Resources
Digital Media and Learning Competition
Deadline: October 15, 2008
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, in collaboration with the University of California, Irvine, Duke University and the virtual network HASTAC, has announced a second annual open-call competition that will provide $2 million in awards to innovators shaping the field of digital media and learning. The Digital Media and Learning Competition has been expanded to pilot international submissions and introduce a new category focusing on young innovators aged 18-25.
Awards will be given in two categories:
- Innovation in Participatory Learning Awards—winners will receive between $30,000 and $250,000
- Young Innovator Awards—winners will receive between $5,000 and $30,000
Winners will be announced in April 2009 >>>
Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants
From the National Endowment for the Humanities
Deadline: October 8, 2008 (for projects beginning in April 2009)
 The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) invite applications to the Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program. This program is designed to encourage innovations in the digital humanities. By awarding relatively low-dollar grants to support the planning stages, NEH aims to encourage the development of projects that are particularly innovative and have the potential to make a positive impact on the humanities.
NEH and IMLS encourage library and museum officials as well as scholars, scientists, educational institutions, and other non-profit organizations to apply for these grants and to collaborate when appropriate. >>>
The International Survey of Library & Museum Digitization Projects
The International Survey of Library & Museum Digitization Projects, published by Primary Research Group, presents detailed data about the management and development of more than 100 special collection and museum digitization programs from libraries and museums in the United States, Canada, Australia, Italy, the UK and other countries.
The report presents data and narrative on funding, collaboration, outsourcing, staffing, technology selection, digital asset management, cataloging, copyright clearance, impact of digitization on preservation medium and other issues of interest to libraries and museums that are digitizing aspects of their collections.
Just a few of the report's many findings are that:
- More than 60% of the funding for the projects in the sample is derived from the library budget itself.
- More than 53% of the organizations have teamed up with another department or faculty to work jointly on a digitization project.
- Nearly 49% of the organizations in the sample outsource some form of digitization, in whole or in part, to an outside party. Museums were more likely than other organizations to do this kind of outsourcing; more than 61% of the museums in the sample outsourced.
- Institutions had a mean of 4.43 individuals who spent at least part of their working day on digitization projects, with a maximum of 20.
- Organizations spent a mean of $21,839 on equipment to duplicate, record, photograph, scan or transform content into digital formats.
- Photographic-intensive projects were more likely to describe themselves as being deficient in mastering digitization skills; more than 31% of these organizations said they had a great deal to learn.
- 17.7% of the organizations license or rent use of any aspect of their digital collection to outside parties.
For further information, or to order a copy of the full report, click here
Deluxe Archive Solutions Sponsors AMIA's DAS 2008
Deluxe Archive Solutions is pleased to announce our Silver Sponsorship of the Association of Moving Image Archivists' Digital Asset Symposium (DAS 2008) conference.
AMIA is a non-profit professional association established to advance the field of moving image archiving. Deluxe Archive
Solutions shares AMIA's focus on
the acquisition, description, preservation, exhibition and use of moving image materials.
DAS 2008 will be held April 25 , 2008 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. >>>
Deluxe Sponsors Maritime Heritage Conference 2007
 Deluxe Digital Media (DDM) was a Gold Sponsor of the Eighth Annual Maritime Heritage Conference 2007, hosted by the Maritime Museum of San Diego. Deluxe's Tyler Leshney and Bert Creighton presented a session on "Unlocking the Value in Dynamic Media Archives." Download a PDF of their presentation to learn more about the issues of archive access and preservation, which have been opposing forces for many years. Learn how new technologies, distribution channels and business approaches have changed the tide of "access vs. preservation" into "access + preservation = win win."
Deluxe is providing media management experience, services and consulting to archives owners. We are sharing our vision of how to turn stored archives from a resource drain into a resource generator that is focused on your organization's annual goals. Contact us to see how we may support your organization, whether your archive or collection is related to maritime heritage or has a different focus. We'll share our vision of how you can manage, migrate and maximize your archive's valuable elements.
Download "Unlocking the Value in Dynamic Media Archives" >>> (PDF, 2 MB)
Heritage
Health Index Summary Report >>>
 The
Heritage Health Index Report is the first comprehensive
survey ever conducted of the condition and preservation
needs of our nation's collections. The project
was conceived and implemented by the nonprofit organization
Heritage Preservation, in partnership with the federal
Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Over 4.8 billion artifacts are held in
public trust by more than 30,000 archives, historical
societies, libraries, museums, scientific research collections,
and archaeological repositories in the United States.
These artifacts embody the richness and diversity of
our heritage and include rare books and manuscripts,
photographs, documents, sound recordings, moving images,
digital materials, art, historic and ethnographic objects,
archaeological artifacts, and natural science specimens. A
Public Trust At Risk: The Heritage Health Index Report
on the State of America's Collections examines the
current condition of – and potential risks to – these
collections.
Heritage
Health Index Full Report >>>
 Download
the Heritage Health Index Full Report by sections,
or as a single PDF file.
Stewardship
in the Digital Age - WebWise 2007 >>>
 Selected
papers from the Eighth Annual Conference on Libraries and
Mueums in the Digital World.
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Drawing on rarely displayed documents, audio recordings, and film footage culled from the extensive holdings of the National Archives and its Presidential libraries, "Eyewitness" features first-person accounts of watershed moments in history.
This exhibit features 50 photographs from the museum's collection on display for the first time. Steichen and the photographers under his supervision produced many of the most famous images of the war in the Pacific.
Painted or printed images on glass were among the earliest forms of projected "motion picture" entertainment. Mechanical glass slides were manipulated to simulate various kinds of change in the image, and multiple projectors allowed for superimposed and dissolving views. Experimental media artist Ernie Gehr's Panoramas of the Moving Image (2005) is a synchronized five-channel video installation that uses eighty-seven original slides and views selected from Gehr's personal collection and that of renowned pre-cinema collector David Francis.
The San Diego UnderSea Film Exhibition (UFEX) had its debut in 2000 with a night of underwater digital films presented at the Otto Center of the San Diego Zoo in Balboa Park. That first year was a rousing success, and laid the groundwork for an approach to presenting underwater digital video in San Diego that emphasizes the enjoyment and appreciation of underwater images.