| PW-50603-10 | Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | Society of Architectural Historians (NFP) | Buildings of the United States Online | 5/1/2010 - 12/31/2012 | $262,881.00 | Pauline | A. | Saliga | | | | Society of Architectural Historians (NFP) | Chicago | IL | 60610-2144 | USA | 2010 | Architecture | Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | Preservation and Access | 65119 | 197762 | 65119 | 197762 | A pilot project to develop the infrastructure for Buildings of the United States, an online database on architectural history.
BUS, an award-winning publication series sponsored by SAH, has a mission to record & interpret all American architecture on a state-by-state basis. SAH has published 12 authoritative, peer-reviewed print volumes. SAH now plans to partner with University of Virginia Press to publish BUS ONLINE, the first peer-reviewed, comprehensive, robust online database of American architecture. BUS ONLINE will be the foundation for two web sites: (1) BUS-H, an open access, free public web site that will present the histories of up to 150 buildings from each state in the US; and (2) BUS-SE, a subscription based web site containing the thousands of building entries in the BUS database that will be developed for both the general public and scholars alike. This is a planning grant request to enable SAH and UVaP to create the editorial, technical, legal, and financial framework to launch and sustain BUS ONLINE as an unprecedented nationally-focused database of the American built environment. |