Training Iraqi Librarians and Educators by Faculty from Simmons College, UCLA, and Harvard University

Recipient: Cloonan, Michele V (Boston, MA 02115-5898 USA) in affiliation with Simmons College (Boston, MA 02115 USA)

Goal: Advanced education and training of 32 Iraqi librarians and archivists in current library, archival, and information sciences; and upgrading their professional knowledge and skills.

Grant: 180883 / PI-50024-06,   Category: Library Science, Archival Management, and Conservation,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Year Awarded: 2006

Accelerated Archaeological Conservation Training (ACCT)

Recipient: Stein, Gil J (Chicago, IL 60637 USA) in affiliation with University of Chicago

Goal: The creation of a pilot project for a two-phase accelerated archaeological conservation education and training program for Iraqi nationals that would include a four-month preparatory phase and six-month intensive training program for four Iraqi nationals.

Grant: 180884 / PI-50025-06,   Category: Archival Management and Conservation,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Year Awarded: 2006

The Iraqi Jewish Archive

Recipient: Sink, Robert (New York, NY 10011 USA) in affiliation with Center for Jewish History

Goal: The creation of an item-level collection assessment and inventory database of books and documents in Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, and Arabic that provide evidence of the history and culture of the Jewish community in Iraq since 762 BCE. A sample of the variety of paper-based materials in the archives would be conserved as a testbed for a future phase of the project.

Description: The Center for Jewish History is seeking funding for a project to ensure the preservation and accessibility of the recently discovered Iraqi Jewish Archive. With more than 500,000 volumes and 100 million documents and artifacts on its campus and access to myriad catalog entries related to archives of the Jewish community, the Center for Jewish History is well poised to oversee the following activities: Creation of an inventory database to document the Archive’s contents; Photograph digitally title pages so that the items can be catalogued; Assure a basic item level conservation assessment by experts in the field; and preserve a small number of items in the archive to demonstrate the feasibility of conserving the entire archive.

Grant: 179382 / PI-50022-06,   Category: History of Religion,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Year Awarded: 2006

Iraq ReCollection: A Proposal for Preserving Iraq's Cultural Heritage

Recipient: Okerson, Ann G (New Haven, CT 06511 USA) in affiliation with Yale University (New Haven, CT 06520 USA)

Goal: Digitizing the complete runs of nine journals (104,590 pages) in humanities disciplines published in Arabic from 1911 to the present that document the prehistory, history, and culture of Iraq; creating catalog records for these serials; developing an open-archives searchable database; and making these materials available on the World Wide Web.

Description: Project Iraq ReCollection will digitize a select group of scholarly Iraqi journals held by Yale and the University of Pennsylvania including the complete runs of 9 journals published in Arabic to create an electronic archive of these digitized files that permits retrieval and display via the Internet, and integration into other existing electronic systems, so that scholars in Iraq and around the world can easily gain access to this important segment of Iraq's print heritage. The small project will also develop an approach and best practices for scanning Arabic and Middle-East language-based humanistic content in order to facilitate access to scarcely held and disappearing materials for a key world region.

Grant: 180891 / PI-50027-06,   Category: Humanities,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Year Awarded: 2006

Rescuing Iraqi Archaeological Reports

Recipient: Gibson, McGuire (Chicago, IL 60637 USA) in affiliation with American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (Chicago, IL 60615 USA)

Goal: The preparation of three monographs and several articles in English and Arabic based on reports and notes from unpublished excavations and surveys carried out in Iraq during the past 30 years.

Description: In this project three Iraqi and three American archeologists will cooperate to produce monographs and articles in Arabic and English based on important excavations and surveys carried out by the Iraqi participants over the past forty years. These publications will recreate, in great part, manuscripts lost in the looting of the editorial offices of the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities in April 2003.

Grant: 180892 / PI-50028-06,   Category: Archaeology,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Year Awarded: 2006

Remote Sensing and GIS Training and Research for Iraqi Archaeologists

Recipient: Stone, Elizabeth C (Stony Brook, NY 11794-4364 USA) in affiliation with SUNY Research Foundation, Stony Brook (Stony Brook, NY 11794-0001 USA)

Goal: An intensive training program for two faculty members each from Baghdad and Mosul Universities and two members of the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage in remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS).

Description: This project focuses on a four-month training program in Remote Sensing and GIS for professional Iraqi archaeologists drawn from the State Board of Antiquities and Baghdad and Mosul Universities. The course will focus on the utility of these techniques for research, site protection and site management. By the end of the program, the faculty will have the skills to teach these materials on their return to Iraq. Coincident with the training program, we will survey archaeological sites in the key Nippur, Uruk and Eridu survey areas using recent high resolution Digital Globe imagery for evidence of site damage from looting and development, recording new sites, ancient landscape features and intra-site details.

Grant: 179376 / PI-50019-05,   Category: Archaeology,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Year Awarded: 2005

Archaeological Field Data from UC Berkeley Expedition to Nineveh: 1987, 1989, 1990

Recipient: Wilkinson, Eleanor Barbanes (Berkeley, CA 94720 England) in affiliation with University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA 94720 USA)

Goal: The creation of a digital database of field documentation from the university's archaeological survey and selected excavations at the ancient Mesopotamian city of Nineveh (7th millennium into 1st millennium BCE) that were conducted in 1987, 1989, and 1990.

Grant: 179381 / PI-50021-05,   Category: Archaeology,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Year Awarded: 2005

Educating Iraqi Librarians and Archivists

Recipient: Cloonan, Michele V (Boston, MA 02115-5898 USA) in affiliation with Simmons College (Boston, MA 02115 USA)

Goal: An education and training program that will enhance the professional knowledge and skills of Iraqi librarians and archivists.

Grant: 171018 / PI-50006-04,   Category: Library Science, Archival Management, and Conservation,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Year Awarded: 2004

Integrated System for Cultural Heritage Inventory and Assesment in Iraq

Recipient: Palumbo, Gaetano (Paris, 75016 France) in affiliation with World Monuments Fund (New York, NY 10021 USA)

Goal: A cultural heritage inventory of Iraqi archaeological and historic sites that would include an integrated database, a Geographic Information System (GIS), and a Geographic Positioning System (GPS) for documenting site information and locations.

Grant: 171019 / PI-50007-04,   Category: Archival Management and Conservation,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Year Awarded: 2004

Diyala Project

Recipient: Reichel, Clemens D (Toronto, ON Canada) in affiliation with University of Chicago (Chicago, IL 60637 USA)

Goal: The creation of a publicly accessible virtual archive of archaeological data on ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) that incorporates a relational, expandable database that would be mounted on an existing Web site at the Oriental Institute. The initial component focuses on four major sites in the Diyala Region northeast of Baghdad.

Grant: 171627 / PI-50008-04,   Category: Archaeology,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Year Awarded: 2004

Reconciling the Past: A Catalog of Scattered Collections

Recipient: Pestle, William J (Chicago, IL 60605 USA) in affiliation with Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago, IL 60605-2496 USA)

Goal: The cataloging of material culture collections excavated from 1923 to 1933 at the ancient Mesopotamian city of Kish (3100 to 2250 BCE).

Grant: 174192 / PI-50014-04,   Category: Archaeology,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Year Awarded: 2004

The Intellectual Heritage of Ancient Mesopotamia: The Baghdad Corpus of Lexical Texts

Recipient: Veldhuis, Nicolaas Christiaan (Berkeley, CA 94720-1040 USA) in affiliation with University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA 94720 USA)

Goal: The preparation of an online catalog of cuneiform lexical texts housed at the National Museum in Iraq. Images of the tablets, accompanied by transcriptions, will be available on a Web site at the museum and will be integrated into a larger database of cuneiform materials, the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI).

Grant: 168401 / PI-50005-04,   Category: Ancient Languages,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Year Awarded: 2004

Online Preservation Tutorial in Arabic

Recipient: Dean, John F (Ithaca, NY 14853 USA) in affiliation with Cornell University

Goal: The creation of a preservation tutorial in Arabic on the treatment and care of books, manuscripts, image and recorded sound collections, papyrus, and clay tablets that would be made available on the Internet and as a CD-ROM for distribution in Iraq.

Grant: 168291 / PI-50003-04,   Category: Archival Management and Conservation,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Year Awarded: 2004

A Cultural Heritage Initiative for Ancient Iraq

Recipient: Englund, Robert Keith (Los Angeles, CA 90095-1511 USA) in affiliation with University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA)

Goal: The development of an online catalog of cuneiform tablets at the Iraq National Museum that documents Mesopotamian civilization from 3300 B.C. until the Christian era.

Grant: 168205 / PI-50001-04,   Category: Near Eastern Languages,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Year Awarded: 2004