The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) requests proposals for a special funded round of its Advanced Collaborative Support (ACS) program, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for HTRC’s “Scholar-Curated Worksets for Analysis, Reuse & Dissemination (SCWAReD)” project.
ACS is a scholarly service offering collaboration between researchers and HTRC staff to solve challenging problems related to computational analysis of the HathiTrust corpus. In this special cycle of ACS, we seek to collaborate with scholars to recover volumes in HathiTrust that tell the story of historically under-resourced and marginalized textual communities, and to identify gaps in the HathiTrust collection where such communities are not represented in the digital library.
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Work with HTRC throughout the course of their award cycle to fulfill a set of agreed-upon outcomes in the spirit of the collaborative mission of the ACS program.
Participate in regular conference calls and project meetings.
Attend two workshops with other project teams and HTRC staff (summer 2021 and summer 2022). Travel will be covered in addition to the general project stipend.
Write a white paper reporting on the outcomes of the project that will be made available open-access by HTRC.
Share the data and research outputs of the project, such as the HTRC workset, a scholarly introduction and apparatus, technical and user-focused documentation, and derived data, openly via HTRC-hosted mechanisms. All products must be released under an open access license, such as one included in the Open Source Initiative (https://opensource.org/).
HTRC Context
HTRC services are built to analyze, and are developed from, the text corpus of the HathiTrust Digital Library, a corpus of 17.4 million volumes digitized from over 50 research libraries in North America, Asia, Europe, and Australia. Approximately 60% of the corpus is in copyright and therefore not available for close human reading. However, the text of the entire corpus is available for data mining through the HathiTrust Research Center.
Descriptive statistics about the corpus: https://www.hathitrust.org/statistics_visualizations.
Further information about the contents of the corpus: https://www.hathitrust.org/snapshot-of-hathitrust-collection-10-years.
HTRC’s services include web-based algorithms, derived data extracted from the HathiTrust corpus called Extracted Features, the virtual Data Capsule environment for secure computational text analysis, and access to high-performance, data-intensive computing reserved for special projects (including ACS). Learn more about HTRC: https://wiki.htrc.illinois.edu/x/-IF0Aw.
This is the sixth round of ACS. Read about past and current projects: https://wiki.htrc.illinois.edu/x/CADiAQ
Proposals
Complete proposals will include the following:
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The budget for $30,000 in project costs, broken down by calendar year, must be included in spreadsheet form, along with a narrative providing an explanation and justification for the expense and information on how the amounts for individual items were calculated. Supported expenses may include, but are not limited to, course release, summer salary, or support for student research assistants. Facilities and administrative costs (F&A), sometimes referred to as indirect costs or overhead, which includes tuition costs, may not be included in the budget. Cost share is also prohibited. An example budget and justification is available for review here: SCWAReD-ACS-Example-Budget&Justification.
Pre-submission advice and consultations are available by emailing us at acs@hathitrust.org.
Proposals must be sent in a single PDF document, which should be divided into the sections described above. Proposals should be submitted electronically to acs@hathitrust.org.
Timeline
Submission Deadline: December 7, 2020
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Applicants are encouraged to contact acs@hathitrust.org in advance of proposal submission to discuss eligibility, project details, prerequisites, and HTRC support.
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Downloads
Call for ProposalsView file
Sample budget and justification
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