{
    items : [
        {   type :                  "Government",
            label :                 "PLEDGE",
            title :                 "PLEDGE: PoLicey Enabled Data Grid Environments",
            "year-started" :        "2005",
	    "year-completed" :	    "2007",
            funder :                "NSF/NARA",
            collaborator :          [
				     "San Diego Supercomputer Center",
				     "University of California, San Diego Libraries"
	    ],
	    "award-amount" :	    "$300,000",
            description : 	    "research policy frameworks for digital information life cycle management and preservation, and technical issues related to policy engines across distributed preservation environments (e.g. DSpace and SRB)",
            "project-URL" :           "http://pledge.mit.edu"
        },
        {   type :                  "Foundation",
            label :                 "SIMILE",
            title :                 "SIMILE: Semantic Interoperability of Metadata In unLike Environments",
            "year-started" :        "2005",
	    "year-completed" :	    "2008",
            funder :                "Mellon Foundation",
            collaborator :          "None",
	    "award-amount" :	    "$1.5m",
            description :	    "continue research in collaboration with MIT CSAIL and the W3C on digital library data interoperability using Semantic Web technology in the higher education and cultural heritage domains. Formerly funded by HP Labs via the HP-MIT Alliance.",
            "project-URL" :         "http://simile.mit.edu"
        },
        {   type :                  "Government",
            label :                 "FACADE",
            title :                 "FACADE: Future-proofing Architectural Computer-Aided DEsign",
            "year-started" :        "2006",
	    "year-completed" :      "2008",
            funder:                 "IMLS",
            collaborator :          "Gehry Partners",
	    "award-amount" :	    "$750,000",
            description : 	    "Research techniques for archiving and preserving digital 3D and 2D CAD models used by architects and designers such as CATIA and AutoDesk. The primary test collection are the CAD files for the MIT Stata Center, a building designed by Frank Gehry and completed in 2004.",
            "project-URL" :         "http://facade.mit.edu"
        }
    ]
}