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• The Digital Archives of Science of Mind History: Toward A Comprehensive Online Library of the New Thought Movement

  Science of Mind Archives and Library Foundation proposes a two-year project that will digitize magazines, photographs, audio tapes, and other key institutional documents generating 75,000 of pages, images, and recordings that will be available to the public through a web-based digital asset management interface. The digital assets span over 100 years of Religious Science/Science of Mind history. The Institute of Religious Science and School of Philosophy was founded by Ernest Holmes in Los Angeles in 1927 after The Science of Mind textbook (1926) was published. In 1954 the Institute was reestablished as the Church of Religious Science which is now organized under the global umbrella of the Centers for Spiritual Living. As one of oldest and largest global church organizations within the American New Thought movement, this collection reveals linkages across New Thought philosophies and will finally make these resources available to scholars, institutions, and individuals for research.

• Early Asian American Print Culture

  The Asian American Writers' Workshop (AAWW) seeks funding for Early Asian American Print Culture (EAAPC), an initiative to catalog, digitize, and present the Asian American cultural production between the early 1990s and 2000s. AAWW's library and archive tell the hidden history of zine and spoken word culture and the rise of multiculturalism. EEAPC will preserve: 1) Asian American ephemera (photographs, leaflets, community fliers, posters); 2) early Asian zine culture, particularly Mimi Thi Nguyen's work; 3) AAWW's publications, many of them inaccessible or out of print (our member magazine, journal, and nine anthologies published with Temple University Press); 4) AV recordings dating back to 2000. We will offer efficient free access by publishing the archive in our online magazine and as course materials with Association of Asian American Studies. EAAPC will give scholars, students, and the public access to the culture of Asian American literature as it was being founded.

• Digitizing Public Radio Program Collection Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane

  WHYY seeks support to digitize and create free access to its 28-year collection of the award-winning public radio program Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane. Produced and owned totally by WHYY, this engaging and thought-provoking daily interview program examines regional, national, and international news, explores new ideas and trends, and introduces listeners to fascinating people including Pulitzer Prize-winning authors, playwrights, and poets; city, state and national legislators; government officials; actors; musicians; scientists; historians; and corporate leaders. Audio recordings from the program spanning 1988 to 2012 need to be digitized. This grant will support the digitization of the most at-risk audio recordings of the collection- 6,276 recoded hours on digital audio tape (DAT) files and 205 recorded hours on reels. The grant will also support basic metadata creation and the creation of a rich metadata application profile and template. WHYY will open access to the collection via WorldCat and Pennsylvania DPLA.

• Documents Pertaining to the Adjudication of Private Land Claims in California, ca. 1852-1892

  In 1851, the U.S. Congress passed "An Act to Ascertain and Settle Private Land Claims in the State of California" which required all holders of Spanish and Mexican land grants to present their title for confirmation before the Board of California Land Commissioners. This Act placed the burden of proof of title on landholders and initiated a lengthy process of litigation that resulted in most Mexican Californians, or Californios, losing their titles. While a majority of claims brought before the Board were confirmed, most decisions were appealed to U.S. District Court and some to the U.S. Appellate Court and the Supreme Court. Because land plays such a vital element in our understanding of the past, the Project intends to digitize the entire collection of 857 District Court cases and make it accessible on the Online Archive of California and DPLA.

• Digitization of the Diaries of Father Maximilian Gaertner, O.Praem

  Over three years staff from St. Norbert College will partner with the Center for Norbertine Studies and an independent translator to translate and digitize the diaries of Father Maximilian Gaertner, O.Praem. In order to enhance our understanding of mid-nineteenth century immigration, the formation of Catholic parishes in Wisconsin, the experiences of clergy in a developing landscape, and the history of both the area and of religious attitudes of the time. Father Gaertner arrived in Wisconsin in 1846, and remained until 1858. His diaries are a meticulous and invaluable record of both his travels and of his missionary work during these years. The diaries are an important primary source that is not available elsewhere. The anticipated audience for the diaries range from members of the general public with a casual interest in the period, to scholars researching the state's early history.

• Nick Virgilio Haiku Archive

  The Paul Robeson Library at Rutgers University-Camden proposes a twelve-month project to digitize the papers of Nicholas Virgilio (1928-1989), an internationally renowned haiku poet who spent most of his adult life in Camden, NJ. In 1999, ten years after Virgilio's death, his family asked Rutgers-Camden to hold his papers. In 2011, the papers were formally and legally deeded to the University, and in late 2014 they were moved to the Paul Robeson Library. The Virgilio papers are not a traditional literary or manuscript collection. Although they contain some correspondence and other material, the bulk of the collection is thousands of pages of haiku, typed on one or both sides of scrap paper, some on the back of ephemeral documents like grocery store flyers. This project will digitize Virgilio's poems, many of which remain unpublished, and other papers to make them available to scholars and enthusiasts around the world.

• Digital Archive of Huhugam Archaeology

  The Digital Archive of Huhugam Archaeology (DAHA) is a research collection that will include digital copies of a large fraction of the major unpublished archaeological reports relating to the Huhugam (also known as Hohokam) of the American Southwest. Huhugam culture is notable for its enormous irrigation systems, large, sustainable towns, and market-based exchange of specialist-produced crafts. DAHA will be curated and made accessible through tDAR, an established disciplinary repository operated by Arizona State University. We will digitize and OCR the reports, upload them into tDAR, and document them with extensive metadata enhanced by applying Natural Language Processing tools. The result will be a corpus of approximately 1,600 reports (400,000 pages) all online, discoverable, and freely accessible through tDAR. We believe that this grant will enable transformative research that will advance our understanding of Huhugam society and illustrate an innovative path for future synthetic research on other archaeological areas and topics.

• Digitizing and Cataloging the Museum of the City of New York's Pamphlet Collection

  The Museum respectfully requests support to provide online access to one of our largest bodies of research materials, the Pamphlet Collection, through cataloging and digitization. This collection contains nearly 1,800 multipage items. The materials cover a variety of topics primarily related to New York City, including city statistics, historical accounts of events and organizations, proposals for infrastructure projects (some never realized), and small pictorial publications portraying the lives of specific individuals and places. Many of the materials in this collection were independently produced by small organizations and not widely distributed or retained. The bulk of the pamphlets range in date from the late 19th through 20th centuries, a small portion was published in the early 1700s, and many are undated. Upon project completion, the digital images and associated descriptive metadata will be freely available and publicly searchable via the Museum's online Collections Portal at http://collections.mcny.org.

• Indiana Historical Land Survey Records

  The Indiana Historical Land Survey Records Project will last 36 months (or three years). The collaboration between the Indiana Geographic Information Council, Indiana Archives and Records Administration, and the Indiana Geological Survey will provide the tools to make the project a success. The Indiana Historical Land Survey Records consist of Original Field Survey Books/Plats, Federal, State and County Transcribed versions of the notes/plats and associated documents (1773-1925). These records form Indiana's Public Land Survey System. Records will be scanned, files named with a meaningful names, metadata created and then linked to a Township/Range layer on IndianaMap (a web map viewer). Significance for scholarship, once completed, is that files from different time periods related by geographic location will be easy to access providing greater research capabilities. Click on a map Township/Range layer and hyperlinks for all associated records will appear.

• Archiving the Chinese in California: Digitizing the ethnographic collections of the Chinese Historical Museum of America and San Diego Chinese Historical Museum

  The Chinese Historical Museum of America (CHSA) in San Francisco and the San Diego Chinese Historical Museum (SDCHM) will conduct a 36-month project to create an online repository of digitized text-based materials, objects, and photographs from the museums' holdings related to the history of Chinese immigrants in California. Together, the collections include approximately 30,000 ethnographic objects and artifacts spanning the last century and a half of Chinese in America. As the two museums are located in Northern and Southern California respectively, this project will make significant scholarly resources on the history of early Chinese immigration, Chinatowns, and ethnic revival in early Chinese American populations across the State widely available. Today, as the number of Chinese in the US has risen to nearly 4 million, with the greatest concentration in California, this joint collaboration will provide a public narrative of the journey of this rapidly growing and increasingly visible community.

• Healing the Wounds of Vietnam: First Person Documentation of the American and Vietnamese War Experience

  Media Burn Archive, nationally recognized leader in digital preservation of videotape, and Kartemquin Films, award-winning documentary powerhouse, are partnering to ensure the preservation of KTQ's archive. This project will digitize and create public access to the historic "Vietnam, Long Time Coming" collection of more than 200 hours of camera original documentary footage of American and Vietnamese soldiers reuniting on their former battlefields. Aside from the two hours used in the feature documentary, none of this footage has ever been viewed by the public. The project is of great urgency due to the short lifespan of videotape. The project will digitize the videos to uncompressed digital master files, create item-level catalog records, and make access files publicly available free of charge online. The project will create free, global access to a primary source for a rich and nuanced understanding of the lasting effects of war and the experience of combat.

• When the Mills Went Dark: Digitizing a Hidden Collection of Materials Relating to Ethnic Diversity, the Social History of Economic Decline, and the Postindustrial Transition in a New England Mill City, 1879-Present

  Scholars know well the history of the rise of the New England textile industry in the nineteenth century, and of its heyday around the turn of the century; less well known is the story of its decline and subsequent postindustrial transformation, a process that began in 1879 with the first installation of electric lights, became noticeable in the 1920s, turned into a collapse after 1955, and then featured a rebirth as small craft industry after 2000. The Windham Textile and History Museum has a collection of more than 30,000 items that relate to the decline and transformation of the textile industry in Willimantic, CT, including documents relating to ethnicity and conflict -- few of which have been digitized. This project will digitize this collection and make it available to scholars and local researchers alike through the Connecticut Digital Archives at the University of Connecticut.

• Digitization of the Records of the Construction and Furnishing of 1 East 70th Street, businessman and art collector Henry Clay Frick's New York City mansion, 1907-1920

  To digitize and make available through The Frick Collection's digital collections portal approximately fifteen linear of records related to the construction and furnishing of the 1 East 70th Street residence of businessman and art collector, Henry Clay Frick, c.1907-1931. The mansion is now home to The Frick Collection, a New York City landmark and renowned repository of painting and sculpture masterpieces and decorative arts and furniture. The records, housed in the archives of the Frick Collection, include contracts, correspondence, memoranda and financial records concerning Frick's acquisition of the property (site of the Lenox Library), negotiations with architects (Thomas Hastings of Carrere & Hastings), contracts with many building concerns and artisans as well as transactions with the interior designers Elsie de Wolfe and White & Allom.

• Writing and Talking: Creating Access to Conversations with 20th Century Writers in the collection of WNYC's "New York & Company"

  We propose to digitize 1,700 tapes (1/4" reel, audio cassette and F-1 Beta) of "New York & Company," now known as "The Leonard Lopate Show," WNYC's Peabody Award winning arts, culture, and public affairs radio program hosted by Leonard Lopate. The tapes, recorded between 1985 - 2001, feature conversations with many of the most notable and historically significant writers of the past 30 years: authors, playwrights and poets, journalists, critics, and historians, who have each made indelible marks on the arts and public humanities. Recordings of the program since 2002 have been digitized and are largely available to the public. By digitizing these earlier recordings, we aim to create a complete, publicly available resource of primary source material to be used by scholars, historians, artists, journalists, and the general public to discover new insights about familiar writers, spark curiosity, and create greater understanding of our written culture and our world.

• Photographs & Architectural Drawing Collections

  A project to digitize approximately 20,000 photographs and 300 architectural drawings related to life on our campus from 1950 - 2000. These images provide a pictorial look at life at and around Centenary during that era. The architectural drawings offer a structural history of the campus. These collections will be processed and arranged at the folder-level. Items will be digitized, cataloged with metadata, and re-housed with preservation as a priority. A digital repository will be created using ContentDM. The collections will also be linked and made accessible through the library's current archival access system, Past Perfect and its online component. Access copies and back-ups of images and metadata will be stored on campus. These collections will be made freely accessible to the public and enrich scholarly pursuits related to the local history of the region as well as to the history of women's higher education in the 20th century.

• Secrets Reveal'd: A Project to Digitize Early Modern Printed Books of Alchemy and "Chymistry"

  The University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries propose a 2-year project to digitize cover-to-cover rare printed works of alchemy and early chemistry (known as "chymistry") from our strong history of science holdings. Scholarship about Isaac Newton's reading in these subjects has guided selection of the 174 volumes (1521-1723) to be digitized; a few of the specific copies to be digitized are in fact known to be Newton's own copies. The Libraries will make available an online collection entitled "Secrets Reveal'd" accessible through our discovery platform and consisting of more than 72,000 pages relevant to scholars in fields as diverse as history of science, literary studies, and material, print, and visual culture studies. Files will also be shared with current scholarly projects elsewhere facilitating OCR specific to early modern printed texts and coding/tracking Newton's manuscript reading notes on alchemy/"chymistry."

• Accessing Augusta: Photographs of a Changing Culture, 1940s to 1980s

  Founded as the second city of colonial Georgia in 1736, Augusta and its immediate environs has witnessed cultural changes. The Wilkinson and Fitz-Symms Photo Negative Collections at the Augusta Museum of History illustrate the mid-20th century culture, economy, and federal facilities of a changing South. The Accessing Augusta project aims to digitize and make public these photography collections to increase public accessibility and awareness. We will publish this content on the museum's website, the Digital Public Library of America, South Carolina Digital Library, and the Digital Library of Georgia. Over a two-year period, the project staff will scan and upload approximately 48,000 negatives from the collections along with their accompanying metadata. These images will be linked to other AMH collections the offer further support of the subject matter. As this project progresses the Museum will engage with scholars, teachers, and social media to impact national research.

• Scottish Court of Session Digital Archive: Window into the British Atlantic, 1759-1834

  For this two-year project, the UVA Law Library will digitize 64 linear feet of legal records produced by the Scottish Court of Session, documents that reveal hidden histories of trade, migration, and life in the British empire in the years surrounding the American Revolution. Despite its seat in Edinburgh, Scotland, the legal disputes that came before the Court often spanned the Atlantic, and this digitization project reintegrates the spaces of the British empire--Great Britain, colonial America, the Caribbean, western Africa--as they would have been understood and experienced in the 18th- and 19th-centuries. Until now, a defendant/plaintiff name index and legal subject index have provided the only means of accessing these records, effectively hiding from scholars the richer context of people, trade, and politics contained within. Digital access to these documents will enable the creation of new knowledge about life and law in the early modern British Atlantic.

• Philadelphia's Historic Congregations - Political, Social and Cultural Developments in Philadelphia's early congregations

  Philadelphia, settled by William Penn in 1681 as a center for religious freedom, provided refuge for newcomers of many faiths. Records of these religious organizations provide a glimpse of who lived in the Philadelphia area prior to the days of official records keeping through baptisms, circumcisions, marriages, burials and pew rents. Minutes and correspondence reflect the tensions that existed as the city and new nation evolved. Philadelphia served as the epicenter for political thought and action from the 1770s into the early years of the 19th century as delegates to the Continental Congress, Constitutional Convention and ultimately members of the US government. That influence continued into the 19th century as new immigrants arrived and new churches formed. Currently access to these records is difficult as few congregations have archival programs. Creating a digital database of these records with scans readily available opens up these records to world-wide audiences.

• Portable Channel: Digitizing a Hidden Collection of Alternative Community Television

  During an 18 month project, Visual Studies Workshop (VSW) will transfer a significant portion of the Portable Channel (PC) collection from videotape to digital and create associated metadata. The material was sold to VSW after the organization closed in 1987. The collection consists of 910 tapes, of which 719 fall under the purview of this project. Once digitized, the videos and associated metadata will be shared online on SUNY Brockport's Digital Commons (DC) and on the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). The digitized video and metadata will also be accessible at VSW and will be distributed to selected academic libraries. The goal of this project is to provide access to currently inaccessible and decaying videotapes that chronicle an important video organization that produced some of the earliest community-made documentary television in the United States.

• Digitizing the Black Academy of Arts and Letters Records

  This two-year project will digitize, describe, and make manuscripts from the Black Academy of Arts and Letters, an African-American performing and visual arts organization based in Dallas, TX. Over the 24 month time span of the project, the University of North Texas will digitize approximately 146,000 pages and create approximately 43,000 metadata records. For forty-six years, the Black Academy has worked to honor and increase awareness of African-American artistic accomplishments and to foster young artists and scholars in the Dallas community. Providing digital access to the documents in this collection will enhance scholarship in the areas of African-American history and performing arts.

• Calculating Women: Counting Women's Impact in the Exact and Natural Sciences in a Collaborative Project to Digitize Archival Materials from Harvard University, the Maria Mitchell Association, Smith, Mount Holyoke, Wellesley, Vassar, and Bryn Mawr Colleges and Tuskegee University.

  Harvard University seeks $500,000 to digitize collections documenting two generations of pioneering women scientists from approximately 1840 to the 1970s. The project, estimated at more than 455,700 manuscript pages, will be completed over 3 years and will draw from the collections of the Harvard College Observatory, University Archives, Schlesinger, Countway, Ernst Mayr, and Botany Libraries, as well as from the Maria Mitchell Association, Smith, Mount Holyoke, Wellesley, Vassar, and Bryn Mawr Colleges and Tuskegee University. Working collaboratively through advanced imaging and an innovative delivery platform, the project will digitize 36 full collections, unlock data hidden in the papers, and unite cross-disciplinary collections representing women who created scientific breakthroughs and opportunities for women in science. Focusing on Astrophysics, Biology, Medicine, and the Natural Sciences, the project aims to leverage relationships between repositories and their content, historical context, and scientific data to foster new discoveries in the humanities and sciences.

• From the Mountain Top to the Desktop: Exposing the Cultures and Late 20th Century History of Nepal to a Global Audience

  We propose to digitize selected audiovisual collections on Nepal and to disseminate these to scholars and the public. These well-documented materials--representing a part of the world that has experience extensive sociocultural change due to varied economic factors (i.e., generational migration and tourism) and ecological change and natural disasters--offer important historical benchmarks between 'then' and 'now.' They include thirteen collections comprising nearly 200 hours of 16mm sound film with annotations, and translation tracks and nearly 30,000 associated still images. Despite their significant value to researchers, these analog materials remain underutilized due largely to challenges of access related to viewing on flatbed editing tables. Digitization and delivery online meets a major institutional goal of creating greater public access to collections. Using vendor and in-house facilities, we will provide a global audience with access to the detailed immediacy of these film records of Nepal in a descriptively rich and integrated way.

• Military Collection Veterans Oral History Collection

  The Military Collection Veterans Oral History Collection is composed of 1,085 oral history interviews with military service members with North Carolina connections from all U.S. military branches. The materials date from 1996 to 2014. The Military Collection's Veterans Oral History Program has recorded interviews with veterans of all military engagements from World War I to recent military conflicts. This two-year project will digitize all audio and video interview recordings in the collection; create a collection interface for the public on the North Carolina Digital Collections; provide discoverable online metadata for the interviews; have a selection of the interviews transcribed, and the rest have summaries created with biographies of the veterans; and make the interviews available through the North Carolina Digital Collections and the Internet Archive. The project will also help the Military Collection assess the condition of the original recording formats, and plan for their long-term preservation.

• Digitizing Western Botanists and Beyond: Completing the Online Archives and Botanical Specimens of John and Sara Plummer Lemmon, Civil War Veteran, Women's Rights Activist, and noted Pioneer Botanists

  The University and Jepson Herbaria propose a 1.5-year project to make freely available online the papers of the husband and wife botanical team and contemporaries of John Muir, John Gill Lemmon and Sara Plummer Lemmon. Their archives include correspondence, diaries, photographs, published and unpublished writing, and botanical specimens. Digitized archives material will be linked to existing finding aids in ArchivesSpace, and where available, existing transcriptions will be added to the metadata for each digital object to improve access. Digitized specimens will be made available via our existing specimen database, CollectionSpace, and links between the specimens and pertinent archives material will be created. Providing free access to this material online will benefit scholars in a variety of fields including botany, environmental science, history of science, American history, the Civil War, and women's history.