Digitizing Historical Records

Post Date

December 7th 2007

Application Due Date

June 2nd 2008

Funding Opportunity Number

DIGITIZING-08

CFDA Number(s)

89.003

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Grant

Funding Activity Categories

Humanities

Eligibility Categories

State Governments
County Governments
City or Township Governments
Public and State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education
Federally Recognized Native American Tribal Governments
Non-Profits With 501 (c) (3) Status With The IRS (Except Higher Education Institutions)
Private Institutions of Higher Education

Funding

• Award Range:

  $0 - $150000

Grant Description

The National Historical Publications and Records Commission promotes the preservation and use of America's documentary heritage essential to understanding our democracy, history, and culture. The Commission seeks proposals that use cost-effective methods to digitize nationally-significant historical record collections and make the digital versions freely available on the Internet. Project must make use of existing holdings of historical repositories and be made up of entire collections or series. The materials should already be available to the public at the archives and described so that projects can re-use existing information to create metadata for the digitized collection. Applicants must have the permission of all relevant copyright holders, where possible. To make these projects as widely useful as possible for archives, historical repositories, and researchers, the applications will be evaluated on: The national significance of the collections or records series to be digitized; An effective work flow that repurposes existing descriptive material, rather than create new metadata about the records; Reasonable costs and standards for the project as well as sustainable preservation plans for the resulting digital records; Well-designed plans that evaluate the use of the digitized materials and the effectiveness of the methods employed in digitizing and displaying the materials.

Contact Information

• Agency

  National Archives and Records Administration

• Office:

  None

• Agency Contact:

  David Davis
  Grants Workflow & Info. Coord.
  Phone 202-357-5022

• Agency Mailing Address:

  Grants Workflow & Information Coordinator

• Agency Email Address:

  david.davis@nara.gov

• More Information:

  Link to complete grant announcement