MAY 1999

3-5 -- Project participants registered and paid to attend OCLC seminar &Using Metadata for Knowledge Management&- but CANCELLED by OCLC in late April

10 -- first batch of first newspaper (Ka Leo o ka Lahui) scanned and mounted

17-21 -- Hamilton Library Computer Specialist attends Sun OS training funded by IMLS

JUNE 1999

1 -- LIS interns begin work; HWRD will require input of data transcribed from labels on archive photos (6 boxes total), TTP will require verification of approx. 9,000 photos, conversion of data from 1,200 records from MARC records to web forms

3 -- Ka Leo o ka Lahui up to Buke 2, Helu 104, Ianuari 9, 1892. Student reports: I've had to go back and reshoot a couple of pages that, for some reason, had their right edge cropped off. Some of the pages are coming through extremely dirty (which accounts for the slowness)

3 -- PC connected to microfilm scanner begins to display hardware/software problems (Windows errors, crashes, etc.)

7 -- Hired 2nd graduate student to be Unix System admin for IMLS

10-14 -- all files moved from former image server seed grant location to IMLS server; all HTML files updated with new URL locations

18 -- Access count on the old page was 5392 before switch to new server (that counter incremented every time page reloaded) The count to date on the new server is 461.

21 -- Fatal errors continue on microfilm scanner PC

22 -- Ka Leo o Ka Lahui mounted through Buke 2, Helu 118; Ianuari 29, 1892.

24 -- about 1, 800 TTP photos checked for accuracy and quality

JULY 1999

2 -- Student reports: &have completed up to WR#290. It's slow going sometimes when there is a lot of information on the back of the photos.&

9 -- Student completes through HWR#390; pre-existing TTP-related web files moved from the campus Unix server to IMLS server

12 -- pre-existing HWRD-related web files moved from the campus Unix server to IMLS server

16 -- Statistics reported to Hawaiian/Pacific collection for departmental annual report: 2 newspaper titles are partially completed: Ka Leo o ka Lahui, 1889-1896 = 799 files to date, of which 590 are &raw tiff& files that are being processed.  Ka Makaainana, 1887-1899 = 946 files (issues up to 1894 are on the web page). Ka Leo is being worked on at present funded by IMLS. The portion of Ka Makaainana that is available was done by a LIS intern during Spring semester. There are 965 files in the HWRD section, which EXCLUDES the files related to the 442 Timeline. The new files are scanned photos from the IMLS project and related files.

20 -- HP Scanner software becomes (apparently) corrupted and scanner will not run on the PC to which it is connected

23 -- HP Scanner de-installed from PC#1 and reinstalled on PC#3 to test whether problem is software or hardware related. Scanner works fine on PC#3. Uninstalls, Disk Doctor and ScanDisk programs run repeated on PC#1.

27 -- online survey form modified to include posting of IP address as default value into each submission

AUGUST 1999

2 -- More Disk Doctor and ScanDisk runs repeated on PC#1; memory and save cache settings adjusted for Windows and Paintshop Pro software in order to try to minimize fatal error and general protect fault error messages

4 -- Buke 2, Helu 150, Maraki 16, 1892 mounted. Student reports: &The last couple and the next couple were really bad on the microfilm, so they'll likely be awhile in mounting.&

9 -- University of Hawaii at Manoa selected to receive supplemental funding in the amount of $10,000 to be used for travel to enable grantees to share their acquired knowledge with others and, as appropriate, to learn from others

23 -- Web server statistics compiled for the first time (see attached)

27 -- Fall semester LIS intern (paid and for-credit) begins work continuing scanning of Ka Makaainana newspaper reels

SEPTEMBER 1999

3 -- HP Scanner returned to PC#1, reinstalled software; setup works again

8-10 -- Project participant, Jim Cartwright (University Archivist) attends OCLC seminar &Using Metadata for Knowledge Management& (see attached email report)

15 -- Access count to date on the new server is 461.

16 -- Link to Bishop Museum (NEH funded) newspaper index web site added to main Hawaiian Newspaper Digitizing page and also on the Ka Lama Hawaii main page http://libweb.hawaii.edu/digicoll/lama_hawaii/lama_htm/lama.htm; it is the only newspaper in the Bishop Museum index that overlaps with what we have scanned.

17 -- CANCELLATION NOTICE: October 11-13, 1999 Metadata Seminar; Project participant Martha Chantiny (Systems Librarian) unable to attend October seminar as scheduled

Completed and mounted files:

Newspaper scanning: Ka Lahui 345 gifs; Ka Makaainana 478 gifs,493 htms
HWRD: 802 gifs, 12 htms