Founding Fathers Advisory Committee Meeting December 13, 2010 National Archives Building Washington, DC 9/8/20151FFAC
Briefing on Five Founding Fathers Editorial Projects George Washington John Adams Thomas Jefferson James Madison Benjamin Franklin 9/8/20152FFAC
Summary Information for 5 Projects Volumes published: containing c. 115,000 documents Volumes to be published: to contain c. 60,000 documents Volumes in process: 19 Production pace: 1 volume/12 months to 1 volume/24 months 9/8/20153FFAC
Summary Information for 5 Projects Annual 5-Project Total Budget - $4.5 M (Budgets vary from $500K-930K per project) NHPRC annual support - $885,000 (19%) Award Range (FY2011): $146,000 - $215,000 NHPRC Support to Completion (at current rate of support) - $12 M Parent Institutions – UVA, Mass. Historical Society, Princeton, Yale/Amer. Philos. Society 9/8/20154FFAC
Summary Information for 5 Projects Publishers – Presses at University of Virginia, Princeton, Harvard, and Yale Number of Project Staff - range of 6-10 FTEs Project work flow – varies among projects, depending on staffing, budget, editorial tasks Completion Dates - range from 2021 to /8/2015FFAC5
Editorial Project Goals & Objectives Specific Goals are a part of each NHPRC grant award (12 month intervals) NHPRC requires six month progress reports from every grantee NHPRC staff submit written reports to Commission on each project’s progress against goals Commission considers project performance in evaluating requests for new funding 9/8/2015FFAC6
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NHPRC Special Initiatives re. Founders “Early Access” Pilot Project ($250,000) Founders Online – Published Volumes ($2 Million) Founders Online – Unpublished Transcripts ($2.5 Million) 9/8/2015FFAC8
“Early Access” Pilot Project Overall Goal - to undertake “proof of concept” project. Could significant transcription work be carried out successfully independent of project staff? Milestone - to create sufficiently enhanced versions of 5,000 unpublished transcripts for online access Award made to Documents Compass in /8/2015FFAC9
“Early Access” Pilot Project Pilot Participants – Adams & Madison projects Documents Compass converted all items to standard XML format for online access Documents Compass improved transcripts via a verification process 10/ ,065 documents made available by UVA Press in a free “Early Access” section of Rotunda website 9/8/2015FFAC10
Founders Online Initiative Goals - Phase 1 - Published materials (242 vols) freely available online by 2013 (Franklin Papers participation pending) Phase 2 - Unpublished transcripts freely available online available via same resource Phase 3 - Ongoing maintenance of this new resource as new volumes emerge and transcripts are completed and annotated 9/8/2015FFAC11
Founders Online - Published Volumes Goal – provide free online access to Founders documents & associated annotations National Archives & University of Virginia Press signed cooperative agreement 10/2010 Beta Website available 10/2011 Full search features & complete site content by 9/2013 Cost: $2,000,000 in NHPRC directed funds 9/8/2015FFAC12
Founders Online - Unpublished Transcripts Goal – Provide free online access to pre- publication versions of Founders documents 5 Founders projects have completed preliminary transcripts for c. 60,000 items Must enhance transcripts via further verification & prepare them for online searching Editorial annotations are not included 9/8/2015FFAC13
Founders Online – Unpublished Transcripts Cost: $2,500,000 in NHPRC directed funds Agreement(s) forthcoming in /8/2015FFAC14