Hidden Collections Registry - Dev

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• John Michael Kohler Arts Center: Digitized Art Environment Collections and Study Materials

  John Michael Kohler Arts Center (Arts Center) will undertake a two-phase digitization project to enable online access to its entire collection of art environments (11,281 works by 34 artists) and two extensive study collections for artists Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (EVB) and Mary Nohl (MN). Museums, academics, and collectors worldwide have demonstrated interest in researching artists and their art environments; however, to date resources have been lacking to make the works and archives readily accessible for study. Space constraints and a full rotating exhibition schedule result in many works remaining in storage for long periods; study materials have yet to be digitized or fully catalogued. In response to mounting interest in art environments, their artists, and the two selected artist study collections in particular, this project will remove accessibility obstacles and set the stage for new art historical, material culture, and historical scholarship.

• Digitizing Social Justice: Advancing Knowledge of the American 20th Century Catholic Social Action Movement

  This collaborative project includes The Catholic University of America, Marquette University, and the Catholic Research Resources Alliance. Over a period of three years (2017-2019) project partners will collectively digitize and make publicly available materials documenting Catholic social justice and action in the 20th century. The collections refer to each other, across holdings and across institutions. This project seeks to bridge the dispersed nature of these archival collections, enhancing research world-wide and creating critical connections for research in social justice. Materials selected will be digitized from holdings of significant activists and thinkers of the period, including Dorothy Day, John Ryan, the Catholic Interracial Council, and more. Source materials include diverse formats: correspondence, notebooks, diaries, manuscripts, press accounts, newsletters, newspapers, drawings, and photographs.

• Thomas L. and Elizabeth Wood Kane family papers

  The primary focus of this project will be to digitize all the papers in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections at Brigham Young University related to Thomas and Elizabeth Kane and their family. These collections include several volumes of diaries, hundreds of letters, thousands of photographs, and other ephemera related to the life of this unique American family. These papers are unique in that they cover a variety of topics relevant to any student of 19th century America history, including early 19th Century US government; Arctic explorations by Elisha Kent Kane; Mormonism, Brigham Young, and the settlement of Utah; Civil War; early women photographers; women's progressive movements; 19th Century medical practice; and, the settlement of northwestern Pennsylvania. Some of these have been digitized, but this project will focus on updating metadata and digitizing the remaining items so that they can all be available for researchers online.

• MPR Dayreels: The First Decade

  Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) is the most extensive regional public radio network in the country. Since its inception in 1967 MPR has created and broadcast original news programming, including a collection of upper Midwest reporting that spans many topics and locations--from the state capitol to Cambodia, from cultural figures to cultural changes. The first 30 years of these news stories (around 78,000 in number) were recorded on quarter-inch magnetic reel-to-reel audiotape, with each day's stories spliced onto a single reel--a "dayreel." This project proposes the digitization, enhanced description, and publication of the first decade of MPR dayreels: 23,172 audio recordings from 1972-1982. Currently there is no public record that these stories even exist; poor story-level metadata has prohibited metadata publication, and analog playback is the only way to know a story's true contents. This project would reveal these stories for the first time since they were broadcast.

• Revealing a Hidden Collection: Digitizing, cataloging, and making discoverable essential collection artifacts

  The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum respectfully requests a $250,000 grant to support a project to catalog, digitally photograph, and make discoverable online approximately 6,000 "Hidden Collections" artifacts exhibited by Isabella Stewart Gardner in fifteen glass-topped cases placed throughout the museum. These artifacts have not been adequately catalogued or digitally documented and, due to the nature of their installation and preservation requirements, are inaccessible to museum visitors. Gardner arranged the artifacts in the cases thematically and in direct relationship to the installations of fine and decorative art within the galleries. Making the Hidden Collections accessible allows the Gardner to illuminate and understand her curatorial intentions for these materials for the first time in its history while also supporting the museum's long-range digital strategy, which prioritizes digitization and access initiatives for the fine art and archival collections, the creation of a new website, and development of digital tools for visitors and scholars.

• Expanding the Technicolor Online Research Archive

  George Eastman House d/b/a George Eastman Museum, in collaboration with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences' Margaret Herrick Library and the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, will expand its Technicolor Online Research Archive (TORA), begun in 2015 with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (40,000 objects digitized). This project supports digitization and online access of an additional 260,379 Technicolor documents from the collections of the three institutions, dating from 1913 to 2000. This free, web-based resource will be available to researchers, academics, and historians to study, understand, and appreciate the tremendous influence that Technicolor had on filmmaking and popular culture during the 20th century.

• Digitization of an Important Family of Crop Plants (Fabaceae) in the United States National Herbarium

  Digitization of biological specimens is gaining momentum in museums, universities, and botanical gardens worldwide. The sum of these specimen records represents a rich temporal and spatial perspective of biodiversity on our planet. It informs our understanding of past processes and provides guidance answering current and future questions of societal importance. The Smithsonian Institution is engaged in an ongoing effort to digitize our biological holdings in a strategic manner. We intend for the product of our work to be immediately useful in addressing both the past and future. This proposal aims to digitize our collection of Fabaceae, a plant family of great importance to crop production and other economic and cultural concerns. Using newly developed rapid capture digitization, technology, we will create digital records of 162,000 plant specimens at an unprecedented rate. All digital content will be made publicly available to scholars, content aggregators, and the general public.

• Boston Lives Matter: Freedom House and Black Activism, 1949-2004

  The Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections (UASC) requests funding to digitize, catalog, and make nationally available over a period of two years the records of Boston-based social justice organization Freedom House. Once digitized, Freedom House records (1949-2004) will be individually identified and cataloged by graduate students overseen by a professional archivist. They will then be preserved in the Northeastern's Digital Repository Service, a publicly available Fedora-based repository, and harvested into DPLA and the Umbra African American Digital Collection. A selection of correspondence and newsletters identified as high research value will be transcribed with basic structural markup and metadata using Text Encoding Initiative guidelines. The collection includes bylaws, meeting minutes, flyers, annual reports, correspondence, memoranda, newspaper clippings, and newsletters. This freely available digital collection will provide an invaluable resource for studying how the African American community in Boston fought for civil rights and social justice.

• Facilitating Access to CAS/PNNM's Motion Picture Film Collection for Ecological Research

  The Chicago Academy of Sciences / Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum's (CAS/PNNM) motion picture films document biodiversity from 1925 to 1988, providing a unique mechanism to study ecological change over time. Almost all of the films are original recordings taken during Academy field expeditions across the United States, featuring Midwestern environments and other ecologically important areas such as the Great Smoky Mountains, the American Southwest, Louisiana, and Florida. CAS/PNNM's film collection also documents sensitive ecosystems around the world, created by Academy staff and local naturalists while studying abroad. Because motion picture film becomes increasingly more fragile over time, digitization of these films is necessary to ensure that access to the information recorded is safely preserved and accessible for scholarly review. CAS/PNNM will contract the Chicago Film Archives to digitize 1,323 films from its collections over a two year period and make the resulting digital media available through Internet Archive and Arctos.

• Accessing Minor White: Connecting Collections from Princeton to Portland

  Princeton University Art Museum proposes "Accessing Minor White: Connecting Resources from Princeton to Portland" in partnership with the Oregon Historical Society and the Portland Art Museum to provide open access to the rich archival and photographic materials that detail the life's work of this esteemed photographer, author, curator, and educator. The three-year project will result in the digitizing and cataloging of over 500 artist's negatives and 50 boxes of mixed archival materials; cataloging of over 19,000 artist's negatives and 7,000 finished prints; published CIDOC-crm records; and creation of an online portal featuring the Mirador image viewer to provide broad public access for research. The Accessing Minor White Research Portal will integrate the three physical repositories of the artist's earliest photographic efforts as creative photographer for Oregon's Federal Art Project, and will enable future contributions from other institutions, providing access to the full breadth and chronology of Minor White's career.

• The Voices of Photography: Lectures and Interviews from the Center for Creative Photography

  The Center for Creative Photography (CCP) at the University of Arizona proposes a two-year project to digitize 875 videotapes recorded during CCP's forty-year history. The recordings of interviews, lectures, symposia, workshops, and gallery walk-throughs offer insight into the creative process of photographers such as Ansel Adams and Garry Winogrand and perspectives of curators like John Szarkowski and Peter Bunnell. The videos cover photography movements such as pictorialism, modernism, portraiture, and photojournalism. They document the rise of galleries devoted to photography and the formation of photography institutions such as Friends of Photography. They illustrate the importance of photographers as teachers such as Linda Connor and Robert Heinecken. All analog videotapes will be digitized, catalogued, and made searchable on CCP's website, via WorldCat, and YouTube. Scholars, students, and the general public will gain insight into the creative processes behind culturally significant figures in the field of 20th century photography.

• Don't Take it to the Grave: Digitizing the 19th-Century Burial Files of New York City's Green-Wood Cemetery

  Green-Wood Historic Fund (GWHF) respectfully requests a grant to digitize Green-Wood Cemetery's Burial Files, dated 1840 to 1920. These records will be scanned, corresponding metadata will be created, and then uploaded into an open-source application for standards-based archival description and access. The project emphasizes accessibility and discoverability for these approximately 255,000 items. These records pertain to approximately 300,000 "permanent residents" of Green-Wood Cemetery who were buried between its founding in 1838 and 1920 (the first half of the institution's existence.) Each record set varies, but almost all contain an individual's Burial Permit, lot ownership record, nativity, age at death, cause of death and date of burial. Many also contain correspondence with the cemetery, letters from monument makers, requests to permit a new burial, photographs and more. These records present information that, with very few exceptions, has never before been made public; the potential contribution to researchers worldwide is tremendous.

• Robert H. Ruby Papers

  EWU Libraries propose to digitize the hidden Dr. Robert H. Ruby collection, a body of work detailing observations of Pacific Northwest Native Americans (1953-2010). This collection has special significance for several reasons. Dr. Ruby conducted studies and observations during a time and in a region that was largely untouched by other researchers. Secondly, Ruby recorded oral histories and elements of a rapidly changing indigenous culture. Subjects of his studies were often fading elders with life experiences on ancestral lands and oral traditions reflecting life prior to reservation settlement. Ruby's unique observations fill gaps in the historical record for the Plateau people, a largely underrepresented population when compared to other indigenous peoples. This unique collection will be invaluable, particularly if made digitally accessible to researchers. While the geographic scope focuses primarily on the Northwest, the essence of the material provides an exclusive, historical perspective of American Indian history with widespread relevance.

• Building A Nation: Preserving and Providing Access to the Indiana Limestone Photograph Collection

  Funding for Building a Nation: The Indiana Limestone Photograph Collection (ILPC) will support the processing, digitization, description, and online access to over 11,000 historic photographs that document the use of Indiana limestone's particular impact on the architectural and urban history of the United States. The collection of approximately 25,000 black and white architectural photographs was discovered in a dilapidated house owned by the Indiana Limestone Company. Dating from the late 1800s to the 1940s, the photos depict residences, churches, universities, museums, businesses, and public buildings, many of which were designed by prominent architects. Remarkably holistic in scope, this collection can be studied across major humanities disciplines such as American history, architectural history, history of technology, urban studies, history of photography, historic preservation, labor history, and the history of geology. The Indiana Geological Survey proposes a two-year project to make publicly available the ILPC through Indiana University Libraries' Image Collections Online.

• Digitizing Boston's Archaeological Heritage in the Cradle of Freedom

  Boston's City Archaeology Program requests $164,349 to digitize the archaeological assemblages excavated from the properties of the African Meeting House, Boston Common, Faneuil Hall, and Paul Revere House. Results of this project will included a complete digital catalog of 267 standard records boxes containing approximately 185,000 excavated artifacts, over 2,000 pages of archaeological reports and original excavation notes, and will produce over 10,000 digital artifact photos and associated metadata. All digital content and associated metadata will populate a web-based digital archive on Boston's City Archaeology Program website. This effort will create the first complete catalog of these collections and allow full access to this otherwise inaccessible, unique, and comprehensive archive to researchers and the general public.

• Shaker Manuscripts: A Collaborative Digital Library

  The project will comprehensively digitize more then 3,060 Shaker manuscripts from eight collections. Participants include Hamilton College, Winterthur Library, Hancock Shaker Village, Fruitlands Museum, Shaker Museum at South Union, Enfield Shaker Museum, Pleasant Hill Shaker Village, and the Berkshire Athenaeum. 139,225 pages of content will be scanned. Archival quality TIFF images will be created, and also publicly accessible JPEG2000 and PDF files for each item. The collection will be hosted by Hamilton College, whose staff will oversee metadata creation, website development, and management of digital files. The completed digital library will provide scholarly access to a broad variety of Shaker manuscripts, including journals, theological and historical writings, account books, real estate records, financial records, membership records, hymn books with musical notation, and correspondence.

• Interpreting Detroit's Turbulent Past: The Jerome P. Cavanagh Digitization Project

  The Jerome P. Cavanagh Digitization Project will digitize and disseminate 335.75 linear feet of predominantly manuscript and photographic materials, and 36 audio recordings, representing the bulk of the collection held at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University. The Reuther Library, with the University Library's Digital Publishing Team, will conduct the project in three phases during 2017-2019: (1) project material digitization (2) substantial metadata creation (3) online collection release and promotion. With a publicly accessible finding aid, the papers have experienced heavy use, despite limitations of physicality. With the upcoming fiftieth anniversary of Detroit's 1967 Civil Unrest, increased interest in the myriad issues leading to the decline of the nation's then-sixth-largest city is expected. Expanding access to papers documenting the spectacular rise and fall of a quintessentially American city enlarges the story of a fundamentally transformed American social, cultural, and economic landscape from the midcentury to the present.

• Uncovering Arizona and National Public Policy and Culture

  Conservative political philosophy and vocal advocacy in late 20th century Arizona precipitated nationally controversial legislation that paralleled or presaged debates and similar actions in other states. The period from 1985 to 1996 will be remembered as a transformative time in development of local and national public policies and programs for water resources management, border control and immigration, public and charter schools, tribal governance, cultural diversity, the arts, environmental protection, health care, civil rights, and voting rights. These issues precipitate actions and debates across America to this day. We will exemplify CLIR's core values and collaborative spirit, spark creative digital humanities research and community discussion, and reveal changes in Arizona and America over time. New production workflows will enable global open access to our previously hidden video archive of the award winning Arizona PBS (hereafter AZPBS) Arizona Horizon television programs.

• Viewing Visalli: The Santi Visalli Photographic Collection

  Santi Visalli is a prolific photojournalist who has covered news, social issues, politics, and lifestyles and has photographed four presidents of the United States. His work as appeared in and on the covers of some 50 magazines and newspapers worldwide, including The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, Life, U.S. News & World Report, Paris Match, Stern, Oggi, Epoca, and L'Europeo. In 2015, Mr. Visalli donated his photograph and negative collection to CSU Channel Islands, and transferred copyright to the university. With this grant, we intend to digitize the entire 100,000 plus image collection and post them on-line for researchers world-wide.

• Recorded Interviews with Postmodern and Contemporary American Writers from the Larry McCaffery Papers

  San Diego State University proposes to digitize 180 interviews on audio cassette tapes with well-known postmodern and contemporary American writers by Larry McCaffery, professor emeritus of English at San Diego State University and postmodern literary critic. Interviewees include innovative writers like Raymond Federman, Mark Danielewski, David Foster Wallace, Samuel Delany, Joanna Russ, Ursula LeGuin, and more. These tapes provide insight into writing processes and influences as well as McCaffery's unique interview process. The Larry McCaffery Papers are currently being processed with the tapes arranged within their own series. This project will allow for the digitization and transcription of these interviews, which will be made freely available to the public via SDSU's digital platform (ibase.sdsu.edu), the collection finding aid, and an online exhibit. This resource will enhance research in postmodern literature, the literary interview, cyberpunk, contemporary American literature, science fiction, and American cultural studies.

• From the Gifts of Missionaries to Collections Anchored in the Diversity of Life, Experience and Global History: Creating Virtual Global Access to the Documents, Artifacts and Specimens Housed in the University Archives and the Cultural & Natural History Collections at University of La Verne

  It started with a gift from Brethren missionaries, prominent scientists, cultural explorers and our students over a century ago. University of La Verne's archival, cultural and natural history collections represent the eclecticism of a miniature Wellcome Collection, bridging local and global history from the view of the individual, where each item carries its own story. La Verne will share these stories through an easily discoverable digitized archive, downloadable from anywhere in the world and at any time, and drawing from the full complement of specimens, artifacts, objects, and ephemera housed in the Cultural & Natural History Collections, complemented by historical photographs and a newspaper serial in the University Archives. These images coupled with deep descriptions and metadata will be available for use by scholars, artists and the general public, adding a new understanding of our cultural and natural heritage--from Pleistocene fossils and South American textiles to historical inland southern California.

• Macaroni Pudding and a Good Cake: Digitizing and Transcribing the Manuscript Cookbook Collection 1650-1896

  Kansas State University Libraries' Macaroni Pudding and a Good Cake is a two-year project that will enhance international scholarship pertaining to the history of food and medicine, women's culture, comparative literature and epidemiology. Nearly 8,000 pages of manuscript cookery books dating from 1650-1896 will be available in an institutional repository as well as a crowdsourced transcription interface. K-State Libraries plan to maximize project impact by engaging with targeted constituencies: K-State academic programs, professional organizations, scholarly communities and social media contacts. Outreach initiatives will be institutional, regional, national and international. Digitization will be used to promote the Libraries' Adopt-a-Manuscript conservation program, which will allow sponsors to fund stabilization treatments for the collection's most endangered materials.

• Archives of the Network of Religious Communities

  The Network of Religious Communities (NRC) is a multi faith organization of denominations and religious organizations located in and serving Western New York with roots back to 1857. The collection itself is a compilation of the various religious and social justice projects of the Network and collaborating organizations during the past 150 years. We believe this considerable historical collection is irreplaceable as well as in fragile condition and should be shared as widely as possible as per the Hidden Collection values. Although this is a regional collection, we feel it has value to researchers across the country who are engaged in social justice and ecumenical and inter religious projects. The NY Heritage website will host our collection after it has been digitized by the BIELS firm.

• Do No Harm: Digitizing the History of Lead Toxicity and Exposure through the Drs. Robert A. Kehoe and Wilhelm Hueper Papers

  This 36-month project, hosted at the University of Cincinnati Libraries in collaboration with the National Library of Medicine, will provide images with metadata for over 170,000 pages of manuscripts, research data, diaries, and other primary source materials from the Robert A Kehoe and Wilhelm Hueper collections. This project will help to enhance the research interests for scholars in areas as diverse as occupational medicine, environmental health, government policies, environmental law, and social history through the personal diaries of individuals who were exposed to lead. The intersection of these collections will demonstrate the historical trajectory and impact of environmental health in this country over seven decades and correlates with recent public health issues such as the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. By making these controversial papers publicly accessible and easily navigable, this project will demonstrate the library's role in bringing historical records to light with a modern-day application and relevancy.

• A Century of Development in Boston: Digitizing and Georeferencing Large-Scale Urban Atlases from 1861 to 1965

  The Leventhal Map Center's goal is to provide digital access to LMC's collection of 1861-1965 Boston area fire insurance and real estate atlases. These atlases are an invaluable resource for researching the city's physical growth and change, industrial location, immigrant neighborhoods, architectural and urban planning, environmental hazards, genealogy, and local history. Individuals using these atlases are the Map Center's largest single category of researchers, constituting about 75 percent of all inquiries. The atlases' extensive detail and accurate surveys make them especially valuable in the digital humanities, where geographically referenced versions of them can be further used in a range of software and applications as well as being spatially searched online. To complete the LMC collection and make it fully available digitally, an outside facility specializing in oversized books will digitize 27 atlases, and 60 atlases will be georeferenced so they can be easily searched, accessed, and analyzed.