The National Endowment for the Humanities's Division of Preservation and Access has issued a call for proposals for Preservation and Access Research and Development grants. Application deadline: May 19, 2011.
Here's an excerpt from the announcement:
Eligible projects include:
- the development of technical standards, best practices, and tools for preserving and creating access to humanities collections;
- the exploration of more effective scientific and technical methods of preserving humanities collections;
- the development of automated procedures and computational tools to integrate, analyze, and repurpose humanities data in disparate online resources; and
- the investigation and testing of new ways of providing digital access to humanities materials that are not easily digitized using current methods.
NEH especially encourages applications that address the following topics:
- Digital Preservation: how to preserve digital humanities materials, including born-digital materials, for which there is no analog counterpart;
- Recorded Sound and Moving Image Collections: how to preserve and increase access to the record of the twentieth century contained in these formats; and
- Preventive Conservation: how to protect humanities collections and slow their deterioration through the use of sustainable preservation strategies.. . .
The maximum award is $350,000 for up to three years. Applicants whose projects focus on any of the three areas of special interest noted above may request up to $400,000.
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