Project Grant RB5010710

The Internet Archive received a $319,880 National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (CFDA 45.312) to expand and enhance the Archives Research Compute Hub (ARCH), an open-source platform supporting computational analysis of web archives collections. The project will create user-informed workflows and continue software development to enable a diverse set of library, archive, and museum partners to add collections to ARCH for upload, discovery, and computational...

This $974,414 federal Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants program supports George Mason University, in collaboration with several partners, to develop a community archiving prototype and training materials. The key objectives are to: (1) create the Archives for Racial and Cultural Healing (ARCH) National Collaborative, (2) support the Chipman ARCH project as a prototype and develop curriculum/practices for future ARCH regional...

This $512,386 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.070 Computer and Information Science and Engineering) supports the development of tools to secure the publication, authentication, and distribution of laws and other legal information, in order to protect the reliability and trustworthiness of digital legal systems that are critical to democracy. Key products and services to be delivered include: Long-term solutions for securely distributing, archiving, and accessing...

This $1,500,000 Project Grant, awarded by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) under the National Historical Publications and Records Grants program (CFDA 89.003), supports a project to create a Digital Archives Portal for Congressional Archives to improve public access to historical records. The project involves the West Virginia University Research Corporation as the prime awardee, with sub-awards to the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc., University of Hawaii,...

The Black Archives History Research Foundation of South Florida was awarded a $719,535 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture program to expand public access to its collections through digitization and virtual research services. Specifically, the Foundation will purchase archival supplies and a large format scanner to digitize its periodical collection, notably the Miami Times collection of South...

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) awarded a $194,660 Project Grant under the National Historical Publications and Records Grants program (CFDA 89.003) to the Brooke County Library Foundation, Inc. in Wellsburg, WV. The grant will support a project to preserve, digitize, and provide public access to historical records and documentary sources related to United States history. Specific activities may include digitizing archival collections, creating online editions of...

The Internet Archive, in partnership with the New York Art Resources Consortium, will receive $266,553 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the National Leadership Grants program (CFDA 45.312) to create a cooperative program for archiving and providing access to web-published art and cultural heritage collections. From September 2021 to August 2023, the project will work with art libraries and museums across the United States to coordinate the curation and archiving of primary...

The San Diego Air & Space Museum received a $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) under the National Historical Publications and Records Grants program (CFDA 89.003). The grant supports the museum's efforts to preserve, digitize, and provide public access to historical aerospace records and artifacts. Specifically, the funding will enable the museum to catalog and digitize approximately 120,000 historical images from the Consolidated...

The 1947 Partition Archive will receive $161,717 under a Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program to pilot the Digital Oral History Archivist Student Fellowship Program. The Fellowship will introduce high school and college students, particularly those from South Asian American backgrounds, to the field of community-based archives through hands-on experiences in cataloging, handling, and preserving digitally archived oral...

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...