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Research Proposals of the Library 2000 project.

In contrast with the situation only five years later, when the Library 2000 project began in 1990, there was little interest among many sponsors in the subject of digital libraries. We are grateful to the Digital Equipment Corporation, for providing an unrestricted seed grant;to IBM Corporation for a grant of the necessary hardware, and to the Corporation for National Research Initiatives for including our project in a multi-university cooperative research contract sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Proposals:

  • July, 1990, Proposal (available only in PostScript) for a National Technical Report Repository from the Meridian Corporation to the Information Processing Techniques Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. This proposal contains sections from each of the universities, including M.I.T., that participated in the CS-TR project. After considerable discussion and negotiation, in 1992 a revised version of this proposal was accepted, but with the Corporation for National Research Initiatives replacing Meridian Corporation as the prime contractor. (N.B. This postscript file has its pages in reverse order.)

  • November 11, 1992, joint proposal from the Library 2000 group and the M.I.T. Libraries to the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, granted June 30, 1993.

  • June 1, 1993, joint proposal from M.I.T. to the Digital Equipment Corporation, not granted. However, an earlier draft of this proposal resulted in an unrestricted seed grant that allowed serious work on the project to begin.

  • May 11, 1995, no-cost continuation proposal for six months from M.I.T. to the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, granted June 1, 1995.

  • December, 1995, transition proposal recommending that the M.I.T. Library System take over the technology, the preservation of the scanned page images, and the operaton of the delivery services developed in the CS-TR project.

    Formal acknowledgement of sponsorship:

    This work was supported in part by the IBM Corporation, in part by the Digital Equipment Corporation, and in part by the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, using funds from the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the United States Department of Defense under grant MDA972-92-J1029. The grant was funded for the Research on Linking Electronic Libraries of Scientific and Technical Information project of the Computing Systems Technology Office (CSTO).

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