Proposals sought for Native Hawaiian archives honoring late Henry K. Giugni
The Henry Ku'ualoha Giugni Archives (hereafter the "HKG Archives"), is a digital and material archive intended to perpetuate and share the special history and culture of Native Hawaiians and the people of Hawaii. Similar in approach to DENSHO, the Japanese American Legacy Project (http://www.densho.org/) and Stephen Spielberg's USC Shoah Foundation Institute (http://college.usc.edu/vhi/), but much broader in scope and mission, the HKG Archives seeks to document the history of an entire society.
This funding is intended to hire a consultant to advise on the best practices to facilitate the sharing, perpetuating, and preserving of Hawaii's culture, traditions, oral histories, and collective memory through the development of a facility with the ability to transfer existing films, television shows, and privately recorded histories such as super 8mm home movies, and preserve them on a safe, digital storage archive for current and future generations via both a virtual, internet-accessible museum, and a physical repository for the storage and viewing of such documents. In addition, the consultant will advise on the establishment of a high-definition production facility to record new video and oral histories of Hawaii's kupuna.
