[Asis-l] RFP: Advanced Collaborative Support for the HathiTrust Research Center

[Miao Chen]

The HathiTrust Research Center <http://www.hathitrust.org/htrc/> is
seeking *proposals
for **Advanced Collaborative Support (ACS) projects. *ACS is a newly
launched scholarly service at the HTRC offering collaboration between
external scholars and HTRC staff to solve challenging problems related to
HTRC tools and services. By working together with scholars, we facilitate
computational access to HathiTrust Research Center digital tools (HTRC) as
well as the HathiTrust (HT) digital library based on individual scholarly
need. This *Advanced Collaborative Support (ACS)* will drive innovation at
the scholar's digital workbench for enhancing and developing new techniques
for use within the HTRC platform.

The RFP is available online at http://www.hathitrust.org/htrc/acs-rfp

*RFP Schedule:*
RFP Available: October 28, 2014
Proposals Due: 5:00 p.m. January 8, 2015
Award Notification: No later than January 30, 2015
Proposals should be submitted electronically as a single zip file to
*htrc.acs.awards at gmail.com
<htrc.acs.awards at gmail.com>*

*Program Description (see the full RFP
<https://wiki.htrc.illinois.edu/download/attachments/22839348/HTRC_ACS_RFP.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1414460470108&api=v2>*
 *for more detail):*

The *HathiTrust (HT)* is a large digitized-text corpus (> 10 million
volumes) of keen interest to researchers working in a wide range of
scholarly disciplines.

The *HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC)* is a collaborative research center
launched jointly by Indiana University and the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, along with the *HathiTrust Digital Library (HT)* to help
meet the technical challenges that researchers face when dealing with
massive amounts of digital text.

The *HTRC Advanced Collaboration Support Group (ACS)* engages with users
directly on a one-on-one basis over extended period of time lasting from
weeks to months. The ACS Group, selected from the membership of the HTRC
user community, pairs the ACS awardee with expert staff members to work
collaboratively on challenging problems.

Respondents are urged to contact *htrc.acs.awards at gmail.com
<htrc.acs.awards at gmail.com>*, in advance of proposal submission to discuss
eligibility, project details, prerequisites, and HTRC support. We look
forward to a wide-array of proposals for our inaugural ACS projects
supported by funding from the *HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC)*.

Sincerely,

The HathiTrust Research Center Executive Committee:

J. Stephen Downie, Graduate School of Library and Information Science,
University of Illinois and Co-Director HTRC
Beth Plale, School of Informatics and Computing and Data to Insight Center,
Indiana University and Co-Director HTRC
Beth Namachchivaya, Associate University Librarian for Information
Technology Planning and Policy and Associate Dean of Libraries, University
of Illinois
Robert H. McDonald, Associate Dean for Library Technologies, Indiana
University
John Unsworth, Vice-Provost, University Librarian and CIO, Brandeis
University
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