We are happy to announce a call for proposals for the second round of funding for The Email Archives: Building Capacity and Community (EA:BCC) program. The EA:BCC is led by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, this program invites proposals that foster the ability of archives, libraries, and museums to preserve email records.
For more information regarding this opportunity and to apply for an EA:BCC grant, please visit the project website https://emailarchivesgrant.library.illinois.edu/.
Here are a few important facts about the program:
- The EA:BCC is generously sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- The second round of proposals is due June 30th.
- Projects may begin as early as January 1, 2022.
- All projects must be completed by December 30, 2023.
- Proposed projects must support the regrant program's overall goals while seeking to build the email archiving community. For example, projects might undertake activities like these
- Implement email acquisition, processing, discovery, and delivery services that are suitable to a wide range of archival repositories.
- Foster specific process improvements to increase email archives tool functionality and interoperability.
- Highlight specific processed email collections
- Demonstrate how other archives, libraries, and museums can process and provide access to email using community-supported tools.
- Funding Ideas
- Low Barrier Email Archiving - Develop or refer to use-cases from "A Specification for Using PDF to package and represent email".
- Tools to harvest linked content - Integrate a web archiving tool to capture linked content
- Projects focusing on local government emails and non-governmental organizations
- Community email archiving - Partnerships between archives and community groups, or those leading social change, to capture email archives and develop a framework for ethical practice in email archiving.
- Any other ideas you might bring to the table!
- Collaborative partnerships and projects are particularly encouraged.
- A peer advisory board will vet proposals.
- Funding needs of $25,000 to $100,000 USD are eligible for support.
- Pre-submission feedback is available!
We will be hosting a webinar on April 26, 2021, from 2:00 - 3:00 (CT)--at which point we'll also announce and honor the five institutions who have been awarded first round grants. We will also provide more details about the program and how to apply! You can register for the upcoming webinar at this link, https://forms.illinois.edu/sec/870576938. The webinar will provide more details about the program.
CHRIS PROM
Associate Dean for Digital Strategies
University Library
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1408 W. Gregory Drive, #246G | M/C 522
Urbana, IL 61820
+1 (217 )244-2052 | prom@illinois.edu
www.library.illinois.edu
RUBY LORRAINE MARTINEZ
Email Archives Community Fellow
Office of Digital Strategies
e: rubylm2@illinois.edu