Student Equity, Excellence, and Diversity

Digitizing Hawaiian Language Newspapers to Promote
Wider Use via the World Wide Web

Continuation of Project

Ongoing work that remains unfinished includes completion of the final processing and mounting of the scanned images from the single unfinished title, Ka Lanakila; creation of fuller 'indexing' and the addition of 'metadata tags' 2 to the HTML documents. Completion of the scanning, processing and creation of PDF files for the selected stories as well as OCR 3 of image files still needs to be carried out.

In April 1998, a grant request was submitted to the first ever Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grant competition in the hopes of receiving a little over $100,000 in funding.

The Library asked to be considered in two of the 4 competition categories:

• Research and demonstration projects that emphasize access to improved library and information resources.
• Projects that preserve unique library resources useful for the broader research community or that address the challenges of preserving and archiving digital materials.

Sixty-six proposals were received by IMLS in the first category, with requests totaling: $10,330,723. Sixty-five proposals were received in the second category, with requests totaling: $8,758,224. In mid-September, IMLS will announce the results of the competition for nearly $6,500,000 to libraries and library/museum collaboratives. If this grant is awarded to the University of Hawaii, a portion of the funds will be used to continue digitizing and processing Hawaiian language newspapers. The grant request proposes to buy the microfilm scanning equipment which was leased in Phase I of our SEED grant and to digitize an additional 9-13 titles.

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