Reference Materials

American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA
The preparation of a descriptive catalog of all feature-length motion pictures produced in the United States from 1971 to 1980.
http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/

Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
The creation of a thirty-million word, online corpus of historical Portuguese texts from the thirteenth century to the present that would allow a variety of linguistic and literary analyses and would also contribute to the development of the Dictionary of the Old Portuguese Language.
http://linguistics.byu.edu/

Columbia University, New York, NY
The preparation of the Encyclopædia Iranica, a reference work on Persian history and civilization from prehistory to the present.
http://www.iranica.com/

Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Outright: $324,011
The completion of an electronic database on transatlantic slave voyages by adding 8,000 new entries, by enhancing an additional 9,000 entries, and by creating a two-tier Web-based resource to serve scholars, students and the general public.

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
The creation of an authoritative common base geographic information system for Chinese history from 221 BCE to 1911 CE, in collaboration with Fudan University of Shanghai. This common base can be used to represent, analyze, and share all Chinese historical data with temporal and spatial attributes.
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis/

Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, CA
The completion of an electronic database containing information on baptisms, marriages, and other vital records held by California missions between 1769 and 1850. The project would also create CD-ROM versions for distribution to libraries and other institutions. (24 months)
http://www.huntington.org/

RIPM Consortium Ltd., Baltimore, MD
The compilation of bibliographic records of periodical literature dealing with music and musical life in Europe and the United States during the first half of the twentieth century.
http://www.ripm.org/

Stanford University, Stanford, CA
The creation of approximately 240 entries to be published in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP), a freely accessible online reference work.
http://plato.stanford.edu/

Texas A & M, College Station, TX
The creation of an image archive of interpretive illustrations in printed editions of Cervantes' Don Quixote from 1620 to the present.
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/cervantes/english/index.html

University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
The transcription and encoding of field notes on the extinct language of the Mutsun, a California Indian tribe, resulting in a text database and a lexical/dictionary database, to be available also in print.
http://linguistics.arizona.edu/

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI
The creation of an integrated information system for Internet access to papyri collections held by major repositories in the United States, which will combine text, catalog records, bibliography, and images of these materials.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/pap/apis/apis.html

University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia, PA
The preparation of an online lexicon of Sumerian, the first documented written language dating from 3300 BC. The lexicon would include brief definitions and links to text corpora that illustrate usage of the terms in ancient texts.
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/psd/

University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, WI
The compilation of the fourth volume of the History of Cartography, entitled Cartography in the European Enlightenment (1650-1800), to be structured as an encyclopedia with approximately 775 entries.
http://www.geography.wisc.edu/histcart/