National Leadership Grants--IMLS

NOTES

Overall goal is to get IMLS to see this set of capabilities as a fundamental piece of the evolving world of distributed metadata and aggregations. Builds on certain premises: substantial work has been done, research has been done and has been tested in a particular environment. It has more general utility. This is about generalizing the tool, and completing the work, distribution, documentation,etc.

Proposal will need to address:

What is generalization? How does the end result plug & play? Where does UIUC IMLS fit in? Even without that, it needs to demonstrate how it works. GEM will be on instance (with or without the IMLS data)

Description of current components and where they are now Where we want to get them by the end Interactions with two repositories

Need match of 50% for more than $250,000 If GEM/IMLS, will have some money If not leave at personnel expenses, some match with UW infrastructure If we keep it under $250,000, only at 1/3 match

Action item: See if Cornell will give back a portion of overhead if we're not doing anything but setting up and administering grant? Diane will ask Tom about this.