Funding is distributed in the form of challenge grants.
Sponsoring departments for individual projects will be expected to contribute resources to the projects, and to commit to on-going support to insure that content made available under the program will continue to be available to the Harvard community after the end of the LDI project. The purpose of the LDI is to move beyond electronic bibliography to networked digital collections. To be eligible, projects must make available to the Harvard community digital resources not previously available in a networked digital format. Exceptions to these criteria may be made for compelling projects, particularly projects addressing strategic service improvements, such as those listed in the section below on Round 4 Desiderata. It is important to note that the focus of the LDI grants program is on providing coherent, integrated access to digital collections in the University.