Inmates transcribe Hawaiian papers

By ‘Alohi Bikle / abikle@staradvertiser.com

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Jun 14, 2012

~~<p>Inmates at the Women's Community Correctional Center are the newest group to join the volunteer task force that is creating an electronic database of old Hawaiian-language newspapers.</p>
<p>About 50 inmates will join the Hawaiian-newspaper initiative, launched last year with the goal of transcribing more than 75,000 of the 125,000 pages from the more than 100 Hawaiian-language newspapers printed from 1834 to 1948.</p>
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Inmates at the Women's Community Correctional Center are the newest group to join the volunteer task force that is creating an electronic database of old Hawaiian-language newspapers.

About 50 inmates will join the Hawaiian-newspaper initiative, launched last year with the goal of transcribing more than 75,000 of the 125,000 pages from the more than 100 Hawaiian-language newspapers printed from 1834 to 1948. Login for more...