Project Grant HD5151312

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $1.25 million Project Grant to the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program (CFDA 45.149). The funding will support the Foundation's implementation of a digital preservation and enhanced access strategy for its Interviews: An Oral History of Television collection from June 2022 through May 2025. The collection comprises over 3,000 hours...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), through its Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149), awarded a $349,009 Project Grant to the Northeast Document Conservation Center, Inc. (NEDCC) to develop tools and workflows for preserving digital audio tape (DAT) collections. The project aims to address the lack of accessible preservation solutions for accurately transferring audio and metadata from the at-risk DAT format, which is likely to contain unique content. The key...

The Bay Area Video Coalition, Incorporated (BAVC) received a $215,186 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program. The grant will fund a national study of audiovisual preservation to be conducted between March 2023 and February 2025. As part of the study, BAVC will design and implement surveys, interviews, and site visits to assess the demographics, practices, challenges, and needs of organizations...

The University of Wisconsin System, through its University of Wisconsin - Madison division operating as Research and Sponsored Programs, has been awarded a two-year, $272,004 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The grant will fund the digitization, preservation, and online accessibility of the video collection of artist Wendy Clarke spanning nearly 30 years. Clarke's...

The Academy Foundation, on behalf of a consortium of film archives and libraries, received a $1,589,350 National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (CFDA 45.312) to develop, test, and launch a free open access database and data sharing platform. This project aims to improve identification and access to underrepresented films and filmmakers across intersections of race, gender, ethnicity, ability, and sexuality in the nation's film collections. The database will...

The University of Richmond received a $179,287.71 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169) to develop the Distant Viewing Toolkit (DVT) for the Cultural Analysis of Moving Images. The NEH Office of Digital Humanities program supports innovative humanities projects that utilize or study the impact of digital technology. Under this award effective October 1, 2018 through April...

This federal Project Grant award of $349,423.00 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) supports the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) in expanding its "Circle of Care for Audiovisual Collections in Tribal Archives" initiative. The project aims to train tribal archivists and librarians in assessing, inventorying, digitizing, and managing audiovisual collections. Key activities include onsite workshops...

Myriad Consulting & Training Inc. was awarded a $347,587 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program. Under this funding, Myriad will develop and deliver a hybrid remote/in-person training program to six regions of the U.S. The program will provide workshops and community events focused on preserving born-digital creative works for smaller cultural institutions and independent creators. As...

The Academy Foundation, on behalf of a national consortium of film archives and libraries, was awarded a $211,540 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' National Leadership Grants program (CFDA 45.312) to research and design a searchable online resource for underrepresented film collections. The grant-funded project will develop a dataset gathering individuals and film titles from secondary sources related to social, gender, racial, ethnic, ability, sexual...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Documentary Educational Resources Inc. a $99,899 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program (CFDA 45.149). The grant funded the CINEPEDIA ETHNOGRAPHICA project to develop an online expert- and user-generated union catalog for ethnographic film. The catalog will provide intellectual access and help preserve primary ethnographic film resources held in libraries, museums, and...