Digital Information Technology and the Dissemination of Knowledge - Grants
Recent grants in this program include:
| Organization Name | Project Director | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| PALINET | Catherine C. Wilt | To encourage a regional scanning center in the mid-Atlantic for digitizing library collections under open principles. |
| The Internet Archive | Brewster Kahle | To help organize and facilitate the creation of an open, online digital library. |
| Wikimedia Foundation | Erik Moller | To develop Wikimedia's organizational capacity and improve the quality of its flagship Wikipedia along with ancillary educational services. |
| Public Library of Science | Peter Jerram | To develop a business plan for creating on-line hubs around scientific and medical subjects. |
| Boston Library Consortium | Barbara Preece | To hold a major summit on mass book digitization. |
| Open Knowledge Commons, Inc. | Maura Marx | to establish a chief coordinating body to help organize and facilitate the creation of an open, online digital library |
| Library of Congress | Deanna Marcum | To digitize 136,000 public domain books and to develop mass digitization capability for the world's largest library. |
| The Internet Archive | Brewster Kahle | To digitize select high-profile collections from five world-class institutions and strengthen the open access approach to recorded knowledge. |
| New Orleans Public Library Foundation | Elisabeth A. Konrad | Pilot project to replace Katrina-damage book inventory and serve local citizens and students by installing an Espresso Book Machine in the New Orleans Public Library system. |