Hidden Collections Registry - Dev

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• Hiding in Plain Sight: Reviving the Work of Women Film Auteurs in the Digital Age

  USC's Comprehensive Annenberg Report on Diversity documents the under-representation of women directors in the Hollywood film industry, yet they are a strong presence among American independent filmmakers. Women film auteurs have been "hiding in plain sight" since the dawn of cinema, but scholarship & access lag behind, hindered by insufficient funds for collection, preservation & documentation. When Laboratory for Icon & Idiom, Inc. (LII)/IndieCollect took custody of 4000+ motion pictures at the DuArt laboratory, it discovered numerous films by women, identified with help from the Women's Film Preservation Fund, Women Make Movies, and Film-Makers' Cooperative. Under its digitization & access initiative, LII will create high-resolution scans of 147 films by women directors, including 70 from Film-Makers' Cooperative. After scanning, LII will return the Film-Makers' Coop titles to its vault, deposit the others at collaborating archives, and produce excellent records and information about the newly-accessible digital versions of these historic films.

• Changing the Face of Medicine: Women at the National Institutes of Health

  Building on its award-winning and high-profile exhibition on women in medicine, entitled Changing the Face of Medicine, the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine will digitize and make available online, through its established digital collections repository, NLM Digital Collections (https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/), the collections of five pioneering women who served as administrators and researchers at the National Institutes of Health: Bernadine Healy, Ruth Kirschstein, June Osborn, Margaret Pittman, and Sarah Stewart. These five collections, consisting of over 400,000 items, highlight the work of women as NIH leaders and researchers to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability. These collections include the collection of the first woman to head the NIH (Healy), the first woman to lead an NIH laboratory (Pittman), one of the early leaders in the fight against AIDS (Osborn), the acting associate director of the newly established Office of Research on Women's Health (Kirschstein).

• Scanning the Century

  We are scanning the Historical local Newspapers dating as far back as 1915. We have completed a segment up to the 50's and are looking to complete the 60's and up, over a period on the next two years. We have microfilm, as well as an online hosted page which is searchable.

• Ralph W. Hale, MD, Women's Health History Museum Digitization Project.

  The Ralph W. Hale, MD, Women's Health History Museum at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) will digitize images from its unique collection of approximately 650 artifacts representing the history of women's health care in America. The artifacts -- dating as far back as 200 BC but focusing primarily on women's reproductive health during the 18th- 21th centuries -- will be professionally photographed using a single-lens reflex (SLR) digital camera. The photo images (including multiple angles of all 3-D objects) will be formatted as TIFFs and uploaded to a digital repository using PastPerfect museum management software. All forms of metadata will be combined with corresponding photo images. Descriptive notes and collected "stories" will be added to select files, and a museum blog will highlight individual artifacts.The project will adhere to all all grant-specified intellectual property requirements and Creative Commons license agreements.

• The Harrison Forman Slide Collection: Creating Digital Access to a Hidden Collection of Mid- Century Color Photography from Around the World

  The American Geographical Society Library (AGSL) at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) seeks funding to digitize 49,000 35 mm Kodachrome and 2,000 2x2" Ektachrome slides of the Harrison Forman Collection which will take two years to complete. Work includes scanning individual slides, creation of metadata and uploading images to our digital collections site. It will be completed by the UWM Libraries Digital Collection and Initiatives Department staff. Harrison Forman was a prominent photojournalist who focused his camera on major world events from the late 1920s to the mid-1970s, creating a significant culturally focused photographic collection. Forman's images reflect his desire to capture aspects of the human experience and condition with a focus on his interest in underrepresented subjects of the non- western world. The depth and breadth of the cultural, geographic and historical subjects of Forman's work make it a valuable cross-disciplinary resource for researchers and educators.

• The California Audiovisual Preservation Project: Illuminating Hidden Histories of Migration and Settlement

  The proposed two-year project, Illuminating Hidden Histories of Migration and Settlement, will create a thematically-oriented collection of historically significant audiovisual recordings drawn from the holdings of 10 partner archives, libraries, and museums. The California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP) will digitize, preserve, and make available online 4,396 hidden audio, film and video recordings documenting the immigrant experience throughout California's modern history. From coastal California to the Eastern Sierras, the California Light and Sound (CLS) collection will map California's living history through sound and moving image to support the work of scholars and educators across a broad array of disciplines, including social science, political science, cultural studies, sociocultural anthropology, urban and environmental studies, and media studies.

• American Craft Council College of Fellows Artist Files Digitization Project

  This project is created in response to feedback from scholars, curators, practitioners, and students working in the communities of art, design, material culture, and craft requesting more freely available and complete online content documenting contemporary artists working in the fields of clay, fiber, glass, metal, paper, and wood. The project encompasses the digitization of 15,000 rare images and 12,000 unique documents detailing the work of the ACC's College of Fellows, a group of 249 influential 20th-century artists. Materials will be collected to be scanned off-site by Backstage Library Works, then returned to the ACC where the originals will be rehoused and metadata added to the scanned materials. Materials will be uploaded to the library's existing open access online database, as well as to ARTstor, the nonprofit education image collection. Widespread marketing of digitized content using social media and integrative technologies will draw attention to the availability of freely accessible materials.

• Post 9/11 Literary Cultural Exchange and Engagement: PEN World Voices Online Multimedia Collection

  PEN America proposes a 24-month project to digitize the PEN World Voices audiovisual collection. Founded by Salman Rushdie in response to increasing US isolationism after September 11, 2001, the collection consists of 523 events, 257 recorded on MiniDVs and 266 born-digital. The collection includes Nobel Prize winners; social reformers; literary luminaries; and artistic revolutionaries, whose work frames the most pressing social, cultural, and political issues of our time. PEN America will: digitize 257 events captured on MiniDV; catalog 523 events using PBcore Metadata; incorporate the entire collection into PEN's broader NEH-funded archival project to make 5 decades of currently inaccessible material available at PEN.org, as well as through Princeton University's Online Finding Aid; and preserve digitized files in "dark" storage and Raid 5 Drives. This project will provide access to a unique collection of source materials that will benefit scholars, students, journalists, and support freedom of expression the world over.

• Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum: Early and Mid-Twentieth Century Sheet Music Collection

  The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum respectfully requests support from the Council on Library and Information Resources to digitize the approximately 6,500 items included in its Early and Mid-Twentieth Century Sheet Music Collection. These documents, which range from roughly 1900 to 1960, span the full range of musical genres in the early twentieth century, from Broadway and vaudeville songs to the gospel and folk songs that formed the basis for country music. As one of the chief media for disseminating and promoting popular music, sheet music provides one of the most important sources for studying the development and promotion of American music in the first half of the twentieth century. This project will conserve and create access to a significant collection with a wide specialist and generalist audience, making these source materials available within the context of the Museum's archives for the first time.

• Innovative Digital Access to Architectural Models

  The goal of this collaboration between the Getty Research Institute and the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at the University of California, Santa Barbara is to digitize and provide free integrated online access to 300 architectural models, many of which are inaccessible due to their large size and fragility. Using innovative 360ï‚° hemispherical photography, the project will produce hundreds of images of each model, and assemble them into seamless digital renderings. To maximize the research potential of the renderings, we will develop a new web-based viewer that allows researchers to rotate and magnify them for close study. Digitization of models will have a transformative effect on research in architectural history and promote interdisciplinary scholarship. The project partners will widely disseminate images and methodology, and make the viewer freely available as open-source code. Best practices for digitization will be extended to open new opportunities for collaboration among institutions with architectural models.

• Preserving An American Treasure: The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association's Early Records & Archives from 1852 to 1951

  The MVLA has been a pathfinder for the American historic preservation movement. This two-year project will digitize, organize, describe, and make publicly accessible about 7,000 items, much of which focuses on the MVLA's earliest period from 1852-1891. Primary source material includes manuscripts, letters, newspaper clippings, and images related to the rich history of the Association. The archival collection will be fully processed to include the most modern of searchable finding aids, which will make this fascinating story widely available to benefit scholars, teachers, students, and life-long learners. This project combines a very human story with an unsung institutional history. Founded and governed by women, the MVLA forged a new industry for protecting America's cultural and historical heritage, while fulfilling their mission to preserve the legacy of George Washington's leadership and character along with his beloved, iconic home. Their patriotic leadership and resolve, individually and collectively, represents an important American achievement.

• Hamlets, Houses, and Highways: Digitizing the Built Environment

  Over the course of two years, UK Libraries will digitize the Kentucky Heritage Council (KHC) Kentucky Historic Resource Inventory. Started in 1966, the KHC has conducted an ongoing survey of historic sites in all 120 Kentucky counties. The inventory serves as a permanent written and photographic record of all known historic buildings, structures, and sites in the commonwealth. In partnership with the KHC, UK Libraries will make 100,000 surveys and associated metadata available in an online database. Kentucky's historic places dot the landscape from Appalachia in the east to the Purchase region in the west, encompassing river towns and railroad towns, historic neighborhoods, courthouse squares, African-American hamlets, Native American villages, coal mining camps and roadside architecture -- urban and rural landscapes that define our sense of place and tell the story of who we are as Americans. Online access to the surveys will increase research opportunities across numerous disciplines.

• Documenting Service with Fighting Men: Creating Online Access to World War I-Related Materials of the Kautz Family YMCA Archives

  The Kautz Family YMCA Archives proposes a two-year project to digitize and make available online materials documenting the YMCA's role in providing critical support to the armed services during World War I (WWI). The project comprises records from the YMCA's Armed Services Department including interviews, photograph albums, scrapbooks, newspapers, and artifacts. The material will be freely accessible to the public via the UMN's digital repository and enhanced metadata from existing collection descriptions, as well as via DPLA. An invaluable resource for interdisciplinary scholarship, the material will be brought together with related online collections through the metadata, as well as a web-based exhibit and curriculum materials. In light of the imminent centenary of American involvement in the war, the project will attract significant interest at national and international levels by both academic scholars and the general public.

• A 3D Archive of California Ethnography at Stanford University

  The Stanford University Libraries (SUL) proposes to create a 3D archive of 116 items comprising the Stanford University Archaeology Collections' (SUAC) California ethnography collection. These artifacts illuminate the daily life of indigenous peoples in California from the late 18th through 20th centuries, as well as Stanford's role in the transformation of California through its regional collecting history. This collection is currently discovered through word-of-mouth and viewed only on-site. 3D models will provide dispersed scholars, students, and tribal members an authentic object experience. Models may serve future uses, such as 3D printing to allow physical examination of otherwise inaccessible artifacts. Rather than consulting only after digitization, the proposed workflow will integrate consultation to produce metadata with enhanced cultural context and to ensure we handle, describe, and publicly disseminate objects appropriately. The project will contribute to best practices for the creation and management of 3D data in the cultural heritage sector.

• The Hazelden Pittman Archives

  The digitization of the Hazelden Pittman Archives would allow for the continued preservation of this historic collection of alcoholism literature and artifacts located at Hazelden's main campus in Center City, MN, USA. The collection is focused on the topic of alcoholism, along with the related topics of drug addiction, prohibition, temperance, Alcoholics Anonymous, treatment, counseling, and gambling. Currently the archives are available by appointment and digitizing the collection would open up a tremendous amount of history to thousands if not millions of individuals working to impact and study in the field of addiction prevention, treatment, and recovery.

• The nest, the cloud, and the crowd: Digitizing North America's historic bird nest records

  From 1963 to 1999, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology harnessed the power of birdwatchers to share information on the breeding biology of birds. The North American Nest Record Card Program became America's largest repository of information on nesting birds, with > 334,000 nesting records of nearly 600 species submitted on 4"x6" index cards. Today, birds continue to serve as sentinels of environmental change. Our project aims to digitize these historic nest record cards, guarantee their future accessibility, and unite this hidden trove of biological data with contemporary, online datasets. In mobilizing the data for research and conservation, we will go beyond digitization by launching an interactive online platform for the transcription of data into a format which can be readily used by scholars. Images of the cards will be freely available via a searchable web archive for posterity, and transcribed data will be made available for download by researchers.

• Digitizing the Hidden History of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics

  The Modern Language Association (MLA), a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization headquartered in New York City, seeks Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) grant support for the project Digitizing the Hidden History of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics. The project will result in three major deliverables: (1) the digitization of roughly 176 individual artifacts comprised of about 933 pages, prints, and views, (2) the creation of a richly described database and finding aid, and (3) the production of an open-access digital exhibition on the history of the research and teaching of modern languages, literatures, and linguistics. The artifacts nominated for digitization span the years 1883-1933 and will be drawn from the following collections in the MLA Archive: MLA Images Collection, MLA Papers Collection, MLA Scrapbook Collection, Newspaper and Newsletter Collection, MLA Library Collection, and MLA Objects Collection.

• Digitization of the Caribbean Archaeological Archives of the Yale Peabody Museum

  The Peabody Museum of Natural History's Anthropology Division curates one of the world's largest systematically acquired Caribbean archaeology collections. Here we propose to digitize the primary field documents from this archaeology program, link the resulting digital assets to records in our collections management system as well as to the library finding aids that have been developed with prior support, and make these available online. Although these collections are unique, are cataloged, and their metadata and selected associated digital assets available online, the documentation is only accessible in the Division archives, which currently limits access to these critical resources to just those scholars who are able to visit the archives. The documentation includes field notes, maps and drawings, laboratory notes, and photographic material. These resources have research potential of worldwide interest to scholars in archaeology, anthropology, history of science, biogeography, and zoology.

• From Her Pen to the Printed Page: Digital Preservation and Access to the Manuscripts of Elizabeth Barrett Browning at the Armstrong Browning Library

  Baylor University proposes a two-year project in order to digitally preserve and provide open access to more than 300 original manuscripts written by Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861), commonly known as EBB. The proposed digital collection will provide unprecedented access to documents previously available to scholars only on an in-person basis at the Armstrong Browning Library (ABL), a special collection on the campus of Baylor University. Included in the manuscripts are early drafts and fair copies of EBB's poetical works, verse and prose notebooks, verse and prose translations of classical authors, memoranda, marginalia, and proofs of her works that often incorporate handwritten notes, evidence of her input into the editing process. The resulting digital collection will feature high-resolution images, full-text searchable transcriptions, complete metadata, and worldwide access via the Baylor University Libraries Digital Collections website (http://digitalcollections.baylor.edu).

• Colonial Williamsburg Architectural Research Slide Collection, Phase 1 Digitization

  The Architectural Research Department of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation will digitize 50,000 slides and 200 4"x5" transparencies of buildings, sites, and objects taken by its members over a 45 year period between 1959 and 2004. Descriptive metadata for each image will be provided. The core of the collection features buildings located in the Chesapeake region dating from the seventeenth through the mid-nineteenth century. The images include decorative details and structural features, as well as more general views of dwellings, slave quarters, agricultural structures, churches, commercial and public buildings. In Phase I, the collection's American buildings will be digitized. The scope is broad ranging from New England southward. These images will be placed online at SAHARA, the digital image archive developed by the Society of Architectural Historians in collaboration with Artstor.

• Digitizing Storefront's Archive for Web-based Public Access

  Storefront for Art and Architecture is requesting funding over 18 months to digitize and disseminate core records from its archive, a unique, nationally significant collection of design material documenting over three decades of the organization's activities. This project will address the archive's urgent need to provide web-based public access to the most important components of its collections. By working with the Internet Archive (IA) and Google Cultural Institute (GCI), Storefront intends to maximize the project's cost effectiveness, efficiency and impact. More specifically, Storefront is requesting CLIR support to 1) catalog and digitize 28 c.f. of the archive's material; 2) upload all digitized content to the IA for permanent hosting and management; 3) convert Storefront's existing finding aids to searchable HTML formats linked to IA-hosted records; 4) update exhibition pages on the archive section of Storefront's website; and 5) publish select digital records on GCI.

• The Segregated Japanese American Military Units of World War II: Digitizing and Providing Access to Veteran Oral Histories

  Go For Broke National Education Center proposes a 12-month project to digitize and index 700 videotaped oral history interviews of Japanese American veterans who served in segregated units during World War II. The recordings were collected throughout the US beginning in 1998 on Betacam, DVCAM and miniDVCAM magnetic tape, and are part of the most extensive oral history collection about the segregated infantry and military intelligence units that served in the European and Pacific Theaters, respectively, in WWII. Some of the interviews were previously digitized to compressed, non-archival standards. This archival-quality digitization will be completed at the University of Southern California Digital Repository. A previous CLIR grant supported item-level cataloging of the oral histories; this grant further defines the contents of the recordings by indexing the oral histories so researchers can efficiently search through the almost 1,800 hours of veteran recollections.

• Digitizing Marshall, The Man and the Plan: Presenting A Comprehensive Visual Record of George C. Marshall and the Marshall Plan through Films and Photographs.

  The George C. Marshall Foundation houses the most comprehensive collection of records relating to George C. Marshall, the man President Harry Truman called "the greatest living American," in the world. A photograph collection of 9,092 images as well as a collection of 276 films provide a visual record of Marshall's achievements and experiences throughout his life. A collection of 186 English-language films depicting the Marshall Plan, Marshall's most well-known accomplishment, also resides at the foundation. During its 24-month project the Marshall Foundation will digitize and catalog these photograph and film collections as well as make them freely available online through the foundation's website. The availability of these collections in digital form will promote a deeper understanding of Marshall and the Marshall Plan among current scholars and generate greater interest in Marshall's life and work among the scholarly community.

• Archives and Artifacts: Uniting Liberian Scholarly Collections from Indiana University Libraries and Mathers Museum of World Cultures

  A woodcarver shares his experience of mask-carving; scholars photograph masking ceremonies; an author weaves allusions to masks into his work: Archives and Artifacts will bring together a full range of materials to allow scholars to create new knowledge about Liberian expressive culture, including writings (field notes, correspondence, manuscripts, Liberian government and IGO reports), photographs, and three-dimensional objects (sculpture, textiles, baskets, etc.). Archives and Artifacts is a two-year endeavor by two units on Indiana University's Bloomington campus: Indiana University's Libraries' Liberian Collections, part of the African Studies Collection (IULC), and the Mathers Museum of World Cultures (MMWC). The IULC team will process and digitize paper and photographic materials. This includes attention to the physical resource--assessing and digitizing--and to information about the resource--recording associated metadata, creating or modifying finding aids. Object digitization by the MMWC team follows the same pattern--care for the object and for the associated information.

• Philadelphia Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide Digitization Project

  This project will digitize the only known original copy of the Philadelphia Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide, a trade journal (1886-1940) that provided detailed reporting of building activity in Philadelphia and other east-coast cities from Washington to New York. The Athenaeum has a complete run of the journal: 50,000 pages in 2800 issues and 55 volumes. The Builders' Guide has references to hundreds of thousands of buildings but has no index. The proposed project will make this remarkable resource easily available to scholars by developing a free Builders' Guide website, providing access to the images of all of the issues; full-text of the pages; full-text search; and a direct interface with the Athenaeum's Philadelphia Architects and Buildings website. In addition all Builders' Guide scanned images and metadata describing the issues will be made publicly available on the Internet Archive website.