CODENAME: FILNET

After eights months of conceptualization and development, Filipiniana.net was known to the public when it introduces the site during the 19th IAHA Conference at Hotel Intercontinental in Makati City last Nov. 25, 2006. The International Association of Historians in Asia conducts a conference to gather all historians in Asia Pacific. This year, it back to its roots as the Philippines serve as its host to this annual event and just in time for us to share what Filipiniana.net is all about. Historians who wants to know more about the Philippines will be enlightened on what the digital library can do to facilitate their research on Philippine studies in a simple click of a mouse. At the moment, we have showed the following features of our digilib, image database and community building facility: highlighted keywords search keywords page result shortcut footnotes and end notes in every documents executive summary and subheadings in a document TOC type navigation at the sidebar opening ...

The soft-launch of Filipiniana.net is fast approaching and revisions has to be finalized. My tech team are already preparing for it and only the go signal from the top awaits for another interface design that our user can't wait. I have posted 3 design studies to our project development site for all our editors and consultants to study and comments. The debates only goes undecided without clear judgement or concrete decision on why they want the changes. So, I let our publisher decide and talk to him about what he wanted for the site. He talked on web standards and wanted to adapt the web 2.0 format of the site. He wanted a public participation on the site. The forum and blog that we had created is not enough for him. He wants something more. Simplified the main page and put more contents to the database. He wants the site to be finished before our soft-launch. The tech team has only 3 days to make the necessary changes and I'm very thankful that I have a very dedicated java ...

For the past eight months of Filnet operations, Skype becomes our official carrier to transmit our messages, send files and video call anywhere in the world. We usually conduct simultaneous meeting with online commuters as we process, decide and build the website online. Our consultants and other content developers are telecommuters.Having Skype we're able to cut down telecommunications cost because its FREE!. This technological advancement that runs over VoIP is a necessity for a start up like us. It facilitates our videoconferencing needs and to keep in contact with our boss when he is out of the country for a business trip. Our computer units are always has an active skype account that he can contact from time to time. Taking advantage to Skype services can benefits lots of businesses from SMEs to multinational companies. But having these internet based telecommunication facility doesn't come free at all. You still need decent computer with a DSL connection to m...

Our publisher arrives today from New York after 6 months of business trip to Europe and US. His network of contacts who had same passion for historical documents on the Philippines gives way for another historical find for Filipiniana.net. It has been posted and discussed by some historians in Filipiniana Blogsphere and as promised, another Filipino treasure had returned to his mother land. This is considered as one of the lost remains of 2, 000 book initially published by Rizal in Berlin that was sequestered by Spanish friars. The "Noli and Fili" will be unveiled to the public during Filipiniana.net's diorama presentation and exhibit at the 2nd Philippines-Spain Tribuna Conference to be slated here in Manila on November 27-28, 2006 where respected dignitaries of both countries are expected to grace the occassion. For us at Filipiniana.net , this is the more than just a "pasalubong" that we can have, above all its existence and bringing it back to the...

" The History Conference in Tacloban proved not only to be a great venue for introducing Filipiniana.net but also for getting to know what are some of current Philippine historians' interests in research and for hobnobbing with those who do research, write, teach, question matters of history. " , this is Ms. Pacheco's salutation in her email when she gives her report to the Team on her travails as she presented Filnet infront of 130 participants in Tacloban City last October 26, 2006. Attendees were mostly historians and teachers from different provinces in the Visayas region. They had showed their interest and eagerness for questions related on the site. Good thing is, they had appreciated what we are doing by helping historians and researchers to have a venue that is interactive, community driven and becoming their own research portal. According to them, the site will changed the way they do research. It will be their gateway or portal that wil...