{"id":47955,"date":"2016-07-19T15:32:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T01:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=47955"},"modified":"2020-01-08T12:20:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T22:20:43","slug":"noaa-preserve-america-grant-for-online-hawaiian-newspaper-archive-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/07\/19\/noaa-preserve-america-grant-for-online-hawaiian-newspaper-archive-project\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration\">NOAA<\/abbr> Preserve America grant for online Hawaiian newspaper archive project"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_47958\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47958\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/manoa-ihlrt-students.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"393\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47958\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/manoa-ihlrt-students.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/manoa-ihlrt-students-260x165.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47958\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graduate students in the Institute of Hawaiian Language Research and Translation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"clear-photo\">Prior to the 1820&#8217;s and 1830&#8217;s, Native Hawaiians passed down stories, songs and cultural traditions orally from generation to generation. Beginning in 1834, the discussions and news began to be chronicled in more than 100 different Hawaiian language newspapers that ran for more than 114 years and produced nearly one million letter-sized pages of text.<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to make this invaluable resource available and accessible to the general public, <abbr title=\"National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration\">NOAA<\/abbr>&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/sanctuaries.noaa.gov\/about\/pacific.html\">Office of National Marine Sanctuaries Pacific Islands Region<\/a> (<abbr>ONMS\/PIR<\/abbr>) awarded <abbr>NOAA<\/abbr> <a href=\"http:\/\/preserveamerica.noaa.gov\/welcome.html\">Preserve America Initiative<\/a> Internal Funding to the Hawaiian language organization <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awaiaulu.org\/main\/index.php\">Awaiaulu<\/a> in partnership with the <a href=\"http:\/\/seagrant.soest.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Sea Grant Program<\/a> in 2015. Specifically, the project, Ka W&#257; Ma Mua, Ka W&#257; Ma Hope (Using the Past to Inform the Future: English Translation of Hawaiian Language Newspaper Accounts of Unusual Weather Events), focused on newspaper articles that highlighted weather and climate change in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>With support from <abbr title=\"Preserve America Initiative Internal Funding\">PAIFF<\/abbr>, <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Sea Grant <a href=\"http:\/\/ihlrt.seagrant.soest.hawaii.edu\/hna\">developed a website<\/a> that displays the original Hawaiian newspaper article and also the English language transcription. At this time there is no other academic resource available to the public that includes both the Hawaiian language text and the English transcription. Support of this online Hawaiian newspaper article archive led in part to the establishment of the new <a href=\"http:\/\/ihlrt.seagrant.soest.hawaii.edu\/\">Institute of Hawaiian Language Research and Translation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Related <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> News: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/06\/26\/institute-of-hawaiian-language-research-and-translation-opens-its-doors-to-the-public\/\">Institute of Hawaiian Language Research and Translation opens its doors to the public<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&ldquo;As part of a growing effort to reconnect historical knowledge, Ka W&#257; Ma Mua, Ka W&#257; Ma Hope provides an important bridge, introducing the extensive Hawaiian-language repository to researchers and scholars in many new fields,&rdquo; said Professor <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/hshk\/people\/marvin-puakea-nogelmeier\/\"><strong>Puakea Nogelmeier<\/strong><\/a> of the <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M&#257;noa <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/hshk\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaiinuiakea\">Hawai&#699;inui\u0101kea<\/span> School of Hawaiian Knowledge<\/a>. &ldquo;The new research that this kind of access will inspire will make knowledge and experience from the past into new tools to use as we plan for the present and future.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>More about the project<\/h2>\n<p>The project was a collaboration among <abbr>ONMS\/PIR<\/abbr>, <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Sea Grant, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weather.gov\/\">National Weather Service<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/coast.noaa.gov\/primo\/\">Pacific Risk Management <span aria-label=\"Ohana\">&#699;Ohana<\/span><\/a>, <span aria-label=\"Hawaiinuiakea\">Hawai&#699;inui\u0101kea<\/span> School of Hawaiian Knowledge, <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M&#257;noa <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soest.hawaii.edu\/jimar\/\">Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research<\/a>, and Awaiaulu. Funding was also provided, in part, by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinesanctuary.org\/\">National Marine Sanctuary Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Preserve America Initiative Internal Funding, now in its 12th year, supports strategies that represent current and emerging issues facing our nation and <abbr>NOAA<\/abbr>, including climate change and adaptation, cultural engagement, and historical ecology, all themes embodied in this project. <\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Cindy Knapman<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Related video<\/h2>\n<div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cWUp6jbzrlA\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The project Ka W&#257; Ma Mua, Ka W&#257; Ma Hope focuses on Hawaiian language newspaper articles that highlighted weather and climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1057,551,1109,92,9,438,56],"class_list":["post-47955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-hawaiian-language","tag-hawaiinuiakea-school-of-hawaiian-knowledge","tag-institute-of-hawaiian-language-research-and-translation","tag-school-of-ocean-and-earth-science-and-technology","tag-uh-manoa","tag-uh-sea-grant","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47955"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108900,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47955\/revisions\/108900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}