Bishop Museum

The Bishop Museum Library and archives' project, "Welo Hou: Building Connections to the Helen Roberts Mele Collection," will focus on digitizing and indexing a rare collection of mele (Hawaiian poetic compositions) for the purpose of increased and enriched public accessibility. Project activities include creation of word-searchable digital typescripts, associated manuscript notes, and English-language translations; as well as the creation of new Hawaiian-language digital typescripts using diacritical markings. The finished work will be available via an in-house database and a blog will provide access to full text transcriptions.