The Georgian Papers Programme: Transatlantic Access and Discovery Planning Stage

FAIN: PW-253734-17

Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, VA 23187-8781)
Karin A. Wulf (Project Director: July 2016 to June 2019)

A planning and pilot project to develop metadata standards and evaluate tools for enabling full-text online access to the papers of King George III and other members of the Georgian royal family, dating from 1713 to 1830.

The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture (OI), in association with an international team of collaborators requests support from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) through a Humanities Collections and Reference Resources (HCRR) grant for planning and pilot work in preparation for comprehensive, robust online discovery of the Georgian Papers in the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle.  The Georgian Papers Programme (GPP), is a partnership between the Royal Collection Trust and King's College London, and is joined by primary United States partners the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the College of William & Mary.  In a long-range initiative the GPP will digitize and disseminate the Georgian Papers in overlapping stages of discovery, access and interpretation. This application is for support of the Transatlantic Access and Discovery Planning Stage of the project.