Hawaiian Language Newspaper Typing Effort Ends

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Here’s an update from the Associated Press:

A volunteer effort to type thousands of pages of Hawaiian-language newspapers has ended, but organizers hope the project can move forward in preserving the language and culture.

Ike Kuokoa is an initiative to make Hawaiian-language newspapers searchable online using thousands of volunteer typists to transcribe 60,000 digitally scanned pages in eight months.

Read the full story.

Nanea Kalani wrote for Civil Beat about her experience transcribing the pages:

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