Documenting Global Voices
Program update: we've changed our name!
Documenting Global Voices is now the Modern Endangered Archives Program.
A new Call for Applications will open on September 30, 2019 under our new name. Please visit the Modern Endangered Archives Program website to learn more and stay up to date by joining our mailing list.
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The 2018-19 call for applications is now closed. Visit the new Modern Endangered Archives Program How to Apply web page for details about our upcoming call.
Application Process
The forms below will be updated for the next round of applications in December 2019. The proposal review process will include two steps. During the first step, applicants will submit a preliminary proposal. The authors of the most promising proposals will be invited to develop full proposals.
Grant Agreement Template (Terms and Conditions)
Full Application [Due May 15 by Invitation Only]
- Application Cover Letter (Must be included with Full Proposal)
- Referee Report (All applications must include 2 Referee Reports to be submitted by the referee to dgv@library.ucla.edu by May 31st, 2019)
- Copy the Full Proposal in Google Docs
- Download the Full Proposal
Grant of Permissions Form
- DGV Grant of Permission form - institutions (Google Docs)
- DGV Grant of Permission form – individuals (Google Docs)
Guidelines for Applicants
- Download the guidelines in *.doc format:
- or PDF format:
Preliminary Proposal Application Materials
- Download the preliminary application in *.doc format:
Who can apply?
Organizations that hold at-risk materials, as well as faculty, researchers, and cultural heritage specialists affiliated with an institution.
Eligible institutions:
- Grants must be administered by not-for-profit organizations in the field of education, research or archival/library management.
Eligible applicants:
- Any accredited member of teaching or research faculty, and any registered post-graduate researcher, at a university or similar higher education institution.
- Archivists and librarians with responsibilities for special collections in archives, a national or research library, or a similar institution.
What are the criteria?
Documenting Global Voices will support the evaluation of collections for digitization and/or curation, the digitization of materials, and projects to collect, convert and describe existing digital assets.
Documenting Global Voices will solicit and accept proposals according to the following scope:
- Time Period: Materials should date from 19th century to the present.
- Content: Materials should document history, society, culture, and politics, with an emphasis on social justice, human rights, and under-documented communities.
- Geographical Focus: Materials from regions outside North America and Europe with limited resources for archival preservation are preferred, particularly, but not limited to, Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America, the Middle East, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia.
- Format: Materials should be unique or rare, which may be represented in formats such as handwritten material, audio and video materials, photographs, and ephemera.
Proposals will be evaluated by an international panel of scholars using the following criteria:
- Urgency of the project, as reflected, for example, by the timeliness of the content and vulnerability of the materials
- Scholarly significance of the materials proposed
- Viability of online publication based on the grantees’ rights and privacy analysis
- Project feasibility according to timeframe and resources requested, including physical space and personnel to conduct the activities proposed
- Expertise and experience of the applicants
- If the grant applicant is not the owning repository of the materials, there must be a letter of support from the owning repository
- Commitment and planning within the proposed project to create metadata in English and the language of the culture in which the materials were created
How large are the grants?
Documenting Global Voices will offer two types of grant funding:
- Planning grants of up to $15,000 to evaluate collections for digitization and/or curation.
- Project grants of up to $50,000 for up to 2 years to digitize or systematize already-digital assets, describe, and deliver digital assets and metadata to the UCLA Library.
Contact
Who can I contact with questions?
Contact the Documenting Global Voices staff at: dgv@library.ucla.edu
Alternative Funding
To be eligible for a Documenting Global Voices grant, the materials should date from 19th century to the present. If you have at-risk materials that are older and relate to a ‘pre-modern' period of a society's history, consider applying for an Endangered Archives Programme (EAP) grant from the British Library. Learn more.
Documenting Global Voices is made possible with the generous support of the Arcadia Fund.
