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ANNUAL REPORT, FY 1998
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Grant Proposals Submitted by Grants Office, FY 1998
| Funding Agency |
Lead Staff Member(s) |
Date Submitted |
Expected Decision Date |
Amount Requested |
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| NEH |
Charles Lowry, Betty Day |
May 1, 1998 |
December 1999 |
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| Description: Challenge grant to create a Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. Partnership with the College of Arts and Humanities. The center would enable humanities research through the use of new technologies. It would also empower faculty and students to incorporate this information into their research and teaching, to build digital collections, and to create new communities of humanities scholarship. |
| NEH |
Desider Vikor, Amy Wasserstrom |
July 1, 1998 |
April 1999 |
$450,000.00 |
| Description: Support of the Prange Newspaper Project. Funding to complete the microfilming of the project. |
| NSF |
Charles Lowry, Tony Conto, Bruce Wilson |
July 15, 1998 |
October 1998 |
$1,329,606 (over five years) |
| Description: Partnership with Indiana University and UC Berkeley to create a Digital Music Library. |
| NSF |
Charles Lowry, Tom Connors, Chuck Howell |
July 15, 1998 |
October 1998 |
$599,813 (over three years) |
| Description: Partnership with CLIS and UMIACS to research search techniques for sound recordings using speech technology. Project will involve digitizing 6,600 hours of archived recordings in the Broadcasting Archives. |
| Nippon Foundation |
Desider Vikor, Amy Wasserstrom |
August 6, 1998 |
December 1998 |
$750,000 (over two years) |
| Description: First year funding will help to complete microfilming of the Prange newspaper collection. Funding for year two will support a book collection survey and cataloging of approximately 5,500 books. |
| TOTAL GRANT FUNDS REQUESTED: |
$3,129,419 |
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