ABSTRACT

Description of project:

The University of Hawaii at Manoa Library will partner with the Hawaii State Public Library System and the Hawaii State Archives to digitize (scan, convert to text, and mark-up) and submit to the Library of Congress National Digital Newspaper Project important English language newspapers that have historically provided statewide (and prior to annexation to the United States, country wide) coverage and which have had significant influence on the archipelago.

An Advisory Board of experts and historians will review a history of Hawai‘i newspapers, and make a final selection of newspapers to include in the NDNP project. The collections of state newspapers that are the focus of this project were identified by the Hawaii Newspaper Project conducted in the 1980s, which completed a comprehensive inventory of all newspapers published in Hawai‘i and locations of collections. The project also microfilmed and cataloged those titles identified as important and endangered.

The project is expected to cover approximately 100,000 microfilmed newspaper pages for the Honolulu Advertiser and for the precursors to the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and may include other titles which had shorter publication runs during the 1880-1922 time period. Digitization is to Library of Congress specification for the project.

Deliverables will include: Structural metadata for issues/editions digitized and organized by date and structural metadata to relate pages to title, date, and edition, sequence pages within issue or section; and to identify image and OCR files Grayscale page images at 300-400 dpi, in uncompressed TIFF 6.0 and JPEG2000 formats Validated OCR text files with bounding-box coordinates and PDF Image with hidden text, with text and image correlated Validated metadata using METS in accordance with guidelines and technical metadata to support the functions of a trusted repository

Principle activities include: selection for digitization; vended digitization and OCR text conversion; inspection and shipment of deliverables to the Library of Congress, creation of web site documenting project and providing local access. Additional activities include: tracking; creation of history and significance essays; and quality control.