To date, the Chicago Imagebase project has received approximately $100,000 in funding and has a request to the National Endowment for the Humanities of approximately $400,000 pending. The funding history is as follows:
Received:
Fall, 1995
University of Illinois Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs Advanced
Learning Technologies in Higher Education Grant Shared with the Art History
Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana To digitize and upload images
for class use. Total Funding = $40,000.
Winter, 1997
University of Illinois Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs Advanced
Learning Technologies in Higher Education Grant Included faculty from Geography
Program, Urban Planning Program, and Art History To create/adapt a Geographic
Information System interface to index images of the built environment geographically.
Total Funding = $56,000.
Spring, 1997
Title: Interactive and Engaged Learning of History through Architecture. Funded
by NEH Education Development and Demonstration Grant; May, 1997. Applicant =
Chicago Teacher=s Center. City Design Center was a collaborating partner. Training
of middle school teachers to use the Web to teach students about the built environment.
Web-site is located at http://www.math.uic.edu/~rjacot/archistory/. Total Grant
= $180,000. City Design Center portion = $9,500.
Pending:
Summer, 1997 (Decision by April, 1998)
Title: The Chicago Metropolitan Infobase Project National Endowment for the
Humanities Division of Preservation and Access Research and Demonstration grant
to create geographically-based indexing system Total Budget = $491,716 Total
Request = $393,962.