American Anthropological Association Receives Funding for AnthroSource

The American Anthropological Association (AAA) has received a three-year grant of $756,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to launch a digitized portal of anthropological materials, dubbed AnthroSource.

Sounds like it's going to be pretty extensive: "Although published text will be the first accessible data, AnthroSource will eventually provide one-stop access to all media ? sound, video, photographs, collections and databases ? allowing people to tap into a broad range of materials that relate to anthropology from a centralized electronic source which facilitates sophisticated searching and easy retrieval." The first project will be to digitize and make available past and current issues of its 29 print publications. Read the entire press release at http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-12/aaa-
arf121803.php.

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