Indigitization is gratified to announce a sixth call of field for a annual Indigitization Grant Program. The Indigitization Grant Program is a relating supports module ancillary audio-cassette digitization in partnership with Indigenous and Aboriginal communities opposite British Columbia.
The module seeks to foster communities and organizations in converting audio materials on cassette to uncompressed digital record formats, such as foster wave. Matching supports are supposing by a Irving K. Barber Learning Centre of adult to $10,000 per project, while participants also accept training and support via a digitization cycle. The program, that accepts applications annually, also seeks to foster extended and suitable entrance to these recordings for communities, and where possible, a broader public.
The Indigitization Grant has been revised with a new concentration form and guidelines. Previous and new field are speedy to contention proposals.
Eligibility
B.C. First Nations, Métis and Inuit village institutions and agencies that have a refuge of information resources as partial of their charge are authorised to request for funding. Other Aboriginal organizations will be deliberate with a matter of support, such as a Band Council Resolution from internal governance, indicating how a materials constructed will be managed.
Access
At-risk audio materials in B.C.’s Aboriginal communities might need digitization before entrance protocols can be established. Although extended and open entrance to informative materials is a primary idea of a Learning Centre, projects that find to settle protocol-based entrance are speedy to apply.
Deadline
To apply, greatfully email a Application Form as a PDF request to Sarah Dupont (sarah.dupont@ubc.ca) by 5pm on Mar 3, 2017. See next for Application Guidelines and Application Form.
All field will accept a acknowledgment email within 72 hours from a plan coordinator confirming that a concentration was received.
Application Guidelines (MS Word, PDF)
Application Form (MS Word, PDF)
For serve information, greatfully contact:
Sarah Dupont, Aboriginal Engagement Librarian, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, sarah.dupont@ubc.ca 604.827.0342
Gordon Yusko, Assistant Director, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, gordon.yusko@ubc.ca 604.822.2298
The module is a partnership between a Irving K Barber Learning Centre, and a UBC Museum of Anthropology, among others. The wider charge of a Indigitization Program is to concentration on a charge and refuge of Indigenous and Aboriginal village information resources.
