The continued creation of a union catalog of all books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed before 1877 in North America. This phase of the project would create 7,650 detailed records for imprints from the period 1801 through 1820.

The cataloging and digitization of 600 separately published engravings and 2,700 engravings in gift books and literary annuals published from the 1820s through the 1870s.

The appraisal, arrangement, and description of approximately 1,200 linear feet of records, and the digitization of 10,000 textual documents, 500 images, and 100 hours of audio recordings on the history of the American Jewish Congress.

The digital imaging of 11,322 ethnographic artifacts and associated data documenting the cultural history of the Philippines. Digital images and catalog information would be available in an online database.

The production and enhancement of finding aids for 178 manuscript collections comprising 2,165 linear feet pertaining to American intellectual and cultural history from the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries.

Arranging and describing the contents of three geographically dispersed archives that focus on archaeological excavations and the history of archaeology in the Middle East from 1871 to the present, as well as creating finding aids and mounting digitized materials on the Internet.

The arrangement and description of 800 feet of company records pertaining to mining operations, along with the preservation of 5,000 maps and the selected digitization of significant collection items.

Multi-spectral imaging of 400 illegible, or legibly problematic papyri from collections at the University of Michigan; University of California, Berkeley; and Columbia University. The resulting images would be disseminated via the Web-based Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS).

Creation of a 200-million word historical corpus of American English, covering a wide range of genres and texts dating from the 1800s through the early 2000s. The annotated texts and user interface would facilitate study of linguistic and stylistic change.

A research and development project to produce software that would allow searching of Sanskrit manuscripts and their integration in a digital library. The project would create a prototype based on the “Mahabharata” and the “Bhagavata Purana.”

Preparation of the “Encyclopædia Iranica,” a multi-disciplinary reference work and research tool on Iranian history and civilization from prehistory to the present.

Preparation of a lexical database, an etymological dictionary, and a collaborative Web site for research on the Mon-Khmer languages, which include the national languages of Vietnam and Cambodia as well as communities in India, China, Burma, Malaysia, Laos, and Thailand.

The digitization of 15,000 images of works of art, primarily early American portraits photographed 1922-67 in homes and public institutions throughout the United States.

Expansion of a Chinese biographical database of prominent political and cultural figures since ancient times. To expedite the incorporation of biographical data, the project would combine human editing with automated programs for extracting information from relevant sources.

The development of a comprehensive digital archive and Web site that will preserve and render accessible primary sources related to the social and cultural history of women during the Qajar dynasty (1785-1925) in Iran.

A research and development project to design an online ontology for the field of philosophy and to develop tools for managing metacontent in a dynamic reference work.

The preservation, annotation, and improved access to a digital video collection of approximately 700 hours of oral history interviews with Yiddish speakers in Eastern Europe.

The digitization of 29 unique audio collections created on lacquer and aluminum discs and fragile reel-to-reel tape that document Native American, African American, and Anglo American oral traditions, as well as those of other immigrant populations in the United States.

The arrangement and description of one million items, with full cataloging of 1,200 monographs, 600 serials, and 1,100 pamphlets, from the Tamiment Library's collection on the history of labor and radicalism in the United States; 250 Internet-accessible Encoded Archival Description finding aids would also be developed linked to collection-level MARC records.

The final phase of a four-year project to catalog and preserve 36,000 American pamphlets, including speeches, political tracts, annual reports, biographical sketches, catalogs, and sermons dating from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The arrangement, description, and preservation of 56 manuscript collections, comprising 605 linear feet, focusing on families from the Chicago area in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and documenting a wide array of social and cultural history themes.

The digitization, encoding, and online delivery of the Chicago Foreign Language Press Survey, a microfilm resource containing translations of selected articles from Chicago's immigrant and ethnic press from the 1860s to the 1930s.

Continuing editorial work to compile 25,000 annotated bibliographic records documenting music and musical life in Europe and the Americas during the twentieth century and integrate them with existing print and searchable Internet databases.

The cataloging, digital reformatting, Internet streaming, and creation of Encoded Archival Description finding aids for 1,340 audio recordings of readings by 425 notable poets.

The arrangement and description of the papers of architect and designer Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) and the creation of an online digital resource that integrates sources on Breuer from several cultural repositories.

The completion of cataloging and digitization of 132,720 archaeological artifacts from areas along Mulberry Row, occupied from 1804 to 1858 by enslaved African Americans at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello Plantation, and making the data freely available on the Internet.

Digitization of lexical texts (bilingual Sumerian-Akkadian dictionaries, synonym lists, and sign lists) found in the library of the Assyrian king Assurbanipal (668-630 B.C.). The project would make available cataloging information and images of all cuneiform tablets coupled with transliterations and translations of the texts.

A research and development project to incorporate seventeen historical and minority language scripts into the Unicode standard for character representation.

Continuing work on the comprehensive Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings (1900-1950) that would add 30,000 additional entries to the searchable electronic database freely available on the Internet.

The digitization of audio recordings and edited transcriptions of course lectures given by philosopher Leo Strauss.

A research and development project to create a Web-based image markup tool, the Text-Image Linking Environment, which scholars, curators, and editors can use to generate semi-automated links between images and text in digital archives.

The production and upgrading of finding aids and catalog records for improved access to 426 manuscript collections, amounting to 593 linear feet, dealing with early American history.

The digitization of 800 codices, documents, and fragments constituting the entirety of medieval and Renaissance primary sources held by the university's Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

The digitization of 10,000 rare or unique late 19th- and early 20th-century musical scores and books for online access through the university's digital repository, the rehousing of original materials, and the production of preservation photocopies.

The arrangement and description and the creation of finding aids for 275 linear feet of the papers of American attorney and civil liberties advocate Morris Leopold Ernst (1888-1976).

Continued development of the multi-volume reference work, the “History of Cartography,” with especial attention to Volume Four, “Cartography in the European Enlightenment.”

Lexicographical work to complete all entries of the "Dictionary of American Regional English" (DARE), which documents geographical differences in the vocabulary, pronunciation, and morphology of American English.

Development of the Encyclopedia Virginia, an online reference work of comprehensive, peer reviewed, and digitally born content that focuses on Virginia's people, history, government, economy, and culture.

The preparation of a grammar, recordings, a lexicon, texts, an orthography, and a Web site on Chimiini, an endangered Bantu language formerly spoken in Somalia.

The preparation of a multilingual dictionary of the Nahuatl language.

Digital archiving of endangered Mexican and South American linguistic materials to be made accessible by the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America.