The board will conduct a competition among centers for computing in the humanities. Centers will apply for the full three years of the grant. The current database is updated regularly, and this project would commit to maintaining updates on a regular basis. At Indiana University, this project currently benefits from an institution-wide commitment to digital and multimedia projects. UMI currently does not and historically did not collect all dissertations.
Coverage is needed for older dissertations and beyond North American universities.
The project supports both research and teaching on an international scale and could also expand collection and payment of royalties to the authors. Negotiations are currently underway to expand collaboration with organizations in other parts of the world. Principal investigator would be Prof. Thomas Mathiesen. Formal application will be submitted jointly by the American Musicological Society and Indiana University. The objectives of this project are to establish a database on the Internet which would function as a gateway for networked scholarly resources in the Humanities.