List the name, background/qualifications and institutional affiliation of the main person(s) who will conduct the preservation activities.
Martha Chantiny, Information Technology & Digital Support Librarian
Desktop Network Services
University of Hawai'i at Manoa Hamilton Library
Dore Minatodani
Hawaiian Collection/Special Collections
University of Hawai'i at Manoa Hamilton Library
Noenoe K. Silva, Assistant Professor
Political Science
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Martha Chantiny currently heads the UHM Library's Desktop Network Services department, which administers computer resources in all public and staff areas of UHM Hamilton and Sinclair Libraries, and which oversees work on the Library's webpages. Ms. Chantiny is a former systems librarian, and has led or has had substantial involvement in almost all of the Library's Special Collections department's digitizing projects, including the Hawaiian Collection's Hawaiian language newspaper digitizing project, the first of its kind in Hawai'i. As the leader of the current project, she designs the workflow and templates for the digitizing, hires and supervises the student assistants working on the project, and designs and maintains the project's webpages.
Dore Minatodani is a librarian with the Hawaiian Collection in the UHM Library's Special Collections department. This department serves as the Library's main reference point for research and inquiries related to Hawaiian and Pacific studies and related disciplines and topics, for both on-campus and off-campus library users. Ms. Minatodani has worked in both public academic and private non-academic libraries. In this project, she serves as selector of materials to be digitized, as consultant for design and usability of the web and CD-ROM versions of the materials, and is designing and coordinating the CD-ROM portion of the project.
3a. List the name, discipline and institutional affiliation of the main person(s) who will review the resources being preserved and provide the humanities context for these resources. Explain fully the role which the humanities scholar(s) will play in the project.
Noenoe K. Silva, Assistant Professor
Political Science
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Noenoe K. Silva teaches in the UHM Political Science and Hawaiian Language departments. It is upon her research that the selection of the annexation theme of the materials is based. While her work and teaching is done in the field of political science, Dr. Silva's research is based in historical analysis of Hawaiian language texts. Dr. Silva is committed to making her research accessible and understandable to the general public and frequently addresses non-academic audiences on her research and related topics. She serves as consultant on the selection of materials to be digitized, regularly reviews the web site development, and provides the written materials that will be offered along with the digitized materials.
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