update on imls national digital platform

Update on IMLS National Digital Platform

November 2016

About IMLSInstitute of Museum and Library Services

Who are we?IMLS is the primary source of federal support for the nation’s libraries and museums.

What do we do?We make grants, convene groups, conduct research, and publish in order to build the capacity of museums and libraries to serve the public.

Fiscal Year 2016 Appropriations

Enacted FY2016 budget$230,000,000

LIBRARY GRANTS TO STATES

ADMINISTRATION

MUSEUM DISCRETIONARYGRANTS

LIBRARY DISCRETIONARY GRANTS

Museum and Library Grants: Who is eligible to apply?

Generally, a non-profit museum or library located in the United States, its territories, or a freely associated state

Check specific program guidelines on the IMLS website for more details. Additional types of organizations are eligible for some programs.

• aquariums• arboretums• art museums• botanical gardens• children’s/youth museums• historic houses/sites• history museums• natural history/anthropology

museums• nature centers• planetariums• science/technology centers• specialized museums• zoological parks

“Museums” include:

Museum and Library Grants: Who is ineligible to apply?

• A for-profit organization• An individual• A federally funded institution• A foreign country or

organization

Please note:If you are a non-eligible institution, we encourage you to apply through a partnership with an eligible institution.

National Digital Platform

the national digital platform is the combination of software, social and technical infrastructure & staff expertise that provide library content and services to all users in the United States.


The platform isn’t an individual thing. It isn’t a piece of software, or a website. The platform is what all those things add up to.


It is possible for every library in the country to leverage and benefit from the work of other libraries in shared digital services, systems and infrastructure.


foundations of the national digital platform already exist


prioritize improving & connecting promising digital tools & services that have clear potential to scale


In 2015 and 2016 IMLS convened stakeholders to provide input on the national digital platform portfolio

The results of the 2015 convening are available distilled in this report http://1.usa.gov/1Xkxrcw

http://1.usa.gov/1Xkxrcw

http://1.usa.gov/1Xkxrcw


Key Themes from the 2015 event included Engaging, Mobilizing and Connecting

Communities Leveraging linked open data to connect

content across institutions and amplify impact

Shifting to continuous professional learning as part of library professional practice


Engaging, Mobilizing and Connecting Communities Engaging users in national digital platform projects

through crowdsourcing and other approaches Establishing radical and systematic collaborations

across sectors of the library, archives, and museum communities, as well as with other allied institutions

Championing diversity and inclusion by ensuring that the national digital platform serves and represents a wide range of communities

Establishing and Refining Tools & Infrastructure


Leveraging linked open data to connect content across institutions and amplify impact Focusing on documentation and system

interoperability across digital library software projects

Researching and developing tools and services that leverage computational methods to increase accessibility and scale practice across individual projects


Shifting to continuous professional learning as part of library professional practice Focusing on hands-on training to develop

computational literacy in formal library education programs

Educating librarians and archivists to meet the emerging digital needs of libraries and archives, including cross-training in technical and other skills

Library Grant Programs

Libraries & Museums Advance the Digital Humanities

Program Goals

Through this partnership, IMLS and NEH will jointly fund Digital Humanities Advancement Grant projects that involve collaborations with museums and/or libraries in support of the National Digital Platform effort.

Level I (from $5,000 to $40,000) Level II (from $40,001 to $75,000)

Deadlines January 11th, 2017

Amount Level I (from $5,000 to $40,000) Level II (from $40,001 to $75,000)

Cost Share


Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program

Program Goals

The Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (LB21) supports professional development, graduate education, and continuing education to help libraries and archives develop a diverse workforce of librarians to better meet the changing learning and information needs of the American public.

Deadlines February 1st 2017

Amount $50,000-$1,000,000

Cost Share Cost share requirements vary with project type


Almost all the narratives for these projects are available online

imls.gov/grants/awarded/LG-70-15-0006-15

Just put the log # in the last part

https://www.imls.gov/grants/awarded/LG-70-15-0006-15

Tools for Born Digital Content

Email: Process, Appraise, Discover, Deliver – ePADD Phase 2 $685,129.00 and $685,129.00 in cost share

– Stanford University Libraries, with partners University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Harvard University, University of California, Irvine, and Metropolitan New York Library Council, will significantly improve ePADD, an open-source software package that supports archival processes around the appraisal, ingest, processing, discovery, and delivery of email archives. This phase of development will greatly expand the program's scalability, usability, and feature set.

– https://www.imls.gov/grants/awarded/LG-70-15-0242-15




Tools for Born Digital Content

A Re-enactment Tool for Collections of Digital Artifacts $109,494 and $169,970 in cost share

– Rhizome, an international born-digital art organization, in partnership with Yale University and the University of Freiburg, will enhance a set of software tools connecting archives of digital artifacts and emulation frameworks. The project will greatly increase the viability of emulation as a preservation strategy by making environments of legacy software manageable for collection managers. This proposed project responds to the disparity between the proven viability of emulation as a digital preservation strategy and the practical needs of collection managers.




Scaling up Shared Services

Periods, Organized (PeriodO) 2: Linking, Discovering, and Reconciling Information about the Past $247,771 and $10,027 in cost share

– The University of Texas at Austin will significantly expand the usefulness of the PeriodO platform and dataset beyond archaeology to meet the needs of a broader audience of librarians, data managers, scholars, and students across the academic spectrum. The project will complete a set of visualization tools for searching and filtering in the graphic user interface and provide workshops to explore the role PeriodO might play in the management and discoverability of their data.



Access for All and Inclusion

Creating digital library (DL) design guidelines on accessibility, usability and utility for blind and visually impaired (BVI) users $495,600 and $214,664 in cost share

– The University of Wisconsin and partners will collaborate to develop digital library design guidelines on accessibility, usability, and utility for blind and visually impaired (BVI) users. The project is motivated by the belief that approximately 20.6 million Americans with significant vision loss cannot use digital libraries effectively due to their sight-centered design. Accessibility guidelines exist but fail to address help-seeking situations of blind and visually impaired (BVI) users in their interactions with digital libraries.



Access for All and Inclusion

Diversifying the Digital Historical Record: Integrating Community Archives in National Strategies for Access to Digital Cultural Heritage $100,000

– The Amistad Research Center, in collaboration with the Shorefront Legacy Center, the South Asian American Digital Archive, Mukurtu, and the Inland Empire Memories Project of the University of California-Riverside, will use a National Forum grant to host a series of meetings that will focus on integrating community archives in the National Digital Platform. Outcomes of the project will include a summary white paper providing recommendations for increased representation of marginalized communities and people in our digital cultural heritage.




National Leadership Grants for Libraries

Program Goals

To support projects that address challenges faced by the library and archive fields, and have the potential to advance theory or practice in those fields.

Deadlines September 1, 2016February 1st 2017

Amount $10,000-$2,000,000

Cost Share Cost share requirements vary with project type

Digital Education and Training

Art Information Professionals: A National Digital Stewardship Residency Program $421,750 The Philadelphia Museum of Art will partner with the Art

Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) to adapt the existing National Digital Stewardship residency (NDSR) program to create a curriculum focused on art information management. The project will support eight residents over two years. Residents will complete projects at art and cultural heritage libraries across the country, increasing the functionality and accessibility of their host institutions' digital content and services.

https://www.imls.gov/grants/awarded/RE-40-16-0105-16


Digital Education and Training

Foundations to Actions: Extending Innovations in Digital Libraries in Partnership with NDSR Learners $370,756 and $129,739 in cost share

– The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), led by the Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University (MCZ), will host a National Digital Stewardship Residency (NDSR) cohort. The NDSR cohort will include five residents from across the country, all graduates of LIS or related master's programs, in a collaborative project to improve tools, curation, and content stewardship at BHL. Each host institution will provide mentorship to a resident for a specific project designed to improve the functionality of BHL and will identify how tools and processes may be transferred to or from other digital library and museum environments.

– https://www.imls.gov/grants/awarded/RE-40-16-0082-16


Resources from IMLS

www.imls.gov

Program Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFO)

Eligibility criteria Application process Sample applications Awarded grants Peer-reviewer

resources

How to Contact Us

Trevor OwensOffice of Library Services

[email protected]@tjowens

Thank you and good luck!

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