Project Grant ST251077OMS21
- The Boston Public Library Fund, Inc. received a $261,241 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169). The grant will support the Boston Public Library's Community History & Digitization Project, which aims to identify, digitize, preserve, and contextualize community-based archival collections for inclusion in the Boston Research Center. Key deliverables include examining,...
- This $510,213.00 project grant awarded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program will enable Historic Hudson Valley, a non-profit organization, to digitize and catalog a collection of 3,500 manuscripts. The project will also involve transcribing selections from the collection and creating an online public portal to provide access to the digitized materials. This will allow Historic Hudson Valley staff to better understand, care...
- This Project Grant award from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program (CFDA 15.814) provides $736,060 to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) to preserve and digitize two important collections of seismic data. The project will rebox and digitize analog seismic data from the John Carroll University Legacy Seismograms (1909-1992) and the Oxford Oil Company Seismic Reflection Data (1983-2006). The digitized data will be made...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $457,177 over 3 years to Arizona State University (ASU) to operate and maintain the Tudor Hill Marine Atmospheric Observatory (THMAO) in Bermuda. The project will: 1) Continue operating the state-of-the-art marine atmospheric sampling and observing facility at Tudor Hill, available to the broader U.S. and international research community; 2) Continue collecting and archiving atmospheric...
- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory will provide aircraft-derived atmospheric observations to improve weather forecasting models under a $520,500 cooperative agreement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Through the award's two-year period, MIT Lincoln Laboratory will extract meteorological data from commercial aircraft equipped with Mode S transponders using airport surveillance radars. This effort aims to increase the number, spatial resolution,...
- This Project Grant award, valued at $1,538,000, was provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Congressionally Identified Awards and Projects program (CFDA 11.469). The funding will support various projects at the Mount Washington Observatory (MWOBS) in New Hampshire, including upgrades to the Mount Washington Regional Mesonet (MWRM) network of 19 automated weather stations. This will enable increased research and public access to the observatory's weather...
- The Pikes Peak Library District Foundation will digitize its aerial photography collection from the Stewart Brothers Commercial Photographers Collection under a $228,969 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301). The Foundation will digitize thousands of photographic prints and negatives documenting Colorado Springs' growth from 1952 to 1995. It will hire a senior library associate to assist with prioritizing digitization of...
- This federal Project Grant award of $514,757 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Save America's Treasures (SAT) program (CFDA 15.929) will enable the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) to preserve, digitize, and increase public access to its historical collection of conductor scores and performance sets dating from the early 20th century to 1980. Project activities include cataloging, transporting, digitizing, storing, and publicly sharing this important collection,...
- The Bishop Museum was awarded a $491,368 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169). The grant will support the "Mau Ka Leo" project to digitize the Museum's collections and make them publicly accessible online through narrative components and multimedia created by Hawaiian staff. Specifically, the project will retain 15 positions and hire a digital humanities specialist to...
- The U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $488,099 Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) project grant to the Massachusetts Audubon Society, Inc. to develop and pilot the Climate Democracy Project. This place-based, project-based learning program will engage students in grades 8-12 across three predominantly low-income public schools in Massachusetts. The program will focus on educating students about climate change and climate justice, researching local impacts and...
THE BLUE HILL OBSERVATORY (BHO) WILL DIGITIZE 120 RECORD BOOKS OF THE CONTINUOUS HISTORY OF THE BLUE HILL METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATORY, A NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK THAT PLAYED A PIVOTAL ROLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF METEOROLOGY IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES. THESE HANDWRITTEN OBSERVATIONAL DATA, ONE OF THE OLDEST CONTINUOUS CLIMATE MONITORING SYSTEMS IN THE UNITED STATES, HAVE BEEN RECORDED IN BOUND JOURNALS SINCE 1885 AND ARE AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE BHO'S HISTORY, MISSION, AND INFRASTRUCTURE. DIGITIZATION WILL PRESERVE THESE VOLUMES AS WELL AS ALLOW EASIER ACCESS TO THIS DATA, WHICH IS RELATED TO INSTRUMENTATION, DAILY WEATHER CONDITIONS, ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING EFFORTS, AND CONTEMPORARY HISTORIC EVENTS. A REGIONAL CONSERVATION CENTER WILL UNDERTAKE DIGITIZATION AND CONSERVATION WORK IN TANDEM, CREATING FAITHFUL DIGITAL SURROGATES WHILE ALSO CONSTRUCTING ARCHIVAL STORAGE FOR EACH VOLUME.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $0 | 9/22/23 | ||
| Not listed | $90.7k | 9/10/21 |