Call for Proposals: Digitisation Grants

Deadline Date: September 30, 2024

 Donor Name: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

 Grant Size: $1000 to $10,000

https://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/grants-and-fellowships/digitisation-grants

The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (PMC) is offering grants to support the digitisation of material concerned with British art or architectural history and make it open access to users online.

The Paul Mellon Centre (PMC) is an educational charity that champions new ways of understanding British art history and culture. Through all areas of their work, including their Grants & Fellowships programme, they promote activities that enhance and expand knowledge of British art and architecture. As an organisation, they pledge themselves to ensuring that the histories of British art are enriched and made more relevant to a broader range of people in the future. The inclusion of voices, narratives and experiences that have been marginalised or excluded in the past will have a transformational impact on the future of the Centre and upon British art studies. Accordingly, PMC particularly welcomes applications from those who are under-represented within the academic field of the humanities in the UK.

Scope

• Digitisation Grants are specifically designed to help organisations make materials from their collections freely available for users online via digital methods. The grant may be used towards the practical costs of in-house digitisation (e.g. equipment and software), hiring an external digitisation service and personnel costs for cataloguing or research purposes.
• Materials to be digitised could include:
  • photographic collections
  • archival collections of letters, index cards, notes etc.
  • bound volumes (e.g. diaries, magazines, newspapers, albums, sketchbooks, published books etc.)
  • objects, paintings or assets
  • publications
• This grant is not designed to support large-scale digitisation or online cataloguing projects; please see their Digital Project Grant if your project exceeds the scope of this award.
• Please note that organisations can only apply for this award to digitise items in their own collections.

Funding Information

• Digitisation Grants are offered up to a maximum of £5,000.

Eligibility Criteria

• The funding programme supports research, educational activities and the dissemination of knowledge in the fields of British art and architectural history, from the medieval period to the present day and across the spectrum of relevant geographical and cultural contexts. The remit is broadly defined and adapts as the interests of those working in their field change. It encompasses art made in Britain or by British artists, but is not solely limited to art made, or artists from, within the geographical boundaries of the British Isles. Rather they understand the field of British art studies to encompass a broad range of subjects and topics related to the artistic and cultural histories of Britain, past and present.
• They do not offer grants and fellowships in field archaeology, the current practice of architecture or the performing arts. Applications in the fields of photography, performance, film and digital media will need to demonstrate their relevance to British art studies.
• Applications are open to international as well as UK organisations.

For more information, visit PMC.