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+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!