[1] From: Adriaan van der Weel (15)
<aweel@letmail.let.LeidenUniv.nl>
Subject: Electronic Text Centre Leiden
[2] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> (137)
Subject: AWARDS: DLI2; LC-AMERITECH
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Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 22:55:41 +0100
From: Adriaan van der Weel <aweel@letmail.let.LeidenUniv.nl>
Subject: Electronic Text Centre Leiden
[The following I requested from Dr van der Weel, and he has kindly supplied
it. --WM]
The Electronic Text Centre Leiden was founded jointly by the University
Library, the university's IT centre and the Faculty of Arts in late 1997
to bring together existing expertise and to develop further expertise,
draw up standards, and initiate activities regarding digitisation,
electronic publication and archiving of texts at Leiden University.
Central among the Centre's activities has been the development of a
(TEI-encoded) textbase of primary and secondary texts for consultation
on the WWW. Initially texts have been mainly selected from
seventeenth-century Dutch sources (see some provisional examples on
www.etcl.nl/goldenage).
One of the ETCL's concerns is to propose a standard for basic TEI
encoding of Dutch literary works, to achieve maximum efficiency in
encoding activities in Dutch literary and cultural studies.
Adriaan van der Weel
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Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 22:56:16 +0100
From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: AWARDS: DLI2; LC-AMERITECH
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
May 17 1999
CONTINUING ANNOUNCEMENTS OF DLI2 GRANTS
<http://www.dli2.nsf.gov/projects.html>http://www.dli2.nsf.gov/projects.html
SIX GRANT WINNERS ANNOUNCED OF FINAL LIBRARY OF CONGRESS-AMERITECH COMPETITION
<http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award/99award/award99.html>http://memory.loc.go
v/ammem/award/99award/award99.html
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CONTINUING ANNOUNCEMENTS OF DLI2 GRANTS
<http://www.dli2.nsf.gov/projects.html>http://www.dli2.nsf.gov/projects.html
Today is the deadline for submission of applications to the second year
competition for the National Sceince Foundation's Digital Libraries
Initiative-Phase 2 (DLI2). Announcements of the winners of the first
competition are being staggered, as paperwork is completed, and are available
at
<http://www.dli2.nsf.gov/projects.html>http://www.dli2.nsf.gov/projects.html.
Of the ten grants announced to date, two will especially interest this
community:
* The Digital Atheneum: New Techniques for Restoring, Searching, and Editing
Humanities Collections
<<http://www.uky.edu/~kiernan/eBeowulf/atheneum.htm>http://www.uky.edu/~kier
nan/eBeowulf/atheneum.htm>
* Digital Workflow Management: The Lester S. Levy Digitized Collection of Sheet
Music, Phase Two
<<http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/showaward?award=9817430>http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-
bin/showaward?award=9817430>
The first of these will develop new tools for the creation of digital libraries
from damaged manuscripts for use by humanities scholars. Tools include "new
illumination techniques; creation of a semantic object model and framework for
creating digital collections that will support domain or data-specific
restoration and content-based search/access; and incorporation of novel
processing techniques for digitally restoring, enhancing, and searching/
annotating manuscripts that have suffered damage."
The second project will create sound renditions and enhanced search
capabilities for a collection of over 29,000 digitized pieces of American
popular sheet music (1780 to 1960) at Johns Hopkins University's Levy
Collection of Sheet Music. "Audio files and full-text lyrics are being created
using optical music recognition software written by staff from the Peabody
Conservatory at Hopkins. Workflow managing tools will be developed to reduce
and focus human labor. The activities will result in a tested process,
framework, and set of tools transferable for use with other large-scale
digitization projects."
David Green
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SIX GRANT WINNERS ANNOUNCED IN FINAL LIBRARY OF CONGRESS-AMERITECH COMPETITION
<http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award/99award/award99.html>http://memory.loc.go
v/ammem/award/99award/award99.html
The winners were recently announced of the third of three years of grants
offered by the Library of Congress with the Ameritech Corporation to create
digital collections of primary material that could be incorporated into LC's
National Digital Library.
David Green
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>Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 10:54:06 -0400
>From: Tamara Swora-Gober <tswo@loc.gov>
>Organization: Library of Congress
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This message has been widely posted
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Announcement of Library of Congress-Ameritech National Digital Library
Competition Award Winners
Thanks to a generous gift from the Ameritech Corporation, over the past
three years the Library of Congress has sponsored a competition to
enable public, research, and academic libraries, museums, historical
societies, and archival institutions (except federal institutions) to
create digital collections of primary resources. These digital
collections are incorporated into the National Digital Library. The
Ameritech program has helped to connect libraries of different sizes and
scope and also brings together important historical documents dispersed
among institutions throughout the United States.
In this the final year of the grant program, grants were awarded to six
institutions. Information about the winners can be found at the
following url
<http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award/99award/award99.html>http://memory.loc.g
ov/ammem/award/99award/award99.html.
Information about the program including lists of previous winners can be
found at
<http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award/index.html>http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/a
ward/index.html
The winners are: (in alphabetical order of lead institution)
Lee Library, Brigham Young University with the Utah Academic Library
Consortium, and the Utah State Historical Society: Pioneer Trails: Overland to
Utah and the Pacific, 1847-1869 155 items (approximately 6,040 pages) from 59
diaries of overland trail
experiences written between 1847 and 1869, along with 16 maps, 75
photographs and illustrations, and selections from 5 immigrant guides.
Michigan State University with Central Michigan University: Shaping the Values
of Youth: A Nineteenth Century American Sunday School Book Collection 121
American Sunday school books published between 1815 and 1865 by The American
Tract Society, the American Sunday School Union, and other religious publishers
to teach juvenile readers moral conduct and good citizenship.
Mystic Seaport Museum: Maritime Westward Expansion 7,500 items from the
archival
collections dating from the mid to late
nineteenth century, including logbooks, diaries, letters, business
papers and other manuscript items, images, imprints and ephemera, and
maps and charts offering a unique maritime perspective on the history of
westward expansion in the U.S.
The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, with the
California Historical Society: Chinese in California, 1850-1920 12,500 items,
including photographs, cartoons, personal diaries,
business records, broadsides, pamphlets, and other printed matter
documenting nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration
to California and the West.
University of Chicago Library with the Filson Club Historical Society of
Louisville, Kentucky: The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820
745 items (15,050 pages) from the rare books, pamphlets, newspapers,
maps, prints, and manuscripts collected by Reuben T. Durrett and by the
Filson Club Historical Society, documenting the settlement of Ohio River
Valley from 1750 to 1820. [Also winners in 1996/97]
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: The Church in The Southern Black
Community: Beginnings to 1920 19,000 pages from approximately 100 works,
including autobiographies,
sermons, church reports, religious periodicals, and denominational
histories, tracing the experience of Southern African Americans and the
transformation of Protestant Christianity into the central institution
of black community life. [Also winners in 1996/97.]
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David L. Green
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