Knowledge Space Spotlight
The Knowledge Space Spotlight features brief information on an information repository in or about Hawaiʻi. These "spotlights" may include information about the organization, its history and goals, and its contents and offerings. If you have any suggestions for our next spotlight or would like to volunteer to write a piece, please let us know!
November 2012
Ulukau: The Hawaiian Electronic Library
Article by Annemarie Aweau, Posted Nov. 8, 2012
"E like hoʻi me ka loaʻa honua mai o ka 'ʻike akua' i ke kanaka e noho ulukau ʻia ana, pēia hoʻi ka loaʻa o ka ʻike kūhohonu i ke kanaka nāna e hoʻoikaika ana i ka heluhelu i nā ʻōlelo o kēia papahana waihona puke uila.
Ulukau: In the same way that unexplained supernatural interpretive powers can be divinely given to a person, so knowledge and understanding can come to the person who makes the effort to read the language and words of this electronic library."
Ulukau.org is an expansive online information repository focused on Hawaiian materials. This electronic library is an extensive collection covering a range of topics and is subdivided by what they call “special features” or noii nowelo and books (na puke). The special features area gives users access to collections such as the Hoolaupai nupepa database (www.nupepa.org- covered last month by Koa), Hawaiian dictionaries (www.wehewehe.org -includes guides to place names here in Hawaii), the Mahele Database, Hawaiian Curriculum materials, Polynesian Voyaging Society archives (http://hookele.org/pagespvs/cgi-bin/pagespvs), Hawaiian Genealogical indexes, as well as quite a few others that span over many topics relevant to Hawaiian research. They are also continuing to add to the site with hopes of getting collections up for access including the Ka Leo Hawaii audio collection, modern data collections, more photographic collections, among others.
Their large book collection is subdivided first by fiction/non-fiction, then language (Hawaiian or English), and lastly audience (beginner, intermediate, general, reference). You can also browse all available items by title, alphabetically. They have digitized many things ranging from the children’s story of ‘Ai’ai to Kuykendall’s three volume set of Hawaiian Kingdom, to Gerrit P. Judd’s Anatomia written in the 19th century.
This repository is extremely useful for all types of research and access to Hawaiian topics and provides great groundwork for the possibilities of digitization projects for the future. Lastly, but quite significantly, this website can be navigated in either Hawaiian or English, and provides Hawaiian and English speakers opportunity to learn Hawaiian vocabulary in a modern context. To access this Hawaiian electronic library please visit www.ulukau.org.
Ulukau: In the same way that unexplained supernatural interpretive powers can be divinely given to a person, so knowledge and understanding can come to the person who makes the effort to read the language and words of this electronic library."
Ulukau.org is an expansive online information repository focused on Hawaiian materials. This electronic library is an extensive collection covering a range of topics and is subdivided by what they call “special features” or noii nowelo and books (na puke). The special features area gives users access to collections such as the Hoolaupai nupepa database (www.nupepa.org- covered last month by Koa), Hawaiian dictionaries (www.wehewehe.org -includes guides to place names here in Hawaii), the Mahele Database, Hawaiian Curriculum materials, Polynesian Voyaging Society archives (http://hookele.org/pagespvs/cgi-bin/pagespvs), Hawaiian Genealogical indexes, as well as quite a few others that span over many topics relevant to Hawaiian research. They are also continuing to add to the site with hopes of getting collections up for access including the Ka Leo Hawaii audio collection, modern data collections, more photographic collections, among others.
Their large book collection is subdivided first by fiction/non-fiction, then language (Hawaiian or English), and lastly audience (beginner, intermediate, general, reference). You can also browse all available items by title, alphabetically. They have digitized many things ranging from the children’s story of ‘Ai’ai to Kuykendall’s three volume set of Hawaiian Kingdom, to Gerrit P. Judd’s Anatomia written in the 19th century.
This repository is extremely useful for all types of research and access to Hawaiian topics and provides great groundwork for the possibilities of digitization projects for the future. Lastly, but quite significantly, this website can be navigated in either Hawaiian or English, and provides Hawaiian and English speakers opportunity to learn Hawaiian vocabulary in a modern context. To access this Hawaiian electronic library please visit www.ulukau.org.
October 2012
Hoʻolaupaʻi
Article by Koa Luke, Posted Oct. 16, 2012
October is archives month, therefore we thought it was a great opportunity to cover Ho‘olaupa‘i online database/archives of nupepa ‘Ōlelo Hawai‘i (Hawaiian Language newspapers). As the Hawaiian Kingdom took its place as one of the most literate nation states in the world; Hawaiians excelled in science, history, international politics, and other scholarly subjects. One of the vehicles Hawaiians used to express their opinions, pass on traditions, and tell history and stories were newspapers. Now that more Hawaiians and others are becoming fluent in ‘Ōlelo Hawai‘i, we are returning to these Hawaiian Language newspapers for primary resource material; because in the 20th century much of Hawai‘i’s history was written by non ‘Ōlelo Hawai‘i speakers.
Ho‘olaupa‘i is an important tool used by historians, cultural practitioners, students, teachers, and more. From his book, Mai Pa‘a I Ka Leo: Historical Voice In Hawaiian Primary Materials, looking Forward and Listening Back, Puakea Nogelmeier notes “Ho‘olaupa‘i means ‘to generate abundance, to reproduce.’ The project makes searchable text files from the Hawaiian newspapers, and is working to place the entire collection, in digital image and searchable text file, on the internet via a single computer database at www.nupepa.org” (Nogelmeier 160). The archive “is a collection of historic Hawaiian-language newspapers published between 1834 and 1948. The newspaper images can be retrieved by word search, title, or date. This project is built upon the pioneering work of the Māori Niupepa Collection of the University of Waikato in Hamilton, Aotearoa (New Zealand)” (Nupepa.org homepage).
Check out this amazing archive at: nupepa.org and for more information see Mai Pa‘a I Ka Leo: Historical Voice In Hawaiian Primary Materials, looking Forward and Listening Back by Puakea Nogelmeier.
Ho‘olaupa‘i is an important tool used by historians, cultural practitioners, students, teachers, and more. From his book, Mai Pa‘a I Ka Leo: Historical Voice In Hawaiian Primary Materials, looking Forward and Listening Back, Puakea Nogelmeier notes “Ho‘olaupa‘i means ‘to generate abundance, to reproduce.’ The project makes searchable text files from the Hawaiian newspapers, and is working to place the entire collection, in digital image and searchable text file, on the internet via a single computer database at www.nupepa.org” (Nogelmeier 160). The archive “is a collection of historic Hawaiian-language newspapers published between 1834 and 1948. The newspaper images can be retrieved by word search, title, or date. This project is built upon the pioneering work of the Māori Niupepa Collection of the University of Waikato in Hamilton, Aotearoa (New Zealand)” (Nupepa.org homepage).
Check out this amazing archive at: nupepa.org and for more information see Mai Pa‘a I Ka Leo: Historical Voice In Hawaiian Primary Materials, looking Forward and Listening Back by Puakea Nogelmeier.