University of Oklahoma (Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, University of Oklahoma)

The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History will improve stewardship of its Native American Languages Collection by creating a new digital infrastructure. The museum is designated as the museum of natural history for the state of Oklahoma and is an Organized Research Unit of the University of Oklahoma. The Native American Languages Collection is the only language archive in the world whose primary focus is the indigenous languages of the central United States. The museum's current system will be replaced with two servers, a system for long-term archival backup, and new computing equipment. With the new system in place, the museum's collection will be secure, preventing against catastrophic loss of irreplaceable materials. The museum also will be able to greatly improve public access to collection materials.