US (RE-246475-OLS-20 to JA), New York University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the University of Waikato. Continuing infrastructure development is supported through ENRICH – Equity for Indigenous Research and Innovation Co-ordinating Hub based at New York University and University of Waikato (https://www.enrich-hub.org/). The Biocultural Label Initiative is extended through use-cases, supported and refined by the Aotearoa Biocultural Label Working Group, FOMA Innovation (https://www.foma.org.nz/), Te Mana Rauranga (https://www.temanararaunga.maori.nz/), Genomics Aotearoa (https://www.genomics-aotearoa.org.nz/), Indigenous Design and Innovation Aotearoa (https://www.idia.nz/), the Genomics Observatories Metadatabase (https://geome-db.org/), the Ira Moana – Genes of the Sea – Project (www.massey.ac.nz/iramoana, supported by Catalyst Seeding funds provided by the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment and administered by the Royal Society Te Apārangi, 17‐MAU‐309‐CSG to LL), and a Massey University Research Fund to LL.