Grantor: National Endowment for the Humanities
NEH Preservation and Access Program:
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in the United States and the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)of the United Kingdom acting through the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) in the United Kingdom are working together to offer support for digitization projects in the humanities. These grants provide funding for one year of development in any of the following areas: new digitization projects and pilot projects, the addition of important materials to existing digitization projects, or the development of infrastructure (either technical "middleware," tools, or knowledge-sharing) to support U.S.-England digitization work.
iFOSSF Co-op Eligible iFOSSF Partnership:
Non-profit
Eligible iFOSSF Partnership:
Scholar
Eligible iFOSSF Partnership:
University
iFOSSF Partnership Status:
Open
Open Call Ends:
10/05/2007 iFOSSF Submission Type:
new
Application:
Use general Open Call
Application form to apply.
Submission Guidelines:
US partner please review carefully the originial RFP on requirements.
English partners are encouraged to review the JISC guidelines for other information specific to institutions in England.
Grantor Official Deadline:
11/29/2007 Project Type:
Prototype/Development
Project Type:
Content/Publication
Award Funds Opportunity Overview Objectives:
Collaboration between U.S. and English institutions is a key requirement for this grant category, based in part on the recommendations for international collaboration in Professor Sir Gareth Roberts's "International Partnerships of Research Excellence U.K.-U.S.A Academic Collaboration " (25-page PDF) and the report (51-page PDF) of the American Council for Learned Societies' Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Expected Outcome:
Applications should explain the need for the U.S.-England partnership and provide workable solutions to some of the issues of managing and developing transatlantic collections. Thus, activities supported may include :
proposing methods to rejoin via digitization "split" humanities collections that currently exist on either side of the Atlantic;
developing a detailed plan for the digitization of humanities collections that could benefit U.S.-England research and performing a limited pilot digitization program to test infrastructure and procedures;
connecting existing split digitized collections, detailing suitable transatlantic standards and communication strategies;
creating a virtual archive or resource that would serve as middleware to join complementary materials (analog or digital) in the U.S. and England;
articulating how collaboration between U.S. and English digitization efforts might function, including but not limited to developing selection criteria, identifying the physical nature of the collection and its effect on digitization workflow, undertaking test data capture, identifying suitable standards for international collections, and indicating how collections could be exploited in U.S.- England research; and
comparing the needs of researchers in both the U.S. and England and their uses of digitized primary resources.
Successful applicants will be expected, as one of their work products, to create a white paper . This white paper should document their project, including lessons learned, so that others can benefit from their experience.