The People's Network: Sense of Place
MLA is calling for expressions of interest from institutions in
England interested in contributing digital content relating to a
sense of place to the developing Discovery Service of the
People's Network in England.
Place is a popular and compelling topic of interest and the
People's Network Discovery Service aims to provide integrated
access to such materials as part of the wide range of content
and services it interacts with. The Discovery Service will
provide intelligent search mechanisms to enable users to find
resources of immediate relevance to their needs from disparate sources.
Taking part presents many benefits for institutions because
integrated access maximises use of digital materials of
immediate relevance to users, which may not otherwise be readily
available. This approach also optimises the return on investment
made by everyone who produces digital content and enhances
services with added value benefits for data suppliers.
Many projects will already be able to enable access to their
resources, but in addition, small grants of between £2,000 and
£4,000, will be made available to support the necessary work to
enable relevant projects to make data available to the Discovery
Service of the People's Network in England. It is anticipated
that 20 to 30 grants will be available.
For this Sense of Place content contribution call, MLA is
primarily seeking to provide integrated item-level access to
publicly available online digital collections which contain
structured metadata records and related digital objects, such as
documents, images, sound and video.
The closing date for expressions of interest is Tuesday
7th December 2004. Grants will be awarded during
January 2005.
For further information contact Phill Purdy, People's Network
Service Development Officer, at phill.purdy@mla.gov.uk or 020 7273 8284.
Application Information
for Sense of Place (Word 57KB)
Application Information for
Sense of Place (PDF 50KB)
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