The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation , commonly known as the Mellon Foundation , is a New York City -based private foundation with wealth accumulated by Andrew Mellon of the Mellon family of Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania. It is the product of the 1969 merger of the Avalon Foundation and the Old Dominion Foundation. These foundations had been set up separately by Ailsa Mellon Bruce and Paul Mellon , the children of Andrew Mellon.
4-602: Xaira is an XML Aware Indexing and Retrieval Architecture developed at Oxford University, it was funded by the Mellon Foundation between 2005 and 2006. It is based on SARA, an SGML -aware text-searching system originally developed for searching the British National Corpus . Xaira has been redeveloped as a generic XML system for constructing query-systems for any kind of XML data, in particular for use with TEI . The current Windows implementation
8-478: Is intended for non-specialist users. A more sophisticated and open-source version is currently under development. This version supports cross-platform working using standards such as XML-RPC and SOAP . This markup language article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The foundation is housed in New York City in the expanded former offices of
12-691: The Bollingen Foundation , another educational philanthropy once supported by Paul Mellon. Poet and scholar Elizabeth Alexander is the foundation's current president. Her predecessors have included Earl Lewis , Don Randel , William G. Bowen , John Edward Sawyer and Nathan Pusey . In 2004, the foundation was awarded the National Medal of Arts . Mellon's research group has investigated doctoral education, collegiate admissions, independent research libraries, charitable nonprofits, scholarly communications, and other issues to ensure that
16-721: The foundation's grants would be well-informed and more effective. Some of the recent publications of this effect include Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education , Reclaiming the Game: College Sports and Educational Values , JSTOR: A History , The Game of Life: College Sports and Educational Values , and The Shape of the River . Mellon's endowment fluctuates in the range of $ 5 to $ 6 billion, and its annual grant-making amounts to about $ 300 million. According to Alexander, Mellon supports
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