[Nhcoll-l] funding digitization of federal collections?

[Catherine Early (she/her)]

Hi all,

This is a question for folks who deal with US collections. I have a vague
understanding that NSF will not award funds to curate "federal
collections," including collections of specimens from federal lands that
are held in non-federal institutions (whether on permanent loan, as a
repository, or fully accessioned) because this is considered
"double-dipping." Is this accurate? Does it apply to specimens from ANY
federal lands or only on certain federal lands, e.g. does it apply to those
managed by the National Park Service but not those managed by the US
Department of Agriculture? And how strict is it? For example, if I receive
funding to digitize a collection of 20,000 specimens and as we start
digitizing, we realize that 200 of them were collected from federal lands,
can we not digitize those 200 even though they're in the collection for
which we received funding to digitize? I've reached out to an NSF program
officer for clarification but figured it was worth crowd-sourcing the
answer, too. Thanks!

Best,
Catherine


Catherine M. Early, PhD

*she/her/hers*

Barbara Brown Chair of Ornithology

cearly at smm.org

https://catherineearly.wixsite.com/home




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