PRESS RELEASE
*Mellon Foundation, NHPRC Announce Digital Publication Grant Winners*
*Recipients to Explore New and Sustainable Ways to Publish Primary
Materials Critical to Research and Scholarship.*
NEW YORK, NY, February 14, 2018 — The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the
National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) today
announced the winners of eight planning grants to build a sustainable
system for the digital publication and discovery of historical records. The
Digital Edition Publishing Cooperatives Program, first announced as a
partnership between the Mellon Foundation and the NHPRC in 2017, will
support efforts to make historical records readily accessible to scholars,
students, and the American people.
Winners include:
Bucknell College
REED London: Creating Collaborative Environments for Editorial Publication
Kentucky Historical Society
Nineteenth Century Digital
Cooperative
Massachusetts Historical Society
A 21st-Century Digital
Platform for 19th-Century Analog Content
Stanford University
Modern African American
Freedom Struggle Digital Publishing Cooperative
Texas A&M University
ARCScholar: A Digital Publishing
Cooperative
University of California Santa Cruz
Scholarship in 3D Digital
Edition Publishing Cooperative
University of Virginia
University of
Virginia Digital Publishing Cooperative: Developing Infrastructures for the
Creation, Publication, and Discovery of Digital Scholarly Editions and
Projects
Wheaton College
Digital
Edition Publishing Cooperative for Historical Accounts (DEPCHA)
To see the full press release, visit:
https://mellon.org/resources/news/articles/mellon-foundation-nhprc-announce-digital-publication-grant-winners/
OR
https://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/nr18-29
For a description of each team, visit:
https://mellon.org/resources/news/articles/digital-publicaton-grant-winners/
Each of the eight project teams receiving funding will design a cooperative
infrastructure for publication, including digital repositories and
discovery tools. Each cooperative will identify and integrate shared
standards, practices, and policies so that the resulting infrastructure
fully exploits the synergies among editions and enables them to interact.
Project teams also will collaboratively explore ways to operate as a
federated system: to build broader connections at the level of technical
infrastructure, shared semantics, and cooperative policies. During the
proposed planning year, project teams will discuss policies concerning
rights and access, common use of linked open data standards, a possible
system of shared governance, and a means of sustaining the work.
“Assembling primary source evidence in critical scholarly editions is one
of the humanities’ most important contributions to our collective
understanding of the world and its people,” said Donald Waters, senior
program officer at the Mellon Foundation. “Since the early 1990s, scholars
have used the digital medium to present these editions to the public,
especially when the relevant evidence is in various formats, including
texts, maps, audio, and still and moving images. With support from the
eight grants in the Mellon-NHPRC Digital Edition Publishing Cooperatives
Program, scholars will be collaborating to find common platforms, tools,
procedures, and other economical means to be even more effective in
creating and publishing critical editions of vital primary source evidence.”
Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero said, “At the National
Archives, our very mission is to make records accessible. We are honored
to be part of this project and delighted to join with the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation to help make our nation's historical records more widely
available to anyone, anywhere, and at no cost. These cooperatives will
explore technologies to revolutionize online historical research."
This is the first of a two-stage process for planning and implementation.
During the one-year planning stage, each team will develop a proposal for
implementing a Digital Edition Publishing Cooperative. At a second stage,
after reviewing the submitted proposals in 2019, the Mellon Foundation and
NHPRC anticipate awarding three implementation grants between $350,000 and
$500,000, each for up to three years, for a total of up to $1.25 million.
MEDIA CONTACT
Laura Washington
212-500-2554
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Keith Donohue
202-357-5365
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R. Darrell Meadows, Ph.D.
Director for Publishing
National Historical Publications and Records Commission
National Archives and Records Administration
700 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 114
Washington, DC 20408
P: 202.357.5321
F: 202.357.5914
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www.archives.gov/nhprc
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