{"id":13394,"date":"2016-08-05T17:26:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T16:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=13394"},"modified":"2016-08-05T17:26:07","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T16:26:07","slug":"twas-uk-digitisation-grant-2016-open-till-31-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=13394","title":{"rendered":"TWA\u2019s UK \u2018Digitisation Grant\u2019 2016: Open till 31 August"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The Towns Web Archiving (TWA) Digitisation Grant 2016, to be used for most UK-based digitisation projects and with applications score it across primary areas of Heritage need and Social and Research impacts, is now open and accepting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.townswebarchiving.com\/twa-digitisation-grant\/how-to-apply\/\">applications<\/a> with a closing date of 31 August.<\/h3>\n<p>TWA writes:<\/p>\n<p>We know that limited funding for cultural heritage digitisation projects is one of the primary barriers that UK heritage institutions face when attempting to digitise and digitally preserve their collections.<\/p>\n<p>There are two grants available:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Primary Digitisation Grant \u00a34000<\/li>\n<li>Secondary Digitisation Grant \u00a31000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Primary Grant will be awarded to the winning institution\/organisation as selected by our judging panel (see below for details of judging process), whilst the Secondary Grant will be awarded to the closest \u2018runner up\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>TWA Grant funding can be used for any UK-based digitisation project, excluding digitising 3D and audio-visual materials. For full details of how the funding may be used read our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.townswebarchiving.com\/twa-digitisation-grant\/what-we-fund\/\">What we fund<\/a> guide.<\/p>\n<p>The Grant funding will be provided in the form of TownsWeb Archiving services: including digitisation, metadata transcription, optical character recognition, website design and\/or digital asset management software.<\/p>\n<p>How the funding is allocated between these services is entirely up to the applicant, however the project must include digitisation of some sort to be eligible.<\/p>\n<p>The TWA Digitisation Grant is open to applications from all UK:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Public &amp; private Archives<\/li>\n<li>Business\/corporate Archives<\/li>\n<li>Public &amp; private Libraries<\/li>\n<li>Museums<\/li>\n<li>Galleries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For full details of who is and isn\u2019t eligible to apply take a look at our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.townswebarchiving.com\/twa-digitisation-grant\/who-is-eligible\/\">Who is eligible<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.townswebarchiving.com\/twa-digitisation-grant\/judging-panel\/\">judging panel<\/a> will assess each application and score it across three primary areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Heritage need<\/li>\n<li>Social impact<\/li>\n<li>Research impact<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Further guidance on what the judges are looking at across each of these areas is provided within the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.townswebarchiving.com\/twa-digitisation-grant\/how-to-apply\/\">Grant Application Form<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All applications must be submitted by 31st August 2016 and winners will be announced on 19th September.<\/p>\n<p>Find out how to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.townswebarchiving.com\/twa-digitisation-grant\/\">apply and download<\/a> our Grant application form<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Towns Web Archiving (TWA) Digitisation Grant 2016, to be used for most UK-based digitisation projects and with applications score it across primary areas of Heritage need and Social and Research impacts, is now open and accepting applications with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=13394\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13399,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13394\/revisions\/13399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}