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https://www.clir.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2016/09/UniversityofFlorida_redacted_reduced.pdf

Council on LIbrary and Information Resources

Film on a Boat will serve a continuing partnership between the University of Florida (UF) and the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras (UPR) to digitize each institutions' unique, hidden holdings of Caribbean newspapers on master microfilm. This three-year project seeks to digitize and make freely available 800,000 pages of pre-1923 Caribbean newspapers. The partners will produce new second generation microfilm negatives; catalog individual titles; conduct issue-level collation; send to a vendor for digitization, creation of derivative files, and OCR text files; perform quality control on deliverables; and ingest into the Digital Library of the Caribbean (www.dloc.com) and Biblioteca Digital Puertorriqueña (http://bibliotecadigital.uprrp.edu/cdm/). Once available digitally, these resources will provide scholars with access to previously unavailable information on daily life in the Caribbean to enable new research and research questions from a variety of fields and disciplines on cross-cutting issues including migration, social movements, history, and literature.

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Council on LIbrary and Information Resources

The proposed 36-month scanning project focuses on the earliest governance records of Hawai’i, from the Hawaiian Kingdom through the overthrow of the Monarchy up to its annexation by the United States in 1900. This is a collaborative partnership between the Hawai'i State Archives, Hawaiinuiakea, Office of Hawaiian Education, and other cultural institutions. A major emphasis of the project will be on providing online access to 'Olelo Hawai’i (Hawaiian Language) records from the Hawaiian Kingdom due to their ongoing cultural, as well as legal, importance. The legality of the overthrow and constitutionality of the subsequent annexation of the State are still contentious issues to the people of Hawai’i. The intent of this grant project is to add a layer of transparency to the operation and transition of government within Hawai’i by providing online description and global access to a legally and culturally important collection hidden by language (Hawaiian) and geography

https://www.clir.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2016/09/BethelBroadcasting_redacted_reduced.pdf

Council on LIbrary and Information Resources

The NUTARLUKI: “Make Them New Project will result in digitization of 2,006 video and audiotapes from a 12,000 item, rare, hidden-to-the-world collection housed at Bethel Broadcasting in remote, arctic Alaska. This Project is Phase Two of a multi-year digitization plan already in process with federal and tribal support. The Project will save at-risk physical media in a collection unlike any other in the world, that documents the lifestyles, cultural traditions and languages of Yup’ik and Cup’ik Eskimos living along the western coast of Alaska for thousands of years. It will preserve, digitize, and make publicly available 2,006 magnetic records, for which preservation priorities and strategies have been established. By formal agreement, digitized archives will be sent to the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, posted online and shared for safekeeping at the Library of Congress, thereby enabling general access to a collection with local, national and international significance

https://clir.wordpress.clir.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2016/09/ChristChurchPreservationTrustSmith_SAMPLE_opt.pdf

Council on LIbrary and Information Resources

Settled by William Penn in 1681 as a center for religious freedom, Philadelphia provided refuge for newcomers of many faiths. In the 18th century, Philadelphia served as the epicenter for political thought and action, as delegates to the Continental Congress and Constitutional Conventions met, debated, and worshiped together here. The religious organizations built by early Americans offer windows into colonial life through baptismal, circumcision, marriage, burial, and pew rental records: along with meeting minutes and correspondence, these documents act as transcripts of a time before census records and city directories existed. Unfortunately, as few congregations have active archival programs, access to these documents is limited. A CLIR grant would enable us -- Philadelphia’s historic congregations -- to create a digital database of shared records for a worldwide audience.

https://clir.wordpress.clir.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2016/09/UniversityofNebraskaLincolnJacobs_SAMPLE_opt.pdf

Council on LIbrary and Information Resources

The History Department, the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH), and University Archives & Special Collections at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) propose to collaborate with the Genoa U.S. Indian School Foundation and National Archives branches in Kansas City and Denver to digitize, describe, and make accessible materials related to the Genoa U.S. Indian Industrial School, one of the largest U.S. Indian boarding schools, which was in operation from 1884 to 1934. We will process approximately 10500 pages (or 3368 items) of student case files, admittance forms, correspondence, censuses, administrative and health reports, photographs, artwork, ephemera, artifacts, and a student newspaper held by the National Archives and by the Genoa U.S. Indian School Foundation. Our project will make these hidden records accessible to the families of Indian people who attended the school, researchers who study the Indian boarding schools, and the general public.

https://clir.wordpress.clir.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2016/09/IndianaUniversityDalmau_SAMPLE_opt.pdf

Council on LIbrary and Information Resources

Funding for Eastern Bloc Borderlands: Digitizing Russian Military Topographic Maps of Eastern Europe, 1883-1947 will support the digitization, cataloging, and georeferencing of 4,000+ largely Sovietera maps that were originally captured by the Germans during World War II, then Americans, and ultimately deposited in the Library of Congress (LC). The Indiana University Libraries (IUL) holds duplicates of this map series based on a cataloging exchange arrangement between IUL and LC. The Russian Military Topographic Map Collection covers areas of Eastern Europe that were greatly impacted by World War II, and were of strategic importance to Russia/Soviet Union. Areas featured, such as Crimea, are critical in international relations today. These maps also provide a glimpse of pre-war Eastern Europe, with villages and settlements that in some cases no longer exist. Increasing patron demand from IU and scholars abroad and preservation concerns provided the impetus for this year-long digitization project.

https://clir.wordpress.clir.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2016/09/DeafStudiesArchiveatRochesterInstituteofTechnologyandtheNationalTechnicalInstitutefort_SAMPLE_opt.pdf

Council on LIbrary and Information Resources

Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) Libraries will digitize 61 videotapes held in the RIT/NTID DSA that document the ASL literature movement in Rochester from 1970-1999. These videotapes will represent the largest collection of rare U.S. ASL Literature to be made publically accessible. Preservation digital copies will be made and stored, and access digital copies provided for use by scholars and the general public.This collection will be universally accessible: it will be captioned, voiced, transcribed and/or signed. The once “hidden” work of this pioneering and under-represented group will be made public for the first time, broadening access to the cultural heritage of this diverse group little known outside of the Deaf community and enriching interdisciplinary studies in linguistics, poetry, performing arts, and cinema. Finally, this project can shape a new understanding of the libraries’ role in modeling best practices for accessible sharing of online videos.

https://clir.wordpress.clir.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2017/10/CVStarrEastAsianLibraryUniversityofCaliforniaBerkeleyZhou_3990457_Redacted.pdf

Council on LIbrary and Information Resources

The project proposes to digitize approximately 1,500 woodblock, copperplate, and manuscript maps produced in Japan between the 1600s and 1923 and now held by the East Asian Library, and to add them to a website already developed by David Rumsey and Cartography Associates. The website, http://www.davidrumsey.com/japan/, which currently provides access to images of just over 800 maps from the same collection, allows researchers to access the maps without stressing the materials. It also allows researchers to enlarge details, save images to a file, add notes, and juxtapose or superimpose maps and satellite images for comparison. These functions, coupled with the size and variety of the entire map collection, will allow researchers to use the maps to trace political, cultural, administrative, and topographical change, as well as the development of Japanese cartography, from premodern times into the twentieth century.

https://clir.wordpress.clir.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2017/10/NortheastHistoricFilmCarlson_3990486_Redacted.pdf

Council on LIbrary and Information Resources

This project will create high-quality digital surrogates of analog collections of home movies and amateur film and video made by women between 1925 and 1997. The collections are held by Northeast Historic Film, the Lesbian Home Movie Project, and Chicago Film Archives. The project will result in item level catalog records, finding aids, and newly digitized surrogates from film and video made by women filmmakers that will be shared online via a project website that links users back to the holding institutions' websites. Most of these works are original camera reversal, meaning no other copies exist. Protecting original analog media with excellent digital surrogates advances research and preservation. The project holds great significance for scholarship by providing online access to films currently unavailable for off-site viewing and by challenging the notion that women were simply the subjects of home movies and amateur film, rather than filmmakers themselves.

https://clir.wordpress.clir.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2017/10/NorthernIllinoisUniversityShort_3990463_Redacted.pdf

Council on LIbrary and Information Resources

Northern Illinois University (NIU) and Villanova University (VU) propose to digitize the dime novels of Beadle & Adams, the first and most important publisher of the format. The project will involve digitizing Albert Johannsen’s personal collection, acquired by NIU in 1967, and will include related publications from VU’s special collections. A total of 5,400 dime novels will be digitized and made freely available to read and download via the website Nickels and Dimes. In addition, the project will incorporate metadata from Johannsen’s The House of Beadle and Adams and their Nickel and Dime Novels (1950), one of the most significant works of dime novel scholarship and bibliography of the 20th century, including relationships between stories, editions, and authors. This will be published as open linked data on dimenovels.org and include digital holdings information, which will be used to coordinate dime novel digitization across multiple institutions.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-88-18-0156-18/proposals/lg-88-18-0156-18-full-proposal.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

Curating Collections - Forum

LG-88-18-0156-18

The University of Illinois will hold four geographically distributed symposia for archival repositories to address documenting student activism related to historically marginalized communities. The project will build on the existing Project STAND (Student Activism Now Documented) partnership, a consortium of over forty colleges and universities. The symposia will bring together archivists, technologists, educators, and activists, and will be live-streamed and recorded for remote participants. It will result in the development of educational resources for curating activism archives, a white paper outlining next steps, and a broader network of collaborators for the STAND network.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-87-18-0197-18/proposals/lg-87-18-0197-18-full-proposal.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

Curating Collections - Planning

LG-87-18-0197-18

The University of North Texas (UNT) Information Science Department, UNT Linguistics Department, and UNT Libraries will undertake a collaborative project to identify gaps between the information organization methods of language data archives and the needs of actual and potential users of such archives. This planning project will provide necessary background information and preparation for a forthcoming collaborative research project that will aim to extend the usefulness of existing language data archive collections through a user-centered design of systems incorporating the efficient methods and techniques for providing digital access to language data collections at scale.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-87-18-0057-18/proposals/lg-87-18-0057-18-full-proposal.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

Curating Collections - Planning Grant

LG-87-18-0057-18

The Missouri Botanical Garden and Saint Louis University will analyze the web annotation needs of the systematic botany scientific community and develop a prototype of how those needs may be met within a digital library platform. The project team will assess the practicality of an existing tool to satisfy the annotation needs of botanical users, including technical, economic, and operational considerations. This work will inform developers on best practices to integrate an annotation tool within a virtual library. The intended outcome of the project is to illuminate literature annotation needs of scientific and other research communities by honing in on the needs of the well-defined user group in systematic botany and by developing a prototype for those needs within a digital library platform.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-87-18-0062-18/proposals/lg-87-18-0062-18-full-proposal.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

Curating Collections - Planning Grant

LG-87-18-0062-18

New York University Libraries, in collaboration with the NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, the NYU Center for Data Science, and ProPublica, will develop a prototype for a software tool to capture and preserve data journalism projects in a scholarly archive. The prototype will add to an existing open source computational reproducibility tool, ReproZip. The proposed extension will be designed to quickly and easily pack and unpack dynamic websites, enabling the first large-scale collection, preservation, and discovery of complex interactive websites. Storytelling with data has revolutionized modern reporting, and the dramatic increase in the production and popularity of data journalism projects can be seen both at news startups, as well as at legacy news organizations. These stories are an important part of the historical record, yet due to their technological complexity they cannot currently be archived or preserved at libraries, newsrooms, or cultural institutions. As such, they are disappearing. This project will alleviate some of this problem.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-89-18-0225-18/proposals/lg-89-18-0225-18-full-proposal.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

Curating Collections - Sparks

LG-89-18-0225-18

The Montana State University Library will design, build, and assess a prototype Institutional Research Data Index (IRDI) to promote the discovery and reuse of institutional datasets. The metadata index will promote discovery and reuse by automatically harvesting metadata from third-party data repositories and by optimizing content for commercial search engines. IRDI will reinforce research data as an essential scholarly product by interoperating with institutional research information management systems and functioning as a database that institutions can query and use to showcase institutional research, all while requiring far fewer resources than necessary to support a full institutional data repository.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-73-18-0196-18/proposals/lg-73-18-0196-18-full-proposal.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform - Forum

LG-73-18-0196-18

The California Digital Library at the University of California and the Dryad organization will hold an invitational workshop to explore issues, identify impediments, and make recommendations regarding the widespread promotion and adoption of effective, scalable, and sustainable institutional data publication infrastructures. There are several well-known misalignments across the research data management ecosystem that impede broader adoption of data publication. The project team seeks to identify and bridge these gaps. The workshop will result in a set of recommendations for a full service, open source, low cost data publishing platform that can be used as a standalone solution or in coordination with existing institutional repository strategies. The project will leverage institutions across the nation in open data infrastructures in order to increase the amount of curated, accessible data publicly available.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-73-18-0226-18/proposals/lg-73-18-0226-18-full-proposal.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform - Forum

LG-73-18-0226-18

James Madison University, in collaboration with the Association of Research Libraries, will convene experts and stakeholders to address key opportunities and challenges in collectively designing and building a shared platform to support the crowdfunded exchange of open access content in libraries. Through a series of successive focus groups, the project team will surface community requirements and principles for a collective system. The outcome will be a white paper of findings and recommendations that will be used to generate a request for proposals for the development of an open access collection development platform for libraries.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-73-18-0236-18/proposals/lg-73-18-0236-18-full-proposal.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform - Forum

LG-73-18-0236-18

The Pennsylvania State University Libraries, in collaboration with the University of Missouri -Kansas City University Libraries, will host two meetings to explore the experiences of grant-funded digital laborers in the libraries, archives, and museums (LAM) communities, and subsequently, will inform the development of best practices for the evaluation process of project proposals. The work builds on research conducted in 2017 by the Digital Library Federation Working Group on Labor that revealed the need to bring together stakeholders from across LAM communities. The project seeks to address the issues created and reproduced by short-term and grant-funded positions, how those impact the lives and professions of the workforce, and how they affect investments made in national digital LAM infrastructures and services.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-72-18-0131-18/proposals/lg-72-18-0131-18-full-proposal.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform - Planning

LG-72-18-0131-18

Grand Valley State University Libraries will lay the foundation for a collaborative network to provide statewide digital preservation services for libraries, archives, and museums in Michigan, and share their findings for use in other regions. Through facilitated knowledge exchanges, field research, and expert consultations, this project will study the best practices as well as the barriers to inter-organizational collaboration. It will result in the development of practical resources to help institutions sustainably collaborate on digital preservation activities. The project will replicate, test, and update advancements that have been achieved in successful regional networks, and share lessons learned and new resources with other states and regions.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-72-18-0147-18/proposals/lg-72-18-0147-18-full-proposal.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform - Planning

LG-72-18-0147-18

Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science will analyze the characteristics and activities of 10 successful open source projects to determine a set of guidelines that help grow and maintain a healthy open source community. Many academic and public libraries build or make use of open source projects to provide affordable and sustainable tools built by and for the community. The team will seek to determine how an open source project is sustained, what it takes to build a growing and vibrant open source community, and which types of open source projects are reliable for use and participation. This planning grant will define the study design, engage partners, and host an expert workshop.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-72-18-0204-18/proposals/lg-72-18-0204-18-full-proposal.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform - Planning

LG-72-18-0204-18

DuraSpace will investigate barriers to upgrading unsupported versions of the Fedora repository platform used by approximately 240 libraries and archives in the United States. Use of unsupported versions puts the stability, security, and functionality of the content and services these institutions support at risk. This project will consult with an advisory board of stakeholders from the Islandora, Samvera, and Fedora communities; conduct an environmental scan of relevant community initiatives; and gather primary research data to inform recommendations for reducing barriers to upgrading. Project outputs will include user stories, an inventory of resources for upgrading, and recommendations for migration paths.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-72-18-0221-18/proposals/lg-72-18-0221-18-full-proposal.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform - Planning

LG-72-18-0221-18

The University of Notre Dame will determine the national need for an automated tool that supports cross-disciplinary research by applying semantic analysis across disparate scholarly works, and solidify partnerships for the collaborative development of tools to support those needs. The main components of the project include a comprehensive literature review, an environmental scan, and a series of workshops to begin a national conversation and form a national team to support further research. The project is the foundation for developing an innovative approach that will support interdisciplinary scholarship by advancing library knowledge classification practices into the era of machine learning and artificial intelligence.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-70-18-0168-18/proposals/lg-70-18-0168-18-full-proposal.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform - Project

LG-70-18-0168-18

Northwestern University will create tools for tracking content in distributed digital preservation systems, leading to improved management and preservation of content and collections at cultural heritage organizations nationwide. The project builds on a previous IMLS-funded planning grant in which research was conducted in partnership with the University of California San Diego. The project will result in the creation of a curation toolkit which will make the digital preservation selection process more efficient. The project team will also work with developers from digital preservation services to develop standards that will increase interoperability between local repositories and distributed digital preservation systems.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-70-18-0202-18/proposals/lg-70-18-0202-18-full-proposal.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform - Project

LG-70-18-0202-18

The Shared BigData Gateway for Research Libraries is a two-year project to develop, seed, and maintain a cloud-based, extendable cyberinfrastructure for sharing large academic library data resources with a growing community of scholars. The team will create a sustainable and shared resource for current and future big data mining and analysis. The project will facilitate sharing of data derivatives, metadata, annotations, visualizations, algorithms, and results according to user preferences, stimulating collaboration and knowledge discovery. The team will commence important conversations aimed at exploring collective regional and national solutions for hosting, curating, and maintaining library-owned and leased data collections for libraries of all sizes.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-70-18-0210-18/proposals/lg-70-18-0210-18-full-proposal.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform - Project

LG-70-18-0210-18

San Jose State University's School of Information, the Tribal Libraries Program of the New Mexico State Library, the New Mexico State Department of Information Technology Office of Broadband & Geospatial Initiatives, the Gigabit Libraries Network, and the University of California, Santa Barbara's Department of Computer Science will collaborate with tribal libraries across New Mexico to explore dramatically improving tribal internet connectivity, equity, and inclusion through the design and implementation of several TV Whitespace (TVWS) networks statewide. The proposal will address challenges associated with Native American digital access and inclusion through a four-part work plan involving professional development, technology implementation via a subaward program, evaluation research, and model development/dissemination.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-74-18-0173-18/proposals/lg-74-18-0173-18-full-proposal.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform - Sparks

LG-74-18-0173-18

Lewis & Clark College, Reed College, University of Puget Sound, Whitman College, and Willamette University will develop a network to empower libraries at small colleges to provide their faculty and students with data management and data information literacy support. They will hold two one-and-a-half-day workshops for faculty, students, and staff to increase understanding of research data management practices in particular disciplinary domains, and develop undergraduate curricula in data information literacy specific to those domains. The workshops will pool together library expertise in data management, foster collaboration between researchers and librarians, and improve practice in research laboratories.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-89-18-0225-18/proposals/lg-89-18-0225-18-full-proposal.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform -Planning

LG-72-18-0179-18

The Montana State University (MSU) Library, in collaboration with DuraSpace and MSU computer scientists, will work to improve the accuracy, comparability, and reporting capacity of institutional repository (IR) analytics. Reported activity data for IRs are often inaccurate and cannot be compared across repositories or time. The team's previous research demonstrates existing analytics either significantly over-count or drastically undercount IR activities such as file downloads. The team will develop a project work plan scoped around determining high-impact solutions for addressing IR deficiencies and improving a recently piloted tool's capacity to measure and assess the value and impact of IRs.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-88-17-0129-17/proposals/lg-88-17-0129-17-full-proposal-documents.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

Curating Collections - National Forum

LG-88-17-0129-17

The University of North Texas, in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, the University of California at Santa Barbara, the University of Missouri, the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University, Yale University, the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), the Educopia Institute, and the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) will hold national forums in 2018 to address national concerns regarding the preservation of electronic government information (PEGI) by cultural memory organizations for long term access by citizens of the United States. By convening a series of expert groups and key stakeholders the project will identify and surface a broadly shared national consensus and agenda on specific future steps needed to preserve and provide long term access to electronic government information in the United States.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-88-17-0171-17/proposals/lg-88-17-0171-17-full-proposal-documents.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

Curating Collections - National Forum

LG-88-17-0171-17

The Washington University in St. Louis Libraries, University of Iowa Libraries, and the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology will hold two meetings titled "Community Standards for 3D Data Preservation" (CS3DP), to bring together stakeholders to work toward establishing shared standards, practices, and technologies for digital 3D data preservation, documentation, and dissemination. While some resources exist for learning how to create and work with 3D data, resources related to preservation are lacking. The first forum will bring together diverse experts from the community to explore digital 3D preservation topics and establish working groups. Between meetings, working groups will continue to engage online. In the second forum, participants will explore the working groups' solutions and agree on a roadmap for digital 3D preservation. The forums will produce a community-developed plan to move 3D preservation, documentation, and dissemination forward, will make recommendations for standards and best practices through a white paper, and will create a plan for sustaining these investments.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-89-17-0218-17/proposals/lg-89-17-0218-17-full-proposal-documents.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

Curating Collections - Sparks

LG-89-17-0218-17

A team from the Media Center for Art History at Columbia University will apply image processing, deep learning, and optical character recognition (OCR) techniques to investigate methods for automated processing and data extraction from digitized 35mm slides to support archival discovery. The 35mm slide library, once the cornerstone of teaching art history at all levels, now languishes in storage, with valuable image resources trapped inside its drawers. This project aims to make these legacy collections accessible again, with the potential to increase available teaching resources, make significant images available for study, and to preserve the institutional memory and pedagogical history retained in these collections. They hope to discover techniques that will allow for less time-consuming and more cost-effective processing of legacy slide collections, enabling libraries across the country to partially automate the cataloging and identification of significant images.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-73-17-0119-17/proposals/lg-73-17-0119-17-full-proposal-documents.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform - National Forum

LG-73-17-0119-17

Rhizome, in collaboration with the University of California at Riverside Library (UCR), the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), and the Documenting the Now project, will design and host a National Forum on Ethics in Web Archiving. The three-day meeting will convene many stakeholder groups, including representatives from libraries, archives, and museums, socially engaged artists, activists, and members of community organizations, and interdisciplinary practitioners such as social media researchers and lawyers. Participants will discuss the ethical challenges, both technical and social, involved in archiving the web and social media. Following the forum, a best practices white paper and proceedings will be published.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-73-17-0141-17/proposals/lg-73-17-0141-17-full-proposal-documents.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform - National Forum

LG-73-17-0141-17

Team members at Virginia Tech, Indiana University, and the University of Oklahoma will organize meetings to develop a roadmap and white paper for library adoption of Three Dimensional (3D) and Virtual Reality (VR) services. Lower costs and greater computational power have made 3D and VR technologies financially realistic for a broad variety of institutions. Many academic libraries have developed archives for other forms of research data, but there is an absence of standards and best practices for producing, managing, and preserving 3D and VR content. This gap is an information management problem suited to the strengths of libraries and can benefit librarians and researchers alike across institutions. The team will host three national forums, each on a different 3D and VR theme: content creation and publishing, visualization and analysis, and repository practice and standards.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-73-17-0162-17/proposals/lg-73-17-0162-17-full-proposal-documents.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform - National Forum

LG-73-17-0162-17

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology will convene a workshop to identify gaps, opportunities, and best practices for designing library information systems that can incorporate local knowledge, accommodate different modes of learning and cognition, and foster diverse approaches to organizing information. The goal of the project is consider how best to provide services that are accessible to communities with a range of abilities and viewpoints. It will address concerns that algorithms, interfaces, and ontologies embedded in current library systems incorporate substantial biases. The primary output of the project will be a white paper summarizing the significance and areas of need for diversity and inclusion; identifying high-impact design principles that are accepted and emerging in the broader community; characterizing approaches and methods for applying these principles to library information systems; and identifying potential next steps for software developers that develop these systems and for library institutions that adopt and deploy them.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-72-17-0132-17/proposals/lg-72-17-0132-17-full-proposal-documents.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform - Planning Grant

LG-72-17-0132-17

The North Carolina State University Libraries, University of Kansas Libraries, and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School of Information Sciences are exploring the need for, and ideal components of, an open educational resource (OER) for teaching library students and professionals about scholarly communication. Scholarly communication is recognized as a core competency for librarianship but there is currently no unified educational resource available for training and continuing education. Scholarly communication is interdisciplinary and quickly evolving, which makes it difficult to create a standard commercial textbook. In consultation with many stakeholders, the project team will design and conduct a nationwide survey and workshop to engage directly with the two central stakeholder groups: library school instructors and scholarly communication experts. These activities will identify the extent to which an OER is needed, the components of the OER, the potential obstacles to its adoption, and the partnerships and promotional activities that would accelerate its use.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-72-17-0139-17/proposals/lg-72-17-0139-17-full-proposal-documents.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform - Planning Grant

LG-72-17-0139-17

Researchers at the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University Indianapolis and Indiana University Bloomington will work toward the development of a conceptual framework for assessing libraries' capacity for big data curation. This planning grant will provide a research-based foundation for a future project to develop a big data curation capacity assessment toolkit that would be freely available to libraries across the country. The conceptual framework will be informed by three specific research activities: systematic literature review, online survey, and in-person focus groups. Research findings will provide informative sources for academic and public libraries that are interested in or are planning sustainable and scalable big data curation programs. It will assist library staff in understanding their current environments as well as potential impediments to building successful curation programs.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-72-17-0179-17/proposals/lg-72-17-0179-17-full-proposal-documents.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform - Planning Grant

LG-72-17-0179-17

The School of Information at Pratt Institute will develop a prototype of DADAlytics, a modular tool that performs supervised entity extraction from archival documents for generating linked open datasets, lowering barriers to entry for institutions seeking to create linked open data from archival materials. This project will build on previous work to develop the Linked Jazz Transcript Analyzer, extending that tool's functionality and making it more widely available for use by other institutions. Grant funds will support the research and data gathering needed to inform the redesign and reengineering of the tool, including an environmental scan, a series of meetings with key stakeholders and the development of a prototype.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-70-17-0146-17/proposals/lg-70-17-0146-17-full-proposal-documents.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform - Project

LG-70-17-0146-17

The University Library System at the University of Pittsburgh, in partnership with the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, the Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center, and the Urban Institute, which supports and coordinates the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership, will develop the capacity of public and academic libraries to serve as key partners in local open civic data ecosystems. The project's primary output will be a guide and toolkit to help public and academic libraries: identify local needs and contexts around open civic data; consider roles, opportunities, practices, and governance in the civic data ecosystem; anticipate and address common challenges; measure local civic open data health and capacity; and learn from examples of successful civic data partnerships.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-70-17-0196-17/proposals/lg-70-17-0196-17-full-proposal-documents.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform - Project

LG-70-17-0196-17

The Council of State Archivists (CoSA) will gather, develop, and share best practices and guidance materials to improve creation, management, preservation, and use of permanent state government digital records and information. CoSA will collaborate with the National Governors Association (NGA), the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO), the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS), and the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies (COSLA), as well as content creators in state government and users of government data, to help improve preservation and use of permanent state government electronic records. The project will result in the publication of five collaborative reports, ten case studies on electronic records or digital preservation issues, six webinars, and engagement with stakeholders through articles, conference presentations, and focus groups.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-70-17-0217-17/proposals/lg-70-17-0217-17-full-proposal-documents.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform - Project

LG-70-17-0217-17

The University of Houston Libraries, in collaboration with Stanford University, DuraSpace, Indiana University and the Digital Public Library of America, will develop a toolkit to help institutions accomplish complex system migrations. Focusing primarily on migrations from CONTENTdm to Hyku, the toolkit will allow institutions to better understand their digital library ecosystems and how they can prepare for migration. It will include content such as documentation on the theoretical approaches to migration, instructions on how to conduct a needs assessment based on analyzing metadata structures and understanding system requirements, best practices for preparing repository data for migration, and specialized tools to assist users with migration to Hyku.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-71-17-0124-17/proposals/lg-71-17-0124-17-full-proposal-documents.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform - Research

LG-71-17-0124-17

Kent State University's KNEXT project will bring advanced data analytics and business intelligence (DA&BI) services to public libraries in order to support small businesses, entrepreneurs, and community advocates. This project will further develop a coalition of academic, public libraries, small business development centers, small businesses, and community advocates by identifying sources of useful data (national, state, county); consolidating data in a repository for long-term access and delivery; and creating a platform and dashboard for libraries to provide DA&BI services to the community using machine learning, data mining, web mining, and text analytics.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-71-17-0159-17/proposals/lg-71-17-0159-17-full-proposal-documents.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform - Research

LG-71-17-0159-17

The Digital Curation Innovation Center at the University of Maryland's iSchool will research, develop, and test software architectures to improve the performance and scalability of the Fedora repository. This project will create a new Fedora implementation without current performance bottlenecks relating to storage size, enabling institutions to manage Fedora repositories with petabyte-scale collections. It will apply the new Fedora 5 application programming interface (API) to a repository software stack called DRAS-TIC. Fedora community partners will be engaged to help develop use cases and performance expectations. The project will produce open source software, tested system configurations, documentation, and best-practice guides.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-71-17-0202-17/proposals/lg-71-17-0202-17-full-proposal-documents.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform - Research

LG-71-17-0202-17

The University of North Texas Libraries and the Computer Science and Engineering Department will research the efficacy of using machine-learning algorithms to identify and extract publications contained in web archives. The overarching goal of this project is to understand if machine-learning models can successfully identify content-rich PDF and Word documents from web archives that align with library and archives collecting plans. The researchers are working in two phases. They are first increasing their understanding of the workflows, practices, and selection criteria of librarians and archivists through ethnographic-based observations and interviews. Next, this increased understanding informs the use of novel machine-learning techniques to identify content-rich publications collected in existing web archives. Identifying these documents will empower libraries, archives, and museums to meet their curatorial missions.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-74-17-0134-17/proposals/lg-74-17-0134-17-full-proposal-documents.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform - Sparks

LG-74-17-0134-17

ArtCenter College of Design's College Library will develop and test best practices for archivists and librarians working with designers to develop digital tools and interfaces for archives and special collections. The project will bridge the disparate perspectives and vocabularies of librarians, archivists and technology designers with the aim of distilling essential expertise from both fields. The results, in the form of practical, easily understood pointers and sample work processes, will be shared in a national white paper and online content to be disseminated widely through targeted channels to the library and design sectors.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-74-17-0161-17/proposals/lg-74-17-0161-17-full-proposal-documents.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform - Sparks

LG-74-17-0161-17

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries will demonstrate and provide tools and data for opening access to the large body of scholarly and general serial literature from 1923-1963 that is in the public domain, but not freely accessible online. Though libraries hold many serials published after 1922 that are in the public domain and contain unique and valuable information for researchers, most have not been made available online due to the uncertainty and difficulty of establishing their copyright status. The project will result in a complete, searchable inventory of serials with issue and contribution renewals made between 1950 and 1977, as well as procedures for using the inventory and other data to decide whether a portion of a serial is in the public domain.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-74-17-0190-17/proposals/lg-74-17-0190-17-full-proposal-documents.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform - Sparks

LG-74-17-0190-17

The University of Washington Health Sciences Library will plan, design, build, test, and assess a Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) program and studio for medical professionals in a health sciences library environment. They will then develop a "how to" primer for other libraries across the country. With this primer, medical and research libraries will be able to design, plan, implement, and evaluate VR and AR studios for healthcare team use in an easy to understand format. Since scholarly and medical literature are now almost entirely digital, providing the space, technology, and expertise for using VR and AR equipment can allow medical libraries to bring researchers and clinicians back into the library space.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/lg-70-16-0047-16_proposal_documents.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform

LG-70-16-0047-16

The State of New Mexico's Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, in collaboration with the New Mexico State Library Tribal Libraries Program and the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, will create tools to extend the capacities of Omeka-S, a widely-used open source content management system. The suite of architectural and interactive features will include the translation of images stored in Omeka-S to the International Image Interoperability Format (IIIF), and enhanced tools for user tagging and annotations. Code for the tools will be shared openly on GitHub and with the Omeka-S community. The project will also result in the development of a model use case, demonstrating the technical and community impacts of the tools. A fellowship program will support the participation of individuals from New Mexico's Native communities in the development of the model use case.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/lg-73-16-0003-16_proposal_documents.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform

LG-73-16-0003-16

The Amistad Research Center, in collaboration with the Shorefront Legacy Center, the South Asian American Digital Archive, Mukurtu, and the Inland Empire Memories Project of the University of California-Riverside, will use a National Forum grant to host a series of meetings that will focus on integrating community archives in the National Digital Platform. The four meetings will convene a diverse group of community archives curators and practitioners, community members, scholars, and digital collections leaders, to discuss broader inclusion of these materials in national digital collections. Outcomes of the project will include a summary white paper providing recommendations for increased representation of marginalized communities and people in our digital cultural heritage.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/lg-70-16-0023_proposal_narrative.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform

LG-70-16-0023-16

The Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab, in cooperation with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and over 130 partner libraries will sustainably scale a tool - Perma.cc - to combat link rot in all scholarly fields. Link rot happens when a hyperlink on a webpage points to a website or online resource that is no longer available. It is a serious problem affecting as much as 70 percent of all scholarly articles in law, medicine, science, and technology, causing irreversible harm to the digital scholarly record. Building on solutions and approaches developed in the field of legal scholarship, this project will grow the Perma library coalition and tackle link rot in other fields. Through this project, the team will scale a proven technology and approach sustainably by designing, testing and launching a service that can subsidize the services offered to those supported by academic library partners.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/lg-70-16-0010_proposal_narrative.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform

LG-70-16-0010-16

Minitex, in partnership with the Massachusetts Library System (MLS) and Reaching Across Illinois Library System (RAILS), will enhance SimplyE, an open source e-reader designed specifically to streamline and improve the e-book circulation process for library patrons. SimplyE, which is currently designed to provide a seamless user experience for public library patrons, will be modified for academic, public, and school library users. SimplyE will become an even more effective element of the National Digital Platform by making the access and discoverability of e-books easier for all library users. The project partners will represent the needs of a broad range of library users, enabling the design and development of features that will allow for the participation of schools, research libraries, and consortia with shared e-book collections. In addition, this project will address the viability of expanding interlibrary loan (ILL) of e-books by exploring ILL policies and functionality for SimplyE.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/lg-70-16-0038_proposal_narrative.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform

LG-70-16-0038-16

The University of Wisconsin and partners will collaborate to develop digital library design guidelines on accessibility, usability, and utility for blind and visually impaired (BVI) users. The project is motivated by the belief that approximately 20.6 million Americans with significant vision loss cannot use digital libraries effectively due to their sight-centered design. Accessibility guidelines exist but fail to address help-seeking situations of blind and visually impaired (BVI) users in their interactions with digital libraries. Consequently, digital library providers are unable to reach the BVI community, and comply effectively with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). This project generate three products: 1) digital library design guidelines, organized by types of help-seeking situations associated with accessibility, usability, and utility; 2) a report on the current status of how digital libraries satisfy BVI users' help needs; and 3) a methodology that can be applied to other underserved user groups to develop similar guidelines.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/lg-71-16-0037_proposal_narrative.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform

LG-71-16-0037-16

Virginia Tech Libraries, in partnership with the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science, as well as the University of North Texas Department of Library and Information Sciences, will engage in a two-year research grant to develop a broadly adaptable library cyberinfrastructure strategy for big data sharing and reuse. The strategy is based on intelligently matching and synthesizing five types of existing cyberinfrastruture options against key requirements extracted from three representative library big data services. The strategy will be validated against different experimental deployments of these services.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/lg-70-16-0056_propsoal_narrative.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform

LG-70-16-0056-16

The Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA) project aggregates archaeological and historical data from state and tribal governmental authorities that manage North American cultural resources east of the Mississippi River. This project will expand DINAA to encompass the remainder of the United States, building rich chronological, legal, and environmental metadata for between two and three million archaeological sites. This work will contribute to the national digital platform by providing researchers, museums, libraries, government offices, and members of the public the largest and most comprehensive Linked Open Data gazetteer of historical and archaeological sites in the United States. Curating these data will improve government-to-government relationships needed by sovereign tribal nations to effectively manage and protect ancestral cultural heritage.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/lg-70-16-0009_proposal_narrative.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform

LG-70-16-0009-16

The University of Texas at Austin will significantly expand the usefulness of the PeriodO platform and dataset beyond archaeology to meet the needs of a broader audience of librarians, data managers, scholars, and students across the academic spectrum. Over the course of this two - year phase, the project will complete a set of visualization tools for searching and filtering in the graphic user interface and provide workshops with partners from a wide range of disciplines such as modern history, literature, library science, and museum studies, to explore the role PeriodO might play in the management and discoverability of their data.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/lg-70-16-0079_proposal_narrative.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform

LG-70-16-0079-16

Rhizome, an international born-digital art organization, in partnership with Yale University and the University of Freiburg, will enhance a set of software tools connecting archives of digital artifacts and emulation frameworks. The project will greatly increase the viability of emulation as a preservation strategy by making environments of legacy software manageable for collection managers. This proposed project responds to the disparity between the proven viability of emulation as a digital preservation strategy and the practical needs of collection managers.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/lg-70-16-0076_proposal_narrative_0.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform

LG-70-16-0076-16

The Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University will develop a service proxy layer on top of the Fedora 4 software platform that will facilitate the exposure of repository contents as linked data web resources. There is an existing user base of Fedora software for institutional repositories that will grow given the important enhancements and robustness offered by Fedora 4. By providing architecture to deploy repository services as lightweight extensions, institutions that use Fedora 4 for their institutional repository needs would be automatically positioned to extend their platforms for more robust data management. As federal funding agencies respond to the White OSTP memoranda regarding public access to publications and data, it is becoming clear that simply depositing and subsequently downloading data will not be sufficient. The proposed work supports a vision of data management where data are packaged with information graphs that capture and preserve connections to publications and software.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/lg-73-16-0040_proposal_narrative.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform

LG-73-16-0040-16

Cornell University Library, in partnership with the Library of Congress, OCLC, the Program for Cooperative Cataloging, the ORCID organization, the Coalition for Networked Information, the Social Networks and Archival Context Cooperative, the BIBFLOW project, Stanford University Library and Harvard Library will hold a national forum on issues concerning local name authorities. Name authority files provide unique identifiers and records for people to ensure consistency in creation of descriptive metadata." Libraries create local authorities to serve a variety of purposes, usually within an institutional context; but these authorities have significant potential for reuse at other cultural heritage organizations and beyond. The April 2015 IMLS National Digital Platform Forum report emphasized the importance of enabling technologies (e.g., interoperability via linked data) and radical collaborations in supporting the mission of the cultural heritage sector. By facilitating a national forum, we plan to identify solutions for facilitating the creation of more shareable authorities.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/lg-72-16-0002_proposal_narrative.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform

LG-72-16-0002-16

For libraries taking the first step into Linked Open Data (LOD), using controlled vocabularies is an essential part of creating new data structures linking people, places, collections, and digital objects together. The Western Name Authority File (WNAF) is a first step in collaboratively analyzing existing vocabularies, developing a data model, exploring infrastructure, and testing workflows that could be used throughout the Mountain West Digital Library network of partners. Building on existing work at the University of Utah of reconciling digital collection metadata fields against existing controlled vocabularies, this project explores creating a regional vocabulary in an open and shareable format using a process that can be replicated for other regions.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/lg-73-16-0006_proposal_narrative.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform

LG-73-16-0006-16

The Florida State University's collaborative planning project addresses the IMLS priority of establishing a shared national digital platform. It will explore researcher participation in research identity management systems. In particular, it will examine researcher perceived value of research identity metadata, motivations to participate in and commit to online research identity management systems, and contribute to research identity data curation. The National Digital Platform proposed by the IMLS community, in addition to shared content, software, and hardware modules, may need to provide shared research-based knowledge for effective design, configuration, and management of those resources. A shared design knowledge base is necessary to design effective access to library resources, to recruit users, to build communities around those resources, and to engage them in library events and activities, which may include the curation of research identity and authority data. This project will contribute towards that need.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-70-16-0054-16/proposals/lg-70-16-0054-16_proposal_documents.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform

LG-70-16-0054-16

Washington State University will extend the functionality of the free and open source platform Mukurtu, a content management system and community archive platform built with indigenous communities to manage and share digital cultural heritage. Working with partners including the University of Hawaii's Department of Linguistics, the Alaska Native Language Archives, the University of Oregon Libraries, the University of Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Library Services, and Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, WSU will create a set of national Mukurtu Hubs. Hubs will contribute to the ongoing development and deployment of the platform, as well as provide training and support to tribal archives, libraries, and museums. The project will expand the reach of the software and ensure its sustainability.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-70-16-0114-16/proposals/lg-70-16-0114-16_proposal_documents.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform

LG-70-16-0114-16

This project will help libraries explore dramatically expanding internet access in their communities by using TVWhiteSpace (TVWS), a new low-cost wireless technology. This project will be led by San Jose State University's School of Information. Key collaborators, including the Gigabit Libraries Network, the School, Health, & Libraries Broadband Coalition, the National Digital Inclusion Alliance, and the Information Technology Disaster Resource Center, will explore dramatically expanding digital access/inclusion and modes to provide connectivity as part of disaster preparedness.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-71-16-0028-16/proposals/lg-71-16-0028-16_proposal_documents.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform

LG-71-16-0028-16

The "Transforming Libraries and Archives through Crowdsourcing" project, a research partnership between Adler Planetarium's Library and researchers at Oxford University, will greatly expand the capacity for libraries and archives across the country to use crowdsourcing techniques to engage with audiences and improve access to digital collections through the Zooniverse. The Zooniverse, an international crowdsourcing organization with 1.4 million volunteers, is poised to serve as a transformative element in the future of library and archive engagement efforts and as a core component of the national digital platform. Through this effort, the team will develop a series of library/archive Zooniverse projects that explore improvements to full text and audio transcription and image annotation crowdsourcing tools and research differences between transcribing in isolation versus with knowledge of others' transcription. Lessons learned from these projects will be incorporated into the Project Builder, which enables anyone to build a crowdsourcing project for free.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-71-16-0152-16/proposals/lg-71-16-0152-16_proposal_documents.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform

LG-71-16-0152-16

The Image Analysis for Archival Discovery (Aida) research team at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will investigate the use of image analysis as a methodology for content identification, description, and information retrieval in digital libraries and other digitized collections. The project will focus on identifying poetic and advertising content in digitized historic newspapers. Using a machine learning approach, the project will result in an intelligent computational system that can process digital images and identify these specific types of content. The tools and methodologies produced will improve libraries' capacity to identify digital content at and below the item level, and increase access to information currently obscured in large digital collections.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-72-16-0113-16/proposals/lg-72-16-0113-16_proposal_documents.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform

LG-72-16-0113-16

Historypin, a free international platform for sharing culture and heritage, will work with tribal libraries in New Mexico and California to develop an online and in-person community memory program. The program will aim to build capacity, strengthen communities, and decrease social isolation through technology training and intergenerational programming around shared cultural heritage. The planning process will engage a diverse group of communities, moving toward a simple and scalable digital program with training and evaluation modules that can be conducted within the limits of under-resourced rural tribal libraries. Project partners include the New Mexico State Library's Tribal Library Program and the University of California, Riverside, who will contribute to state-level planning and coordination activities.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-72-16-0122-16/proposals/lg-72-16-0122-16_proposal_documents.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform

LG-72-16-0122-16

The University of Notre Dame's Hesburgh Libraries will conduct a planning effort with support from the Center for Open Science (COS) and a range of additional stakeholders to address needs for preserving data and software. The goal is to collaboratively design an interoperable and repository agnostic Data and Software Preservation Quality Tool. The planning process will consider existing solutions to better represent digital workflow methodologies, improve data and software provenance, automatically enhance metadata, perform schema validation, improve file format recognition, interoperability, data integrity, and ultimately facilitate reproducibility. Information gathered during panels, workshops, and meetings will be preserved and shared transparently using a free online presentation sharing service. This input will form the basis for a collaboratively authored planning report which will include detailed technical and administrative project plans.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-72-16-0130-16/proposals/lg-72-16-0130-16_proposal_documents.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform

LG-72-16-0130-16

Through this planning project, Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) will pilot BKLYN Link, a community-driven mesh network providing free broadband access and a technology-based fellowship program for young adults ages 18-24. A mesh network is a wireless network that uses radio nodes and laptops, cell phones, and other wireless devices to provide reliable access to the Internet. BPL will conduct community asset mapping in three low-income Brooklyn neighborhoods to identify which community is best positioned to host a mesh network; plan the technical structure of a mesh network and develop user policies and procedures; design a technology-based youth fellowship program that would teach young adults to install and maintain the mesh network; pilot a five-month abbreviated version of the fellowship; and develop a "playbook" of strategies and tools for deepening community engagement and launching a mesh network.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-72-16-0135-16/proposals/lg-72-16-0135-16_proposal_documents.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform

LG-72-16-0135-16

Northwestern University Libraries, in collaboration with the University of California San Diego Library, will explore issues related to the integration of local services with distributed preservation networks such as the Digital Preservation Network (DPN), Chronopolis, and the Academic Preservation Trust (APTrust). To ensure the research is useful to a range of institutions, a targeted group of organizations representing a variety of types of libraries, archives, museums, and preservation solutions, will be surveyed. The project team will explore questions related to topics including digital object curation, versioning and metadata in dark preservation systems, and interoperability of various systems, in order to develop broadly-applicable solutions and design patterns.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-73-16-0096-16/proposals/lg-73-16-0096-16_proposal_documents.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform

LG-73-16-0096-16

The University of California Santa Barbara will hold a series of meetings to develop strategies around library collections that support computationally-driven research and teaching. Partner organizations include University of Pennsylvania, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Penn State University, Emory University, and Texas A&M University, and meeting attendees will include librarians, archivists, museum professionals, technologists, researchers, and practitioners. The project will lead to the creation of a framework to support library collections as data, the identification of methods for making computationally-amenable library collections more discoverable, use cases and user stories for such collections, and guidance for future technical development.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-73-16-0126-16/proposals/lg-73-16-0126-16_proposal_documents.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform

LG-73-16-0126-16

The Northeastern University Library's Digital Scholarship Group will hold a series of meetings to inform and support the development of a teaching and learning toolkit focused on the handling of diversity within the design of information management systems, interfaces, and protocols. The toolkit will address topics including: the effects of tools and interfaces on interactions with documents and items, commonalities and differences between communities of users, and the influence of knowledge representation and other forces on the design of tools and interfaces. These issues will be discussed at an opening forum event, followed by a second meeting of a small design group to draft a toolkit of teaching and learning materials. Those materials will be circulated for public comment, and discussed in detail at a concluding open forum, whose results will be used to create a final version of the toolkit.

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-70-16-0093-16/proposals/lg-70-16-0093-16_proposal_documents.pdf

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Digital Platform

LG-70-16-0093-16

The California Digital Library, in partnership Harvard Library and UCLA Library will develop Cobweb, an open-source collaborative collection development platform for creating comprehensive Web archives by coordinating the activities of the Web archiving community. The project consists of four coordinated and complementary activities: developing the open source Cobweb system; user interface design and usability testing; community outreach and engagement; and production deployment. The shared curatorial decision-making enabled by Cobweb will benefit the libraries and archives already engaged in Web archiving as well as those that have not yet started, and it will help them make better informed decisions regarding the allocation of their finite resources. As a tool for managing our digital heritage, Cobweb furthers IMLS's efforts towards developing a national digital platform.

https://www.neh.gov/sites/default/files/inline-files/harvard_university_creating_a_consolidated_archaeological_reference_database_for_the_giza_project.pdf

National Endowment for the Humanities

Humanities Collections and Reference Resources

The Giza Project, a collaborative international initiative based at Harvard University, focuses on collection, electronic preservation, study, and presentation of documentary records from the world's most famous archaeological site: the Giza Pyramids of Egypt and their surroundings (3rd millennium BCE–present). The Project is one of extremely few to combine two major approaches to digital archaeology: digitizing archival collections and applying that primary data to visualize ancient monuments and lifeways in computer renderings. Work proceeds through two coordinated tracks: Data/Informatics (Track 1) and Modeling/Visualization (Track 2). Track 1 was the focus of a previously awarded HCRR grant. Incorporation into the database of Track 2's Project-generated archaeologically-accurate 3D computer models of monuments, objects, and individuals (as avatars) associated with Giza (as well as related source files and documentation employed in the construction of these models) is proposed here.

Peter Der Manuelian

https://www.neh.gov/sites/default/files/inline-files/california_state_university_dominguez_hills_digitizing_records_about_the_world_war_ii_internment_of_.pdf

National Endowment for the Humanities

Humanities Collections and Reference Resources

A consortium of California State University archives requests support for an Implementation project for the digitization of documents concerning the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. This proposal to digitize the extensive holdings of Japanese American materials in 15 CSU archives consists of four major steps: digitizing the materials, creating descriptive metadata for 5000+ digital objects, creating access through the project portal for online discoverability, and contextualizing the objects with website enhancements. With the assistance of the archivists, associated staff, and consultants, this project will greatly enhance the existing beta-website (csujad.com) where all of the digital files and associated metadata are centralized. As a result of the NEH Foundations grant, the project plan has been vetted and formulated through onsite visits to seven campus archives, a two-day scholar's symposium, meetings, conference calls, and assessment activities.

https://www.neh.gov/sites/default/files/inline-files/bryn_mawr_college_documenting_the_student_experience_at_the_seven_sisters_colleges.pdf

National Endowment for the Humanities

Humanities Collections and Reference Resources

Bryn Mawr College, in collaboration with Barnard College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Vassar College, Wellesley College, and the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, seeks support for a project to build a rich digital collection of student letters, diaries, scrapbooks and photographs documenting the experiences of women college students from the mid-nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries. More than 50,000 pages of these student documents will be digitized during the course of the project, and they will be searchable through the new portal College Women: Documenting the History of Women in Higher Education (www.collegewomen.org), developed with the support of an NEH Foundations grant in 2014-2015.

https://www.neh.gov/sites/default/files/inline-files/barnum_museum_foundationdigitizing_the_pt_barnum_collections.pdf

National Endowment for the Humanities

Humanities Collections and Reference Resources

The Barnum Museum Foundation, Inc. seeks $214,123 in funding to enable The Barnum Museum and the Bridgeport Public Library to conserve, catalog, digitize and create global access to important humanities collections. The twenty-month long project, from May 1, 2016, to Dec. 31, 2017, is designed to implement a plan developed over the course of a year with an NEH HCRR Foundations grant (awarded April 2013). The plan will allow the institutions to realize their objectives of preserving and creating access to the significant collections of artifacts, ephemera, and manuscripts pertaining to P. T. Barnum and many of his associates, as well as items donated by Barnum and his family. Barnum's international fame has endured because of his extraordinary and diverse achievements, which reach far beyond his well-known circus endeavors.

Adrienne Saint-Pierre

https://www.neh.gov/sites/default/files/inline-files/philadelphia_museum_of_artbuilding_a_duchamp_ressearch_portal.pdf

National Endowment for the Humanities

Humanities Collections and Reference Resources

The Philadelphia Museum of Art respectfully requests a three-year $350,000 NEH Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Implementation Grant to support the creation of an online research portal to provide access to digitized archival materials created by or related to Marcel Duchamp. The Duchamp Research Portal will unify the Museum's voluminous digitized holdings with those of our two partner institutions—the Association Marcel Duchamp and the Musée national d'art moderne Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris)—making the bulk of Duchamp's archival materials, consisting of approximately 60,516 documents, accessible and discoverable through a single interface built on Linked Open Data. The Portal will constitute a learning resource of incalculable value, one we anticipate will generate substantial new contributions to scholarship on the life and work of one of the twentieth century's most significant artists.

https://www.neh.gov/sites/default/files/inline-files/barnum_museum_planning_to_digitize_the_collections.pdf

National Endowment for the Humanities

Humanities Collections and Reference Resources

The Barnum Museum Foundation, Inc. requests a grant of $40,000 that will enable The Barnum Museum and Bridgeport Public Library to work with a team of consultants to create a comprehensive plan for digitization and global access to important humanities collections. The year-long project is designed to result in the ???road map??? critical to implementing a well-managed digitization project that can fully realize its objectives for preservation and access. The project will improve intellectual control of the two institutions??? related P. T. Barnum collections, and incorporate a range of activities that utilize the knowledge, experience and expertise of the team members. The project will lead to a plan for broad access to these significant humanities resources and create digital content that would be placed in an aggregate digital resource repository with a curated platform.

Adrienne Saint-Pierre

https://www.neh.gov/sites/default/files/inline-files/st_johns_university_ensuring_access_to_endangered_and_inaccessible_manuscripts.pdf

National Endowment for the Humanities

The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) at Saint John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota, seeks support for the next phase of development for its recently-launched vHMML platform for manuscript studies (www.vhmml.org). vHMML 1.0 was released in October 2015 with resources to support the use of manuscripts in research; vHMML 2.0 launched in August 2016 with an online Reading Room that is making tens of thousands of otherwise inaccessible and often endangered manuscript books and archival documents available to users around the world free of charge. NEH funding will make it possible to create vHMML 3.0, with greatly increased discoverability of manuscripts and metadata, and much richer data sharing with other digital humanities projects. vHMML 3.0 will add features requested by partner projects and researchers, and NEH support in both outright and matching funds will sustain the human resources needed to guarantee best-practice administration and continued development of vHMML.

https://www.neh.gov/sites/default/files/inline-files/james_madison_university_circulating_american_magazines_0.pdf

National Endowment for the Humanities

Although digitization has made more periodical content available to historians, literary critics, and print culture specialists, scholars remain largely in the dark about periodicals’ reach. Circulating American Magazines offers tools to analyze and visualize circulation data for historically significant magazines between 1880 and 1972. Using detailed reports from the Audit Bureau of Circulations and the advertising firm N.W. Ayer & Son, this project provides complete access to circulation numbers by issue, in addition to each title’s geographical circulation across the United States and abroad. The project offers web-based visualization tools that allow students and scholars to investigate the history of a magazine or compare multiple magazines’ readership. The project’s centralization of circulation data allows students and scholars to see American periodical history in radically new ways, describing periodicals’ development with an accuracy that has not been possible before.