TBA (last known deadline was August 15, 2012)
This program seeks to enhance and expand the national resource of digital data documenting existing vouchered biological and paleontological collections and to advance scientific knowledge by improving access to digitized information (including images) residing in vouchered scientific collections across the United States.
Proposals are sought at two levels:
Thematic Collections Network (TCN): Proposals for two-to-four year awards to digitize existing specimens, creating a new collection based on a particular research theme.
Partners to Existing Networks (PENs):
Proposals to partner with and further the efforts of ongoing NSF-funded TCNs; the new partners must increase the number of specimens digitized in the ongoing project.
The number of proposals UW Madison may submit is limited to one as the lead organization on a TCN proposal; TCN proposals are subject to an internal competition administered by the Graduate School. There is no limit to the number of PEN proposals.