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PRDLA Collaborative Digitization Project Report
Oceania Digital Libraries (ODiL) Project
University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM)
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Martha Chantiny Head, Desktop Network
Services and Acting Division Head for Library
Information Technology Hamilton
Library University of Hawaii at
Manoa http//library.manoa.hawaii.edu chantiny_at_haw
aii.edu
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Project Scope Proposal delivered to 2007 PRDLA
Meeting 17-20 October in Berkeley, California

• To create a digital library focused on the
  culture heritage of the indigenous peoples of
  the Oceania region
• To create a centralised metadata repository
  through harvesting partner collections, to
  enhance resource discovery
• To actively seek out funding for digitisation
  programs across partner institutions
• To investigate preservation issues around
  cultural treasures

• Next steps if approved
• Project web site
• Joint funding application
• Digitisation program at each site focusing on
  images, theses and journals

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Pacific-Related Digital Image Collections at the
UHM
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Several UHM Library collections are listed on the
demo ODiL sitehttp//www.oceania-digital-library
.org/
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First steps towards creating a centralised
metadata repository through harvesting partner
collections

• Steve Thomas Traditional Micronesian Navigation
  Collection and
• TRAIL-Technical Report Archive and Image Library
  successfully harvested by the PRDLA Archive in
  mid-June 2007
• Hawai'i War Records - U.S. Army Signal Corps
  Photographs shortly thereafter
• Save Our Surf (SOS) collection harvested in
  mid-July 2007

PRDLA Archive as of 10/10/08 http//prdlaarchive.l
ib.hku.hk/collection/University20of20Hawaii20at
20Manoa20Libraries
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UHM proposed collections - focused on the culture
heritage of indigenous peoples of the Oceania
region
Images

• Margo Duggan Collection - slides of Micronesia
  just after WWII
• George Grace Melanesia slides from 1956/57

Text

• Hawaiian Historical Society Journal (to
  complement U of Auckland work making the Journal
  of the Polynesian Society available)
• Dissertations on Hawaii and Pacific subjects

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http//digicoll.manoa.hawaii.edu/duggan

• December 2007 2 students hired with Center for
  Pacific Island Studies funds to work approx. 20
  hours per week on the Duggan slide collection
• By mid-April 2008 1,075 slides had been added to
  the site database
• and Pacific librarians
• began QA of images
• and fine tuning
• of the site

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• In March 2008 the student who had worked on the
  Duggan site began scanning slides and text for
  the George Grace Collection
• At that time the Pacific Collection reported
• we've been getting a lot of very positive
  feedback on the digitization projects of late,
  both within our own library and academic
  communities and (more importantly to me, anyway)
  from the people who are actually depicted in the
  collections. (Because we've enabled the comments
  function in the Thomas site, we're getting
  feedback from people who are themselves pictured
  on the site ... to a person, they've been very
  excited about what they're seeing)

http//digicoll.manoa.hawaii.edu/grace
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Trust Territory Archives Photographs
http//libweb.hawaii.edu/digicoll/ttp/ttpi.html
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Trust Territory of the PacificImage Collection

• http//128.171.57.25/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?siteloc
  alhostappaboutcttplenwutf-8

Conversion from flat HTML is done, but fine
tuning of metadata for OAI harvesting and
customizing of the interface still needs to be
done
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http//www.hawaiianhistory.org/

• The Hawaiian Journal of History
• Since 1967 The Hawaiian Journal of History has
  been issued annually includes articles on
  Hawaii and the Pacific area, research notes,
  book reviews, and an annual bibliography.
• Papers
• Between 1892 and 1940, the Society published
  twenty-one numbers in its Papers series devoted
  to scholarly articles, genealogy and reprints
  from early sources.
• Annual Reports
• From 1892 to 1967, the Annual Reports of the
  Hawaiian Historical Society included papers
  presented to the Society pertaining to the
  history of Hawaii, Polynesia, and the Pacific
  area. They are the predecessor to The Hawaiian
  Journal of History.

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Memorandum of Understanding

• In November 2007 the Curator of the Librarys
  Hawaiian Collection consulted with the
  Administrative Director and Librarian of the
  Hawaiian Historical Society and determined that
• Authors sign a release that grants to the Society
  "full and exclusive" right to publish or cause to
  publish in all formats...
• And that the Society would also like to digitize
  - their annual reports - papers - index to the
  reports and papers- cumulated index to the
  Journal

Over the next 3 months a draft of a Memorandum of
Understanding was created and by May 2008 had
been approved and signed by the Board of
Directors of the Society and the Interim
University Librarian at the UHM Library then
forwarded to the Secretariat for PRDLA.
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RFQ issued to 6 vendors
Distributed mid-August with 15 September 2008
reply deadline Scope scan, create TIFs and PDFs,
provide metadata for 3 titlesapprox. 15,500
pages (4,900 Annual reports Occasional
papers, 200 reprints, remainder Journal)
10 representative sample pages (either the same
or similar) from duplicate copies of the Journal
were supplied to each potential bidding vendor
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ScholarSpace Community Collections
http//scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/
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Dissertations

• With the support of the Dean of the Graduate
  Division, the Vice Chancellor for Research
  Graduate Education has approved the library
  proposal for, and committed funds in the amount
  of 29,664.00, to create digital copies in PDF of
  1,648 UHM dissertations currently held in
  microformat covering the years 1960-1996
• Procurement documents have been completed by the
  Library and sent to the campus Fiscal Office for
  processing

• When the digital files are created, a copy of
  each will be submitted to the library
  institutional repository ScholarSpace

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Pacific and Pacific Rim-Related Dissertations
will be digitized

• Beyond the beach Periplean frontiers of Pacific
  Islanders aboard Euroamerican ships, 1768-1887
  by Chappell, David Arthur, Ph.D., University of
  Hawai'i, 1991, 524 pages AAT 9205856
• The Significance Of Ryukyu In Satsuma Finances
  During The Tokugawa Period by Sakihara, Mitsugu,
  Ph.D., University of Hawai'i, 1971, 327 pages
  AAT 7210159
• Toward A Coming Of Age For Samoa A Structural
  Perspective On Samoa's Neo-Traditionalist
  Development Strategy by Nakata, Katherine
  Toshiko, Ph.D., University of Hawai'i, 1981 AAT
  0537548
• Making History The Creation Of Traditional
  Knowledge On Pukapuka, A Polynesian Atoll by
  Borofsky, Robert Alan, Ph.D., University of
  Hawai'i, 1982, 290 pages AAT 8313517
• Upon A Stone Altar A History Of The Island Of
  Ponape From The Beginnings Of Foreign Contact To
  1890 (Caroline Islands, Micronesia) by Hanlon,
  David L., Ph.D., University of Hawai'i, 1984, 449
  pages AAT 8508777
• Mo'olelo kaukau ali'i The dynamics of chiefly
  service and identity in'Oiwi society by Young,
  George Terry, Ph.D., University of Hawai'i, 1995,
  381 pages AAT 9532640

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OAI Harvesting

• ROAR (Registry of Open Access Repositories)

When the Hawaiian Historical Society material is
added to our institutional repository
ScholarSpace it will be harvested by ROAR and
OAIster
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OAI Harvesting

• OAIster
• PRDLA

http//www.oaister.org/
http//prdlaarchive.lib.hku.hk/
Will harvest relevant image collections from UHM
Streetprint sites and TTP Archives from UHM
Greenstone database
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Onward
http//www.oceania-digital-library.org/
Questions? Comments?
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