+Ulukau The Hawaiian Electronic Library

www.ulukau.org/

Shavonn MatsudaAssignment 3LIS 610 / Fall 2013 / Asato

+Basic background on Ulukau

A digital library of Hawaiian resources Established in 2004 (Redesigned 2009) A collaboration by numerous organizations

Ka Haka ‘Ula O Ke‘elikōlani Center for Hawaiian Language, UH Hilo

Native Hawaiian Library, ALU LIKE, Inc. Administration for Native Americans (ANA) Hawai‘i Department of Education And more…

Uses open source Greenstone digital library software

+Challenges

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

Reconfigured OCR program

+Encouraging the use of Hawaiian Increased access to Hawaiian resources

Access available in English, Hawaiian, or both

Default language setting set to Hawaiian Most content is available only in Hawaiian

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+Hawaiian LIS

Promotes use of Hawaiian Promotes document retrieval in Hawaiian Support Hawaiian education and language

revitalization

An example for other indigenous and minority languages

User-centered information delivery in native language Multilingual access

+Mahalo!