The Collaborative Digitization Program invites museums, archives and
libraries in the Mountain-Plains region to participate in a new IMLS funded
initiative "Sound Model: Collaborative Infrastructure for Digital Audio."
The program will provide an adaptable model for a regional infrastructure by
converting 2000 hours of analog sound recordings held by cultural heritage
institutions.

Funding:
Information about available grant funding is available on the Sound Model
project site at http://www.cdpheritage.org/soundmodel/.   Funding is
available to enable participating institutions to convert up to 70 hours of
analog sound recordings into digital formats.

Proposal Deadline:
Grant proposals are due to CDP no later than April 1, 2005.

Who can participate:
Cultural heritage institutions in the Mountain-Plains region (Arizona,
Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North
Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming).

Please feel free to contact us if you have additional questions about
participating the in the Sound Model initiative.

Jill M. Koelling
Executive Director
Collaborative Digitization Program
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(303) 871-2820
http://www.cdpheritage.org

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