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Ulukau
The Hawaiian
Electronic Library
www.ulukau.org/
Shavonn Matsuda
Assignment 3
LIS 610 / Fall 2013 / Asato

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Basic background on Ulukau
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A digital library of Hawaiian resources
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Established in 2004 (Redesigned 2009)
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A collaboration by numerous organizations
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Native Hawaiian Library, ALU LIKE, Inc.
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Administration for Native Americans (ANA)
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Hawai‘i Department of Education
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Ka Haka ‘Ula O Ke‘elikōlaniCenter for Hawaiian Language, UH Hilo
And more…
Uses open source Greenstone digital library software

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Challenges
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Very large amount of text per page
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Poor image quality
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Lack of computer software support for Hawaiian
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Reconfigured OCR program

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Encouraging the use of Hawaiian
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Increased access to Hawaiian resources
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Access available in English, Hawaiian, or both
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Default language setting set to Hawaiian
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Most content is available only in Hawaiian

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Hawaiian LIS
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Promotes use of Hawaiian
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Promotes document retrieval in Hawaiian
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Support Hawaiian education and language revitalization
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An example for other indigenous and minority languages
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User-centered information delivery in native language
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Multilingual access

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Mahalo!