Federating Repositories of Accessible Materials for Higher Education
January 2019. A two-year Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to seven universities to reduce duplication of remediation efforts for accessible materials. Participants include George Mason University, Texas A&M University, the University of Illinois, Northern Arizona University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vanderbilt University.
The pilot also depends on HathiTrust, Bookshare, and The Internet Archive—three large digital repositories, each of which already provides service to users with print disabilities—to provide a federated network of storage and delivery and to draw on their individual networks of social commitment and technical expertise.
The grant will fund the creation of library infrastructure at UVA called EMMA (Educational Materials Made Accessible) which will handle authentication, search, selection, and download, while also providing an upload path for texts produced or remediated on the campuses of the seven participating universities. [Source: UVA press-release]