Adaptability
The goals of this project for both the Trust Territory of
the Pacific Islands Photo Collection and digitized images
of Hawaiian Language Newspapers on microfilm will provide
an opportunity to review past practices and models for making
image data available in digital format and to identify means
to migrate from proprietary systems/formats to more common
standards with the least amount of duplication of effort.
Information
gained will include sharing and comparing methodologies and
outcomes with other institutions currently engaged in similar
projects (e.g. image files from the microfiche "Niupepa 1842-1933"
collection produced by the Alexander Turnbull Library as a
part of the New Zealand Digital Library at the University
of Waikato or the pilot project to digitize newspapers from
the French Revolution of 1848 as a test of electronic distribution
of archive material via Internet, which involves the Center
for Research Libraries and ARTFL (American and French Research
on the Treasury of the French Language) a cooperative project
of the Institut National de la Langue Francaise (INaLF) of
the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and
the Divisions of the Humanities and Social Sciences of the
University of Chicago).
This project will create alternative forms of unique library
resources, thereby both preserving them and also making them
accessible to the broader community of scholars, researchers
and students. The project will provide an opportunity for
both the UHM Library and the Library and Information Studies
Program to explore and address issues involved in the construction
of operational digital libraries in an academic environment.
As
significant quantities of material, formerly available only
in a restricted framework of time and space, are made available
via the World Wide Web there will be opportunities for study
of information access patterns in order to improve the usability
of the digital collections. The
project will provide a foundation for future examination,
experimentation with and teaching of the construction of usable
indexing for digital collections. As the collections grow,
they may be used in Library and Information Studies as working
models in which to create meta-information environments, research
and understand issues of metadata quality and content standards
and to study the effects of interface design. Back
to top | ![[ IMLS Logo ]](../../images/IMLSlogo.gif)
