ABSTRACT
PRIMA’s mission is to explore information resources beyond the traditional purview of libraries and foster activities that encourage the organization and computerization of new data resources, including nonbibliographic meta-information–biographical, geographical, and statistical–and material that is not conventionally published. NEH’s application guidelines include a section dealing with computerized projects that require the applicant to address, in some detail, questions of access, compatibility, and standards–an effort, no doubt, to bring some order to the anarchy that has prevailed in the world of humanities databases. Visual materials are sought by scholars in a wide range of disciplines. Projects such as Le Videodisque Revolution Francaise, a project mounted at the Bibliotheque Nationale to make available engravings produced during the French Revolution promise to be of interest to a number of disciplines.
