Call for Applications: CRAFT Digital Research Archive Grants

Announcing grants for the creation of digital archives for research in the social sciences, humanities and arts. The Kule Institute for Advanced Study, the Digital Initiatives unit of the Library, and the Arts Resource Centre are partnering to support small CRAfT grants with a value of $10,000-15,000. Deadline for applications is December 2nd, 2018.

15 October 2018

CRAfT (Create Research Archives for Tomorrow) grants are for UAlberta faculty who want to gather, digitize, enrich, document and deposit an innovative archive that will support research.

The grant includes:
  • Up to $5,000 in cash for support of the project,
  • Up to $5,000 in in-kind support from the Library, and
  • Up to $5,000 in in-kind computing support from ARC for projects based in the Faculty of Arts.
These grants can be used to digitize, describe, enrich and/or archive the records of an important local organization, or to prepare samples for artists, or to develop a web archive around a contemporary issue. See application detail here.