Preservation and Access Research and Development Grants

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	Federal Grant Title:	Preservation and Access Research and Development Grants
	CFDA Number:	45.149
	CFDA Description:	Promotion of the Humanities_Division of Preservation and Access
	Federal Agency Name:	National Endowment for the Humanities
	Category of Funding Activity:	Humanities
	Category Explanation:	Information not provided
	Opportunity Category:	Discretionary
	Funding Opportunity Number:	20110519-PR
	Document Type:	Grants Notice
	Funding Instrument Type:	Grant
	Posted Date:	Feb 25, 2011
	Creation Date:	Feb 22, 2011
	Original Closing Date for Applications:	May 19, 2011
	Current Closing Date for Applications:	May 19, 2011
	Archive Date:	Jun 18, 2011
	Expected Number of Awards:	5
	Estimated Total Program Funding:	Information not provided
	Federal Grant Award Ceiling:	350,000
	Federal Grant Award Floor:	Information not provided
	Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:	No

Applicants Eligible for this Grant: State governments
County governments
City or township governments
Special district governments
Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
Private institutions of higher education
Additional Information on Eligibility: Information not provided
Grant Description: Preservation and Access Research and Development grants support projects that address major challenges in preserving or providing access to humanities collections and resources. These challenges include the need to find better ways to preserve materials of critical importance to the nation's cultural heritage from fragile artifacts and manuscripts to analog recordings and digital assets subject to technological obsolescence and to develop advanced modes of searching, discovering, and using such materials. Applicants should define a specific problem, devise procedures and potential solutions, and explain how they would evaluate their projects and disseminate their findings. Project results must serve the needs of a significant segment of humanists. Eligible projects include the development of technical standards, best practices, and tools for preserving and creating access to humanities collections; the exploration of more effective scientific and technical methods of preserving humanities collections; the development of automated procedures and computational tools to integrate, analyze, and repurpose humanities data in disparate online resources; and the investigation and testing of new ways of providing digital access to humanities materials that are not easily digitized using current methods. NEH especially encourages applications that address the following topics: Digital Preservation: how to preserve digital humanities materials, including born-digital materials, for which there is no analog counterpart; Recorded Sound and Moving Image Collections: how to preserve and increase access to the record of the twentieth century contained in these formats; and Preventive Conservation: how to protect and slow the deterioration of humanities collections through the use of sustainable preservation strategies.
Link to Full Grant Announcement: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/pard.html
Grant Announcement Contact: Preservation and Access Research and Development Room 411 National Endowment for the Humanities 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20506 202-606-8570

preservation@neh.gov [preservation@neh.gov]
Similar Government Grants: • Humanities Collections and Reference Resources; • Preservation and Access Education and Training Grants; • Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions; • National Digital Newspaper Program; • Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections; • Stabilization of Humanities Collections Grants; • Grants to Preserve and Create Access to Humanities Collections; • Reference Material Grants