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 Acknowledgments
Alphabetical List of Files
Awards and Recognition
Copyright
Editorial Notebook
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| Welcome to the site Micronesia, an electronic library and archive. The site is maintained from Albury, New South Wales, Australia. It it is now on .
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One of the major problems with WWW resources is the
relative impermanence of many sites on the World Wide Web. All too often
one encounters the "Error 404 File not found" message. The aim of this
site to provide an archive of material on the Marshall Islands. The responsibility
for the contents of these pages rests with the respective author. The
editor has obtained, where necessary, the permission to reproduce the
material. This is gratefully acknowledged.
Editorial alterations have been restricted to the visual standardisation
to ensure the same 'look and feel' of the site.' All outward links either
spawn a new window or have been identified by the pointing hand ( The main directory pages are designed to be image poor, so that they load faster. The overall lay-out is purposefully designed in a plain fashion in order to avoid 'trendy' lay-out schemes which swiftly show their age. The site places emphasis not on form, but on the quality of the data presented and on the permanency of the data sources. The site is and will remain to be non-commercial and advertising free, which has implications for people who would like to use images and other material hosted on this site (see Copyright and Use of Images). | |||
Site Useage | |||
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| The first counter was activated on 17 February 2000, but only measured the frequency with which the portal page was called up. Subsequent counters were placed on second-level pages (eg. culture, history, politics etc). As most search engines target individual pages, and because many users may never access the site portal, these statistics undercount the total site useage. On 6 September 2001 a new counter was established to measure the total useage of all pages on the site. That counter commenced count at 44,948, which is the sum of useage of all main pages with counters to that date. It is obvious that this figure grossly undercounts the total site useage, but was the only verifiable value available. From 6 September 2001 on, all sub pages have the same counter so that direct visits to lower-order pages contribute to a unified overall site visit count. A comparison between the total site count and the count of the visits to the portal page alone (period October 2001 to August 2002) suggests that less than 10% of the visitors use the portal page at one point of their visit. This ratio (total visits/portal visits = 12.27±2.13) suggests that the total site count on 6 September 2001 would have been closer to 260,000 than the 44,948 used as the starting point of the current total count figure. In essence, 200,000 pages should be added to the figure shown in the counter . Commencing April 2002 accurate server-level statistics became available. Combined with the fact that the free Netscape hitometer service was discontinued in August, the counter system had to be revised. From November 2002 onwards the pages-delivered counts are presented on a monthly basis, usally updated during the first week of the month. The figure shown comprises of the Netscape hitometer data until March 2002 and the CSU server data from April 2002 onwards (not including the suggested corrections mentioned above). Rather than counting 'hits', ie system calls to the server which include calls to image files, the statistics presented here only account for 'pages delivered.' The resulting figure is a much more conservative, but more accurate account of actual site useage. The statistics until March 2002 were courtesy of the now defunct free service www.hitometer.com.
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| Total pages delivered until end of August 2005 4,191,607 Statistics are updated monthly. |
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| Country of Origin On record
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| Countries the users came from to-date (shown in red)
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| Comparison of Netscape's hitometer and CSU server statistics Some of the statistics provided by Netscape's hitometer service can be compared to the data from the server logs. A comparison of the count of pages delivered for the period 21 March to 30 June 2002 showed that the hitometer statistics undercount the actual delivery of pages on average by 16.2%. This is caused mainly the fact that all those users will not be counted by Netscape's hitometer system who do not permit cookies to be placed. Another reason of the undercount is that web robots indexing a site will make server calls for the pages, but will not register on the hitometer counter. For the reporting period 21 March to 30 June 2002 the monthly rate of undercount fluctuated between 2.5 and 34.0 percent. In view of the fluctuations on the one hand, and the short analysis period on the other, no attempts were made to adjust the hitometer data. A considerable undercount is certain, however. | |||
Milestones |
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The site started off in 1999 with the publication of three electronic books (Marshallese Legends and Traditions, Tattooing in the Marshall Islands, and Essays on the Marshallese Past). Since then the site has been systematically enlarged by the editor. |
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Submissions | |||
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| Please contact the editor via e-mail if you feel you have material, text or photos, to contribute to this site. Any submissions are welcome and will be assessed on a case-by-case basis. If material is accepted, it will be formatted to the look-and-feel of the website. Copyright will remain with the author/originator, but 'The Marshall Islands' will be given permanent usage right to the material mounted in the server. No fees will be levied for non commercial use of the material thus posted. | |||
Awards, Recognition and Media | |||
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| This website has attracted some media coverage and has received several World Wide Web awards for the excellence of its content and design. These awards are listed on a separate awards page as are links to the media articles. | |||
Journal | |||
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| As of May 2004, this website hosts the Micronesian Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, a journal formerly published by the Northern Marianas College. | |||
Copyright | |||
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| All material reproduced on this site is copyrighted to the originators of the material. This applied to both text and images. Except as governed by the provisions of the respective copyright laws of the user's country, nothing may be reproduced without the express permission of the originator or owner of the copyright. Persons wishing to reproduce the material will contact the copyright owner directly or the editor of this website to arrange for contact. | |||
Use of Images | |||
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| Use of Images where copyright is owned by Dirk H.R. Spennemann: In general the reproduction of images and text for educational and public interest purposes is encouraged as long as the reproduced amount does not exceed reasonable levels. Where images or text are to be reproduced for such purposes on a non-commercial and advertising free site, a formal acknowledgement line © Dirk H.R. Spennemann. Reproduced courtesy of Digital Micronesia with active links to the author's homepage and to the Resources of the Marshall Islands site will suffice. It would be appreciated if the editor will be notified of the reproduction by e-mail. If the image or text is to be reproduced for a commercial product or on a site that carries advertising either directly or as part of the hosting site, express permission will be required. Contact the editor to discuss the proposal. | |||
Site Index | |||
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| All files posted at the site are normally accessed through the structured first level directory pages such as politics, economics, history, culture & society, environment, or literature and through a number of deeper-level overview pages (such as historic images or Information on individual atolls). To provide a different avenue, a list of all files hosted on the site can be accessed from the alphabetical list provided below, as well as from a thematic file index, which is in preparation.
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Update Archive | |||
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| Select the relevant month if you would like to look at the history of this site. |
2000 :
April,
May,
June,
July,
August,
September ,
October,
November, and
December 2001 : January to May, June , July, August, September , October , November, and December. 2002 : January, February, March, April, May, June , July, August to October, November, and December. | ||
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| A site such as this one could obviously not be put together without the help and cooperation of many people. The site started off in 1999 with the publication of three electronic books (Marshallese Legends and Traditions, Tattooing in the Marshall Islands, and Essays on the Marshallese Past), the raw coding for which was set as class exercises for the subject ITC 130 ' On-Line Publishing'. Fundamental to its success were Prof. David Green and Rob Stocker. Darren Stuart provided some of the further site development and recoding of the students' work into the present form of the three books. The site was originally maintained on the life server of Charles Sturt University. The initial organisational and technical support provided by Prof. David Green and Larry Benton is gratefully recognised. Since then the site has moved to the main server of Charles Sturt University with technical support by Robert Hay. Since its commencement, the site has been systematically enlarged by the editor. I am particularly indebted to the authors who graciously made their material available, as well as the web administrators who shared lists and data collected by them: | ||
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| Politics Pages |
Mark Gottlieb (Staff Attorney Tobacco Products Liability Project, Tobacco Control Resource Center) Wali M. Osman (Bank of Hawaii, Honolulu); Asian Development Bank; U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of Inspector General; U.S. Bureau of Census; U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy; U.S. Department of State, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs; U.S. General Accounting Office; | |
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| Literature Pages | Jane Downing (Albury); | |
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| Health Pages |
WHO Western Pacific Region | |
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| History Pages |
Thomas Duff (Philadelphia, USA ); Francis Hezel (Micronesian Seminar, Pohnpei) Tim Lanzendörfer( XX); Larry Murphy (US National Park Service, Submerged Cultural Resources Unit); Jack Niedenthal (Bikini Local Government , Marshall ISlands); William L. Roberts (Plano, TX); Dave Robison; Steve Trussel; Marimed Foundation | |
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| Environment Pages |
Jane Downing (Albury); | |
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| Handicraft Pages | Anne and Bevan Downing (Canberra); Nancy and David Huskins (Akron, Ohio, USA); Susan King (XXX); Dietgard and Erhart Steffel (Bad Soden, Germany); | |
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| Stamp Pages |
Hubert Aichinger (Vienna, Austria); David Benson (Sydney); Kai Bothor (Göttingen, Germany); Bill Claghorn (Benicia, CA, USA); David Crocker (Montagu, South Africa); Lord Denovan (Edinburgh, Scotland); Kevin Doyle (XXX, USA); Richard and Francine Frajola (Ranchos De Taos, USA); Milton Frey (Texas, USA); Fred Gregory (XXX, USA); Michael Hensen (Passau, Germany); Wolfgang Herrmann (Berlin, Germany); Bernd Lüdemann (Lübeck, Germany); Horst Montag (Magdeburg, Germany); Vera Petty (Warwick, Bermuda); Michael Schmiedl (Frankfurt, Germany); Christof Schmidt (Hilden, Germany); Gillian Simpson (Librarian), Australian Maritime Museum, Sydney); A Lavar Taylor (Santa Ana, CA, USA); Charles L. Williams (Joplin, MO, USA); | |
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The
Micronesia--An
Electronic
Library & Archive
of Primary
Sources is provided free of charge as an advertising-free
information service
for the world community. It is being maintained by Dirk
HR Spennemann, Associate
Professor in Cultural
Heritage Management, Institute
of Land, Water and Society and School
of Environmental & Information Sciences, Charles
Sturt University,
Albury, Australia. The server
space and technical support are provided by Charles
Sturt University as part of its commitment
to regional engagement.
Dirk Spennemann 1999– 2005 |
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