Hidden Collections Registry - Dev

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• American and Catholic History at a Crossroads: Digitizing Catholic Newspapers from the Vatican II Era (1958-1972)

  The CRRA will digitize significant Catholic newspapers from Vatican II years, 1958-1972 and make them publicly available in the Catholic News Archive. Local papers include diocesan newspapers from Chicago, Hartford, Miami, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, and St. Louis; the national perspective represented by the Catholic News Service newsfeeds (the Catholic equivalent of Reuters) and the National Catholic Reporter. This project will digitize the papers and implement the publicly available Archive on the Veridian platform. Scholars note the importance of primary Catholic sources as the Church and the laity have shaped national policies, legislation and activities on major issues including civil rights,nuclear disarmament, the Vietnam War and subsequent anti-war movement, other world conflicts such as the Arab-Israeli Wars, and immigration. The significance of this project to scholars of American social, economic, and religious history is the ability to access and fully exploit these rich primary resources.

• Scopes Trial Online Archives: Context and Consequences of the "World's Most Famous Court Trial"

  The Scopes Trial Online Archives is a three-year, collaborative project to create a database of materials related to the historical and cultural context of the trial. This collaboration involves four local archives in Dayton, Tennessee, where the trial took place. Bryan College will contribute the Robinson Photography Collection, the college history collection, and trial materials (21.5 linear feet). The Clyde W. Roddy Public Library will contribute the Dayton Coal and Iron Collection (three linear feet) and a book of records from the founding of Rhea County. The Rhea County Historical Society will contribute trial records and the John R. Neal, Jr. Collection (ten linear feet). Core Academy of Science will contribute 118 Scopes-era books and pamphlets on the evolution controversies. Digitized materials will be deposited into an EPrints database containing a digital copy of the trial transcript. The database will be useful for research into religion, science, economics, and history.

• Sam Howe Ledgers: Uncovering Crime in the West

  History Colorado seeks to create public and scholarly access through cataloging and digitization of the Sam Howe Ledgers in our collection. In 1874, Sam Howe was appointed one of Denver's original thirteen policemen. These 71 ledgers, from 1863-1934, include indexes, scrapbooks, and murder case logs that document crime, criminology, and human behavior in Denver, Colorado. Howe served 47 years in law enforcement and meticulously clipped, indexed, and cross-referenced newspaper articles that reported on crime, criminals, and law enforcement in Denver. Due to their fragility, the collection has been closed to research with very few exceptions. With this one-year project starting in April 2017, we will scan, transcribe, and catalog all 71 ledgers and make them accessible online in their entirety. The ledgers provide a unique and detailed insight into the scholarship of race and ethnicity, socio-economic status, sex, age, and how they correlated with crime in Denver and the West.

• Digitizing Cavagna: Italian Imprints from the Sixteenth through the Nineteenth Centuries

  The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign proposes to digitize 320,000 pages of rare Italian imprints dating from the 16th through 19th centuries from the historically significant Cavagna Collection. This work builds on the CLIR-funded "Cataloging Cavagna" project (2015-2017), which has been progressing toward its goal of cataloging some 20,000 imprints using the innovative "Quick and Clean Rare Book Cataloging" model. Just as this project demonstrated a new approach for efficient and accurate rare book cataloging, "Digitizing Cavagna" will do the same for digitization by making high quality metadata and page images discoverable in the HathiTrust Digital Library. As such, "Digitizing Cavagna" will serve as a model for the digitization of rare imprints, while also making a rich collection accessible to scholars in multiple fields, including but not limited to Italian history, literature, art, theatre, law, economics, and religion.

• Bringing Vaudeville into the Limelight: A Digital Representation of the Vaudeville Era from Institutions Coast to Coast

  Over the course of 30 months, this joint initiative between Emerson College, University of Iowa and Marshall University will digitize and make accessible our institutions unique and complementary Vaudeville collections. We aim to create a digital representation of Vaudevillian materials in select academic institutions throughout the United States. Content will be hosted locally through our institution's digital repositories, and presented/contextualized through an aggregated online portal. Digital facsimiles will be included on the University of Iowa's popular DIY History crowdsourcing website for community transcription thus aiding the discoverability and interconnectedness of our collections. From the initial registration of an act with popular Vaudevillian registries, to the advertisement/payment of a performer, to ephemera collected to add to the historical record of Vaudeville in America, our proposed collaboration will track the life cycle of Vaudeville and offers the modern scholar an unprecedented level of access to Vaudevillian materials from disparate geographic locations.

• Lost in Balboa Park: Digitization and Online Access to The Veterans Museum at Balboa Park's Artifact and Library Collections

  With 17 museums, nine performing arts venues, 19 beautiful gardens, and the world-famous San Diego Zoo, San Diego's Balboa Park contains an astonishing array of treasures, including 700,000 collections objects, 150,000 research volumes, 7.7 million specimens, 5.5 million photographs, 120 million historic documents, and 4,000 annual music and theatrical performances and films. In spring 2015, the Balboa Park Online Collaborative (BPOC) launched the large-scale "Lost in Balboa Park" initiative in order to manage, digitize, and connect this diverse content to individuals. As part of the initiative's pilot phase, in 2017-2018 BPOC will focus on digitizing and making accessible The Veterans Museum at Balboa Park (VMBP)'s 10,000-plus artifact collection and related library materials. This project will not only help VMBP to fully understand the treasures it owns, but make them fully available to scholars, students, veterans, and the public for the first time in the museum's nearly 30-year history.

• Processing the Redevelopment Agency of the City of San José, from planning to implementation

  The California Room, a unit within the San José Public Library, a department of the City of San José, holds many unique materials chronicling the development of Northern California, emphasizing Santa Clara County. This 21 month project focuses on the photographs, maps and plans reflecting the physical changes to the landscape of the City of San José from 1870 - 2002. The present urban and rural landscape of Santa Clara County is a diverse complex social and economic setting within a rich historic, multi-cultural and natural environment. Digitization of an unprocessed collection and supporting materials will provide direct public access to the collection. Independent scholars and local historians use the collections for Historic Impact Reports, Environmental Impact Reports, community research, business history research, genealogical research and exhibits. The collections support research in the areas of History, Geography, Law and Politics, Philosophy, Conservation Science and Anthropology.

• Great Explorations: Increasing Online Access to Our Aerospace Heritage

  San Diego Air & Space Museum requests support to catalog and digitize 80,000 one-of-a-kind negatives from the Ryan Aeronautical Collection. Ryan developed many significant aircraft during its history, several of which were far ahead of their time. The Museum's collection documents the company's entire history. Although work has begun to index, preserve, catalog, and digitize portions of this collection, much work remains to ensure its availability for future educational and research purposes. Negatives digitized through this grant will be accessed through the Museum's website and Flickr account, reaching a wide public audience. Master image files will be 1200 DPI TIFFS, captured on flatbed scanners. Digitized records will be maintained in the Museum's digital asset management system (DAMS) and on library servers. Further, crowdsourcing will allow SDASM to enhance its records through public comments made on Flickr, which will be evaluated, confirmed, and captured in the DAMS.

• Digitizing the Archives of Texas Paleontology

  This project aims to digitize and digitally catalog the archives of the Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory (VPL) of The University of Texas at Austin over two years. The archival materials consist of 554 cubic feet (cf) of uncatalogued and undescribed maps, field notes, research permits, correspondence, images, artwork, and other documents relating to the history of paleontology in Texas and North America. The fossil holdings at VPL house approximately 250,000 cataloged specimens, the seventh largest vertebrate collection in the US. The archival materials represent the scientific and historic context for specimens collected from the late 19th century to the present day, and held in trust as a State, Federal, and Navajo Nation repository.

• Custom House Maritime Museum Digitization Project

  Currently the collection is not digitized, and is only available to local researchers and museum visitors. The Digitization project will digitize the entire collection, making it discoverable and open to the public.

• Building the New York City Subway: The Subway Construction Photograph Collection, 1900-1950

  During this one year project, the New-York Historical Society will digitize and make freely accessible the 66,000 photographic prints in the Subway Construction Photograph Collection, 1900-1950. When transportation agencies were contracted to build the New York City subways they had insurance photographs taken of every part of the city affected by the construction. The resulting images include surrounding buildings, street scenes, underground tunneling, sewer reconstruction, new stations, and workmen. They provide a remarkable view of the city's urban environment in the first half of the twentieth century, offering an extensive survey of commercial and residential structures along subway lines, glimpses of everyday life, and rich information on the development of a landmark public transportation system. Digitization of the collection will be outsourced, while metadata adaptation and creation will be done in-house. Once completed, researchers will be able to access the collection and its corresponding metadata through N-YHS's new Islandora platform.

• Skin in the Game: Digitization and Reassembly of William Miles' Black Champions Interviews

  The Skin in the Game project will provide complete public access for the first time to 32 interviews filmed by noted documentary filmmaker William Miles with prominent African-American athletes who broke down racial barriers and redefined the public image of African-Americans in sports. Conducted for the 1986 public television series, Black Champions, the interviews are held in the William Miles Collection at Washington University Libraries. Never before seen in their entirety, they feature stories from such legendary figures as Althea Gibson, Jim Brown and Sugar Ray Leonard. During the two-year project, an outside vendor will create digital video and audio files and initial metadata, and Libraries staff and student worker will reassemble the interviews, enhance metadata, and create fully-searchable interview transcripts and athlete biographies. We will provide complete public access to the interviews, transcripts, and metadata via the unrestricted, Hydra-based Goldenseal user interface, which offers synchronized video files and transcripts.

• Digital Preservation and Dissemination of Threatened 92Y Unterberg Poetry Center Audio Archives

  Since 1939, 92Y Unterberg Poetry Center has long been recognized as one of the world's leading literary centers. The tape-based audio archive of the Poetry Center dates back to 1949, and while the Center has been able to undertake digitization of select recordings in part due to funding from the National Endowment for the Arts Save America's Treasures grant, approximately 356 threatened recordings remain. The speakers featured in 92Y's collection of Poetry Center audio recordings render the collection a truly unique historical resource. While there are numerous venues that host lecture series and readings, few if any can match the historical breadth and depth of those hosted by 92Y, and the dedication of 92Y to celebrate and promote figures from every humanities field is unparalleled. Funding would ensure the long-term preservation of this invaluable collection and facilitate dramatically increased access to the collection.

• Digitization and creation of online access of General Electric historical photographs, 1880-1920

  miSci wishes to digitize and make accessible the 100,000 earliest images in the General Electric Photograph Collection. The project will focus on images from 1880-1920, which document the beginnings of the electrical industry, focusing on inventors, product development, installations of street lighting, and homefront response to World War I. Free online access will leverage existing relationships and utilize the New York Heritage online database, Digital Public Library of America, and miSci's own Vernon collections management system. miSci will hire two digitization technicians and three catalogers for the two years of the project. The project will take advantage of efficiencies in the both the scanning and metadata creation process. Scanning will be made efficient due to consistent image sizes and types. Project catalogers will also take advantage of pre-existing guides and templates, as well as the caption, date, and subject information included on each GE photograph to increase cataloging efficiency.

• Images of Indonesia: Photographs from the John M. Echols Collection on Southeast Asia

  The Images of Indonesia project will digitize photographs from the world renowned Echols Collection on Southeast Asia at Cornell University Library. The project is envisioned in two phases. The first phase, proposed for this grant, is slated to digitize and create metadata for 39,000 slides and 4,100 photographs from Bali, Indonesia over two years and represents a significant addition to the corpus of online material available to researchers. These images have a particular focus on food production and consumption as those relate to religion and culture. With the fourth largest total population, and the largest Muslim population in the world, Indonesia has, and continues to play a significant role in Southeast Asia and the larger world. The island of Bali, set apart from the majority of Indonesia because of its different religious background, provides a unique historical and cultural study. This project will greatly enhance our understanding of Indonesia.

• New Bauhaus & Institute of Design Online Archive (NB&IDOA)

  Illinois Institute of Technology, Paul V. Galvin Library, with the support of IIT's Institute of Design, proposes a twelve-month project to digitize a substantial portion of the Institute of Design Records, 1937-1955, to celebrate the Bauhaus centennial (1919-2019). The Institute of Design has given permission to share this trove of materials online, which include departmental records, correspondence, photographs, thesis materials, and departmental publications, which will be shared via an Islandora digital repository and will be discoverable through the Institute of Design Records finding aid. This project will make available a large collection of previously-hidden materials which are vital to the study of the Bauhaus movement throughout the world.

• How America's Pastime Influenced International Relations During Times of Conflict and Peace: Digitizing the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum's Archive of International Baseball

  Baseball and its cultural and historical impact have been felt around the world since the 19th century. World tours and Olympic Games brought baseball to European and Asian countries, providing a shared experience between cultures. During wartime, playing baseball overseas gave American soldiers a sense of normalcy during trying times, while at the same time helping to instill a love of the game in the local population. The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is proposing a 12 month project to digitize its international baseball collections, covering topics including World War I & II, the Olympics, and international goodwill tours. The project will make 28,050 digital images of the Hall's manuscript, photograph, ephemera, and scrapbook collections available to the public and each image will include enhanced metadata. An OpenSeadragon viewer will allow scholars, students and fans to zoom in on images and interact with the collection.

• Sir John and Mary Craig Scripture Collection: Revealing Pre-Nineteenth Century Book History and Print Culture

  The University of Saint Mary's Sir John and Mary Craig Scripture Collection holds over 2,000 religious themed bound volumes, from the 13th-18th centuries. These volumes and manuscripts shed light on the history of the book and printing as a craft and industry in Central and Western Europe, highlighting manuscript culture, paper, and printing. The digital collection will consist of material of particular significance to the history of the book, presenting examples from several centuries, from different countries of origin, and of disparate theological standpoints. Digitizing the material will provide open access and international scholarship opportunities through digital exhibits, digital collections, crowdsourcing projects, collaborative work, and will lift current outreach programming limitations.

• Preserving Park Slope: A Visual History of Urban Revival

  Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS) proposes a 19-month project to digitize, create item-level descriptive metadata for, and make accessible 40,000+ paper records, photographs, moving images, and audio recordings that document the grassroots efforts of Everett and Evelyn Ortner as leaders in NYC's historic preservation movement and urban revival movements across the country. BHS will make digital assets and corresponding metadata as accessible as possible to both local and remote researchers via a number of web-based access tools. Through high volume digitization and metadata creation, BHS will also develop efficient workflows in preparation for future large-scale digitization projects, enhancing the institution's digitization and descriptive manuals for moving images, audio, text and photographs into a general operating procedure for processing, description, and access. The strategies employed to broadly deploy our metadata will align with BHS's goal to keep systems modular and metadata interoperable.

• Plants from the Past: Herbarium Collections of Curtis Gates Lloyd (1859-1926) and E. Lucy Braun (1889-1971)

  Herbarium collections of preserved and archived plants from different localities and time periods are critical in understanding the past and current distribution of plant species. In addition to underlying taxonomic identification, these collections are an invaluable historical repository for studies of biodiversity and climate change. We propose to digitize two collections at the University of Cincinnati over 24 months: specimens collected worldwide by Curtis Gates Lloyd, a prominent botanist affiliated with a renown pharmaceutical company in the early 1900's, and E. Lucy Braun, the prominent forest ecologist and founder of field ecology in the 1900's. Together, these collections consist of 35,000 specimen sheets that can only be currently accessed by visiting the herbarium in person. We propose to use a digitization pipeline currently in use, and to feed into existing online resources to make these two hidden collections publicly available for use by the botanical community and historians worldwide.

• "Now is the Time for All Jewish Women to Rally": Organizing for Social Change in the 20th Century

  The Center for Jewish History will make discoverable the records of Jewish women social welfare organizers of the 20th century. These unsung activists' accomplishments include fighting the slave trade of vulnerable female immigrants circa 1900, running a refugee relief organization for German Jews in the 1930s, and organizing services for veteran's hospitals across the globe. The two-year project will highlight women-run organizations and feature one woman who led and worked with many organizations to serve refugees in times of crisis. To make these and other stories known, the Center will digitize 54 linear feet of archival materials from three collections of the American Jewish Historical Society, one of its five partners. The project will give scholars the opportunity to examine women's influence on social welfare work and trace the impact of activism on humanitarian crises that unfortunately bear some resemblance to those we face in present times.

• Visibility for Disability: Documenting the history of disability in America and the growth of the disability rights movement

  The Visibility for Disability project will provide a freely available, fully accessible digital foundation for exploring the history of disability and the evolution of the disability rights movement. Considering both the depth of coverage and national historical significance, Special Collections and University Archives at UMass Amherst (SCUA) will select 100 linear feet of content for digitization from sixteen collections. Together these span more than 150 years of American experience, providing valuable insight into the social, intellectual, political, and cultural context of disability in America and the ways in which a new form of cross-disability, rights-based activism grew within the broader civil rights struggle. Drawing on both the personal papers of activists and the records of organizations devoted to disability issues, this project will reveal the significant impact of disability activism on American politics and culture, while also providing rich resources for exploration of the experience of physical and psychiatric disability.

• Townships, Towboats and Turnpikes: The Shaping of Ohio through Land Surveys, Canals and Roads

  Over the course of 18 months, the Ohio History Connection will digitize three State Archives collections of early Ohio land records and maps: Federal Rectangular Survey of Plats in Ohio, Canal Plat Maps and Road Survey Records. The collections will be digitized in their entirety and described for online public access. Supplementary materials, such as video tutorials, research guides and presentations, will also be produced and made available on Ohio Memory (www.ohiomemory.org). Digitizing maps and documents related to the early surveying of the lands of Ohio will help tell the story of America's expansion across the Appalachians and into the Ohio region in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Researchers and students in a range of disciplines, from land surveying and cartography to genealogy and political and economic history, will benefit from having this wealth of material more easily accessible.

• The Promise of Gideon: Hurricane Katrina Prison Archive

  In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Southeast Louisiana. The largest hurricane to ever hit the United States, the effects of Hurricane Katrina were far reaching. One of the many things thrown into the chaos of Katrina was the incarcerated population of Southeast Louisiana. The Promise of Gideon project proposes to archive and share the experiences of this incarcerated population during and after the storm. Through personal interviews with prisoners, officers, and officials as well as attorney correspondence, Tulane University Law Professor Pamela Metzger collected these stories. We would like to make this truly unique collection freely and widely available to not only document what happened, but also to aid and inform preparations for future instances when natural disaster and incarceration meet.

• Digitization of the Helen Keller Archival Collection -- press clippings and scrapbooks

  The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) seeks funding over 18 months to digitize the Helen Keller Archival Collection's fragile press clippings and scrapbooks as part of a broader initiative partially funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize and disseminate Keller's entire archival collection. We also request funding for an assistant to create related metadata. The archive, containing over 80,000 items, includes correspondence, speeches, press clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, artifacts and architectural drawings. These materials span over 80 years, bridging the 19th and 20th centuries. Although the digitization project is about an extraordinary American figure, it is about much more; namely, the world in which Keller participated and the people and broader social developments she influenced and continues to influence today. Funding from CLIR will provide access to untapped material that can enrich our understanding of the social, political and cultural fabric of Keller's time and ours.