If you are applying for a grant (e.g, the NSF DLI or NEH DEL) that requires a Letter of Consultation from an archive, please contact AILLA (at ailla@ailla.utexas.org) at least one month before your internal (university-imposed) submission deadline, and include the following information in your contact email:
- The name of the funder (e.g., NSF/NEH) and the type of grant (e.g., Senior, Fellowship, DDRIG).
- A link to the call for applications for the grant you are applying for.
- The date that you need the letter from AILLA.
- The title of the project.
- Full names of all Principal Investigators (PIs). If you are a graduate student, please indicate that this is your status and include the name of your faculty PI or advisor.
- The language name(s) and ISO 639-3 code(s) for all languages included in the project.
- The types and formats of the data you plan to submit to AILLA (e.g., audio in WAV, video in MP4, transcription/translation in EAF and PDF, etc.). Please review AILLA's Allowed File Formats; we cannot accept any formats not on this list.
- An estimate of the total amount (in GB) of data you plan to submit to AILLA.
- An estimate of the percentage of the data that you anticipate will be restricted (that is, not accessible to logged in AILLA users).
- Your timeline for when you will submit data and metadata to AILLA.
Please do NOT share your proposal with AILLA.
