Hawaiian-language Newspaper Resources
The Bishop Museum has recently been invloved with two efforts to preserve the legacy of the Hawaiian-language newspapers that flourished throughout the islands for more than a century.
Dozens of newspapers were published in Hawaiian between 1834 and 1949 and were read by an avid and highly literate public.
For years, Hawaiian language newspapers languished in archives like thise of Bishop Museum. Ho‘olaupa‘i is an ambitious attempt to bring these newspapers accessible to the public through the use of modern technology.
The newspaper pages are individually digitally scanned. The next step is OCR, or optical character recognition, which produces searchable text files from the scanned images. After being reviewed by experts, these files are uploaded to www.nupepa.org, where they can be explored by interested people all over the world.
Ho‘olaupa‘i (left)
is a cooperative project between Alu Like,
Hale Kuamo‘o, and the Bishop Museum.
Ho‘olaupa‘i maintains hundreds of pages of scanned newspapers including articles, headlines and even advertisements.
The Hawaiian
Language Newspaper Index (right) is
a searchable database of with translations
of text from five of the leading
Hawaiian-language newspapers.
Ho‘olaupa‘i: Hawaiian Newspaper Resource
Primary
Contact Information:
1525 Bernice St
Honolulu, HI 96817
808.847.8282
Ho‘olaupa‘i is also made possible with the kind and generous support of the following organizations:
- Marti and Dwayne Steele Fund (Hawaii Community Foundation)
- Harold K. L. Castle Foundation
- Native Hawaiian Cultural & Arts Program
- Hawaii State Foundation for Culture and Arts
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