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"The Pacific Studies WWW Monitor" (ISSN 1443-8976) was established 12 April 2000. It is modelled on its sister publication Asian Studies WWW Monitor which was established in April 1994. The periodical forms a key element of the global, cooperative project Pacific Studies WWW Virtual Library.
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The Pacific Studies WWW Monitor ISSN 1443-8976
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The Pacific Studies WWW Monitor: Mar-Apr 2001
Vol. 2, No. 2(11)

For earlier materials browse the Past Issues - Archive
or search the Pacific Studies WWW Monitor database [forthcoming].
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THIS ISSUE
Entries accepted for publication: 11
Entries rejected: 2

29 Apr 2001
3star
Travelmaxia.com
Pacific Harbour, Fiji
Supplied note: "At last, a commercial travel site that really works! You can tell that Travelmaxia.com is based in the islands as their focus is on the islands themselves. It's attractive, useful, informative, and representative. Also of note of their related sites, focusing on real estate, employment, investment, and ecommerce."
URL http://www.travelmaxia.com/
Link reported by: David Stanley (davidstanley@guidebookwriters.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

06 Apr 2001
3star
New Zealand Digital Library Project (NZDL)
Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Self-description: "[A] research program [..] to explore the potential of internet-based digital libraries. Our vision is to develop systems that automatically impose structure on anarchic, uncatalogued, distributed repositories of information, thereby providing information consumers with effective tools to locate what they need and to peruse it conveniently and comfortably. Project members are actively working on techniques for creating, managing, and and mainatining collections; extracting metadata from legacy documents; analysing library usage and user needs; Maori, Arabic and Chinese language systems; internationalising the library interface; optical music recognition and musical collections; novel interfaces for formulating queries and visualising results; novel interfaces for browsing metadata; text mining for keyphrases, acronyms, and other metadata; keyphrase extraction and phrase-based browsing; and other research topics."
URL http://www.nzdl.org/cgi-bin/library
Link reported by: Nikst (nikst@online.ru)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

19 Mar 2001
3star
Go Asia Pacific
ABC Radio Australia, Australia
Supplied note: "The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Gateway to the Asia Pacific. Includes, news, analysis, in depth coverage of key issues and interactive content. Presented by Radio Australia in English, Tok Pisin, Chinese, Vietnamese and Indonesian."
URL http://www.goasiapacific.com
Link reported by: Damien Dempsey (damien@ra.abc.net.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info./News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

19 Mar 2001
3star
Carving Out - Development in the Pacific
ABC Radio Australia, Australia
Supplied note: "This 13 part multimedia series takes the pulse of the Pacific. In 'Carving Out' Pacific Islanders talk about cultural identity, health, education and the state of their environment, voicing their practical solutions to the big questions affecting the Pacific. Produced by Radio Australia in English and Tok Pisin."
URL http://abc.net.au/ra/carvingout
Link reported by: Damien Dempsey (damien@ra.abc.net.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

19 Mar 2001
3star
Charting the Pacific
ABC Radio Australia, Australia
Supplied note: "Charting the Pacific - Produced by ABC Radio Australia. Presents detailed statistics, regional issues, maps, events, links, and profiles of the the region's people and culture."
URL http://abc.net.au/ra/pacific/
Link reported by: Damien Dempsey (damien@ra.abc.net.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

15 Mar 2001
3star
Societe des Oceanistes
Musee de l'homme, Paris, France
Site contents: Les Publications; Les Conferences; Les liens Oceanistes; La Carte de l'Oceanie; Statut; Organigramme; Adresse; Adhesion; Actualite.
[A site in French - ed.]
URL http://www.mnhn.fr/oceanist/
Link reported by: Societe des Oceanistes (oceanist@cimrs1.mnhn.fr)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

13 Mar 2001
5star
Resources on the Marshall Islands
Charles Sturt University, Australia
Self-description: "Contents include books, essays and other information about the people, culture, environment, history, politics and the economy of the Marshall Islands."
Site contents: Culture & Society; European History; Literature & Art; Environment; Politics & Economy; Public Health; Bibliographies; Map; The Atolls; Link of the day!; WWW Sites; What is new? Acknowledgements.
URL http://life.csu.edu.au/marshall
Link reported by: Prof D. Spennemann (dspennemann@csu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

07 Mar 2001
4star
List of Major Search Engines and Directories in Oceania
www.dreamsubmit.net, India
Self-description: "List of Search Engines and Directories specific to each country in Oceania: Australia (16); List of major Search Engines and Directories common to [all] countries in Oceania (3). [Asia's resources (300+ items) have a separate page at www.dreamsubmit.net/series/Series_list_regional_asia1.html - ed.]."
[The list is annotated with asterixes which denote the level of difficulty in adding URLs - ed.]
URL http://www.dreamsubmit.net/series/Series_list_regional_oceania1.html
Link reported by: Ravi Poovaiah (ravipoovaiah@ureach.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

06 Mar 2001
5star
Hawaiian Newspapers, War Records, and Trust Territory Image Repository
U Hawaii Manoa School of Library and Information Studies, Honolulu, Hawaiii, USA
Self-description: "Hawaiian Language Newspapers: Images of Hawaiian language newspapers published from 1834 to 1948. The newspapers include stories, chants, photographs and advertisements, political notices and letters to the editor and document a unique period in Hawaiian and American history. They also present the Hawaiian view of historical events, genealogy and culture.
Hawaii War Records Depository: Holds war-time photographs from the Hawai'i War Records Depository (HWRD), which was created in 1943 to document the impact of the war upon Hawai'i and its populace. HWRD has about 1,325 photographs; approx. 300 are clearly identified from Hawaii's two major English newspapers and have been scanned with permission.
Trust Territory Photo Archives: The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands included the Micronesian archipelagoes of the Marshalls, Carolines and Marianas during the U.S. administrative period from 1947 to 1994. The archive contains over 52,000 photographs and approximately 8,000 have been scanned. The photographs visually document nearly 50 years of the U.S. administration's programs in education, health, political and economic development."
URL http://128.171.57.100/
Link reported by: Scout Report (scout-report@cs.wisc.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

05 Mar 2001
5star
Fiji Court of Appeal decision on the 1997 Fijian Constitution
The School of Law, University of the South Pacific, Port Vila, Vanuatu
Site contents: South Pacific Judgments and Statutes; Fiji Court of Appeal decision on the 1997 Fijian Constitution (Summary & Full Text). [Also: About the School of Law; Courses Offered; Course Materials; Staff; Pacific Law Materials; Journal of South Pacific Law; Emalus Campus Library; Recommended Internet Links; Latest Additions; Search the Site ]
URL http://www.vanuatu.usp.ac.fj
Link reported by: Allison Ley (allison.ley@anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

02 Mar 2001
4star
Libraries of Asia Pacific (LAP)
National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Site contents: Directory of Libraries of Asia Pacific; About the Libraries of Asia Pacific Web Site; About the Conference of Directors of National Libraries of Asia and Oceania (CDNLAO); CDNLAO Meetings; CDNLAO Members; Contact Us; Calendar of Asia-Pacific Library Conferences; IFLA Section on National Libraries; IFLA Core Programme for Universal Availability of Publications (UAP); IFLA Core Programme for the Advancement of Librarianship (ALP); IFLA Section on Regional Activities: Asia and Oceania; IFLA Core Programme for Preservation and Conservation (PAC); Congresss of Southeast Asian Librarians (CONSAL); Asia and Pacific Special Interest Group (APSIG).
URL http://www.nla.gov.au/lap
Link reported by: T.Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide/Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

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