Posted at 10:03 a.m., Tuesday, June 26, 2007
OHA grants $80,000 to Hawaiian newspaper project
Advertiser Staff
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs awarded Bishop Museum a grant for $80,000 to benefit the Hoolaupai: Hawaiian Newspaper Resource Project, which makes pages from early Hawaiian language newspapers available on the Internet.The project focuses on use of the internet, as well as digital and optical character recognition technology to present pages of Hawaiian newspapers that can be searched by key words and phrases. The result is an offering of thousands of pages of Hawaiian text.
Information: http://www.nupepa.org or Kaui Sai-Dudoit, 255-3206 or ksaidudoit@bishopmuseum.org.
