CPB and IMLS grant possibility

Submitted for your attention:

CPB AND IMLS CREATE PARTNERSHIP FOR A NATION OF LEARNERS Partnership for a Nation of Learners, a multi-year, $3 million initiative of CPB and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), will provide resources to bring together libraries, public broadcasters, and museums to leverage community assets and create new pathways to learning, discovery, and exploration. The initiative will offer competitive grants to support existing collaborations and to create new ones, encourage professional development, and conduct project evaluations to measure effectiveness. Grant application guidelines and more information about the initiative will be available on October 31, 2004, at http://www.cpb.org/partners/.
[SOURCE: Corporation for Public Broadcasting/Institute of Museum and Library Services Press Release] http://www.cpb.org/programs/pr.php?prn=375

We'll have to see what the guidelines say, but I bet there's an opportunity for collaborations relating to online digital archives. I'd like to see a testbed involving at least three public TV/radio stations partnering with local libraries and museums to facilitate public access to collections, using the metadata standards we've been discussing, and developing the tools for XML data harvesting and a nicely-designed interface. (Oh yes, and a marketing component to make what I just said intelligible).

If you're game, let me know.