[OPLINLIST] NEH is soliciting proposals from institutions to participate in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

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Opportunity #1
National Digital Newspaper Program (National Endowment for the Humanities )
20150115-PJ

Brief Summary

NEH is soliciting proposals from institutions to participate in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). NDNP is creating a national digital resource of historically significant newspapers published between 1836 and 1922, from all the states and U.S. territories. This searchable database will be permanently maintained at the Library of Congress (LC) and will be freely accessible via the Internet. (See the website, Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers<http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/>.) An accompanying national newspaper directory of bibliographic and holdings information on the website directs users to newspaper titles available in all types of formats. During the course of its partnership with NEH, LC will also digitize and contribute to the NDNP database a significant number of newspaper pages drawn from its own collections.



NEH intends to support projects in all states and U.S. territories, provided that sufficient funds allocated for this purpose are available. One organization within each U.S. state or territory will receive an award to collaborate with relevant state partners in this effort. Previously funded projects will be eligible to receive supplements for continued work, but the program will give priority to new projects. In particular, the program will give priority to projects from states and territories that have not received NDNP funding.



Program Statistics

In the last five competitions the National Digital Newspaper Program received an average of sixteen applications per year. The program made an average of twelve awards per year, for a funding ratio of 75 percent.



Projects are typically based on statewide collaborations between major repositories of microfilm of historic newspapers and institutions with the technical capacity to launch long-term digitization efforts.  On the one hand, this results in a relatively small number of applications each year. On the other hand, the quality of the applications tends to be very high, so that most applicants have historically received funding.



The number of applications to an NEH grant program can vary widely year to year, as can the success ratio. Information about the average number of applications and awards in recent competitions is meant only to provide historical context for the current competition. Information on the number of applications and awards in individual competitions is available from preservation at neh.gov<mailto:preservation at neh.gov>.



Program questions should be directed to NEH's Division of Preservation and Access at 202-606-8570 or preservation at neh.gov<mailto:preservation at neh.gov>. Hearing-impaired applicants can contact NEH via TDD at 1-866-372-2930. Technical questions should be directed to the Library of Congress at ndnptech at loc.gov<mailto:ndnptech at loc.gov>. Technical documentation of the current phase of the program is available at http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/

Deadline: January 15, 2015
Link: http://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/national-digital-newspaper-program



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