CODENAME: FILNET

Filipiniana.net was presented in two venues. One is at Leyte Normal Universities in Tacloban City for the Convention on Local and National History and at the workshop on "The Use of Filipiniana Materials in Philippine Libraries and Information Centers" at the Ortigas Foundation Library held last October 26 and 27, 2006 respectively. This is the first time, Filipiniana.net was presented to the public after its goes online last Sept. 27, 2006 amidst the typhoon Milenyo strikes the Philippine islands. I was present at the Librarian Seminar to help our presentor and editor-in-chief for their technical requirements. We we're also backed-up by two technology consultant and content specialist to assist us. The presentation goes well and its overwhelming. The audience got curious about what we are doing and they are very interested with the features they can get from the site. Questions has been raised and I have found out that really its true that many librarians are in...

For the past weeks after the launching, the filnet team are so busy for some revisions that our publisher wants to accomplished. He had seen some glitches and mistakes on some documents we are presenting to the site. He was so concerned with how the site would be use by the end user. The browse panel and has to be revised and have added more features. He was quite happy now with how the database interprets search results although for us in the technical team, more have to be done to make it more reliable and work fast. The homepage also had to change. He wants it to be simplier but functional. Filipiniana.net according to him will focus on the searchability of documents being processed and give the user an instant access to the internal pages of the site. So, aside from the technical development of the site. The content team are finalizing documents for uploading to the database. So, this is just a beginning for Filipiniana.net more to follow...more challenges ahead.