Mellon Foundation awards $750K grant to support Collections as Data | UNLV University Libraries | US
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Summary:
"Thomas Padilla, Visiting Digital Research Services Librarian at the University of Nevada Las Vegas will lead Collections as Data: Part to Whole, a three-year national collections as data effort. Thomas is joined by Co-Principal Investigator Hannah Scates Kettler, from the University of Iowa, Laurie Allen, from the University of Pennsylvania, and Stewart Varner, from the University of Pennsylvania. The effort is supported by a $750,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation....
Collections as Data: Part to Whole brings the question of how to implement cultural heritage collections as data together with the question of how to develop roles and services that optimally support their scholarly use.
Collections as Data: Part to Whole builds on the work of the Institute of Museum and Library Services-supported Always Already Computational: Collections as Data, a project initiated by several members of this effort in addition to Sarah Potvin, Texas A&M University; Hannah Frost, Stanford University; and Elizabeth Russey Roke, Emory University. Collections as Data: Part to Whole will be guided by an advisory group that includes Dan Cohen, Northeastern University; Greg Eow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries; Karen Estlund, Penn State University; Trevor Munoz, University of Maryland College Park; Barbara Rockenbach, Columbia University; and Erin O’Meara, Artefactual Systems...."