Filipiniana.NET: Supporting Community Research Activities within an Indexed Digital Library

This paper presents www.Filipiniana.NET, a research portal on Filipino history, and culture. As a premium site for historians and the researcher community, its (1) public site ­ is a fully-indexed digital library of books, manuscripts and images, (2) content management system ­ for authors, editors and contributors to the digital library, and (3) a research portal ­ which contains researchers tools to assist the researchers in collecting and organizing research finds. Filipiniana.Net was set up a year ago and put on line 6 months ago. It is manned by 12 full time writers and editors, 4 technical support staff. It has an average of 132 researchers daily and 32,000 page views per day.