Subject: DISCUSSION--DLI-2: MAJOR FUNDING OPPORTUNITY FOR NETWORKING CULTURAL HERITAGE
David Green (david@ninch.org)
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 17:12:09 -0500
Message-Id: <v02130520b124c31296be@[192.100.21.23]> Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 17:12:09 -0500 To: ninch-announce@cni.org, mlesk@nsf.gov, gasser@dli-sun.iris.cise-nsf.gov, sgriffin@nsf.gov, Susan.Hockey@ualberta.ca, dwaters@clir.org, From: david@ninch.org (David Green) Subject: DISCUSSION--DLI-2: MAJOR FUNDING OPPORTUNITY FOR NETWORKING CULTURAL HERITAGE
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NINCH DISCUSSION
MAJOR FUNDING OPPORTUNITY FOR NETWORKING CULTURAL HERITAGE
I should like to invite discussion on the NINCH-Announce list about the
kinds of research and demonstration projects we would wish to see submitted
for the Digital Libraries Initiative--Phase 2.
[See NINCH-Announce posting 2/23; NSF announcement:
<http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1998/nsf9863/nsf9863.htm>; NEH announcement:
<http://www.neh.gov/html/guidelin/dli2.html>]
As part of this grant initiative, NEH has written that it "could
support the creation of testbeds comprising digitized humanities
collections from libraries, archives, museums, and historical
organizations; the development and testing of metadata for describing
and preserving access to digital humanities objects; and other
activities that establish a clearer understanding of the ways in which
digitized collections can be used for education, research, and public
programming in the humanities."
Quoting selectively from the NSF release: "...the Digital Libraries
Initiative - Phase 2 plans to:
* Selectively build on and extend research and testbed activities in
promising digital libraries areas;
* Accelerate development, management and accessibility of digital content
and collections;
* Create new capabilities and opportunities for digital libraries to serve
existing and new user communities, including all levels of education;
* Encourage the study of interactions between humans and digital libraries
in various social and organizational contexts.
.........
"PROGRAM GOALS
The primary purposes of this initiative are to provide leadership in
research fundamental to the development of the next generation of digital
libraries, to advance the use and usability of globally distributed,
networked information resources, and to encourage existing and new
communities to focus on innovative applications areas.
"Since digital libraries can serve as intellectual infrastructure, this
Initiative looks to stimulate partnering arrangements necessary to create
next-generation operational systems in such areas as education, engineering
and design, earth and space sciences, biosciences, geography, economics,
and the arts and humanities. It will address the digital libraries life
cycle from information creation, access and use, to archiving and
preservation."
NINCH, as a coalition, would look especially for major projects that would
involve libraries, archives, museums, and contemporary arts institutions
working together.
We are also reminded of the issues, problems, needs and agenda for further
work laid forth in the Getty-supported "Research Agenda for Networked
Cultural Heritage" <http://www.gii.getty.edu/ranch/index.html>, published
in 1996--and invite the contributors to that volume to join this
discussion.
The broad questions are, I would submit: to assess what this community's
most pressing needs are now in relation to research developments and
real-world accomplishments by the broader "digital library" community; and
what types of arts and humanities-specific applications do we most want to
see?
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David L. Green
Executive Director
NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE
21 Dupont Circle, NW
Washington DC 20036
www-ninch.cni.org
david@ninch.org
202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax
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