The U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) supports the preservation of cultural sites, cultural objects, and types of traditional cultural expression in additional than 100 growing nations all over the world. The AFCP supports a wide range of initiatives to protect cultural heritage, such as the restoration of historic buildings, archaeological website preservation, evaluation and conservation of museum collections, improved storage circumstances for archives and manuscripts, and the documentation of vanishing indigenous languages.
Along comparable strains, the Nationwide Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) in 2002 remarked that present library and curatorial workers are rarely involved in digitization to any important degree, besides in digital photography and metadata creation.
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From the evaluation, the cultural heritage resources out there in a number of the studied institutions embody: songs, crafts, moral, historic sites, artifacts, works of arts and cultural, archaeological sites, photographic slides, folklore, and pictures from books.
The U.S. Embassy Morocco and the Cultural Heritage Center of the Department of State’s Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs are happy to announce the call for proposals for the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) 2017 Competitors.