Library and Archives Canada (LAC) announced yesterday the launch of Digitizing Canadian Collections, a one-time funding call offered by the National Heritage Digitization Strategy (NHDS) to digitize documentary heritage material of national significance. Successful projects can receive up to $100,000.
Thanks to a generous gift to NHDS from a private donor, this is a one-time opportunity to provide funds to organizations to digitize, make accessible, and preserve documentary heritage material of national significance.
LAC is the lead institution for administering the NHDS funding call.
Eligible applicants include public and private libraries, archives, historical and genealogical organizations, universities and colleges, archival and library associations, museums and institutions with an archival component, Indigenous organizations, and provincial/territorial and municipal government institutions.
To be eligible, projects must:
- Focus on digitizing analogue documentary heritage collections of national significance, while also addressing access and the preservation of the digitized objects.
- Include content by or about Canadians.
- Follow digitization, preservation and metadata best practices.
- Agree to place metadata in the public domain and make the digitized objects publically accessible, within ethical, cultural and legal constraints.
The deadline to apply is June 12th, 2018. Projects need to be completed by August 31, 2019.
The funding guidelines are on the NHDS website.
