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| DIGITAL HUMANITIES AWARDS |
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| Announced: May 2008 |
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| DIGITAL HUMANITIES START-UP GRANTS |
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American Association for State and Local History — Nashville, TN
Online Encyclopedia Best Practices and Standards
Matthew Gibson, Project Director
Outright: $25,000
To support development of best practices for the production of geographically-based online
humanities encyclopedias.
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Center for Independent Documentary — Sharon, MA
Murder at Harvard Mobile
Michael Epstein, Project Director
Outright: $50,000
To support development of a multi-media, historical, mobile walking tour of Boston.
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Connecticut Humanities Council — Middletown, CT
Connecticut’s Heritage ECHOsystem: Resolving the Challenges to Interoperability Across Disparate
Digital Repositories
Bruce Fraser, Project Director
Outright: $50,000
To support a unique electronic system bringing together digitized records, images and documents,
Connecticut-focused curricula, Connecticut history-centered media resources, indexes of related
museum exhibitions and events, and scholar-written essays and short entries.
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CUNY Research Foundation, NYC College of Technology — Brooklyn, NY
Looking for Whitman: the Poetry of Place in the Life and Work of Walt Whitman
Matthew Gold, Project Director
Outright: $24,912
To support development of a series of courses at four partner institutions that would engage students
in online investigations of Walt Whitman's work in geographical context.
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Haverford College — Haverford, PA
The Chansonniers of Nicholas Du Chemin (1549-1551): A Digital Forum for Renaissance Music Books
Richard Freedman, Project Director
Outright: $22,622
To support development of an open source bilingual database and collaborative digital forum to
facilitate research and scholarly exchange about Renaissance music.
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Michigan State University — East Lansing, MI
Archive 2.0: Imagining the Michigan State University Israelite Samaritan Scroll Collection
William Hart-Davidson, Project Director
Outright: $33,327
To support development of a project that would use new Internet tools and design practices to study
and discuss fifteenth-century bible scrolls.
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New York University — New York, NY
Simonides: A Student-Centered Humanities Learning Tool
Robert Squillace, Project Director
Outright: $49,351
To support the development of a collaborative e-portfolio software tool intended to support a liberal
arts curriculum and built on the Sakai Open Source Portfolio platform.
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Ohio State University Research Foundation — Columbus, OH
Reliable Witnesses: Integrating Multimedia, Distributed Electronic Textual Editions into Library
Collections
H. Lewis Ulman, Project Director
Outright: $35,925
To support development of strategies for integrating distributed electronic editions and digital projects
into library collections, with attention to matters relating to acquisition, description, and preservation of
these materials.
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Plymouth State University — Plymouth, NH
Scriblio MU
Casey Bisson, Project Director
Outright: $49,975
To support implementation and testing of a prototype digital access and management system to allow
small and mid-sized archives, libraries, and museums to provide public access to digital collections.
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SUNY Research Foundation, College at Purchase — Purchase, NY
Internationalizing Humanities Education through Globally Networked Learning
M. Jon Rubin, Project Director
Outright: $49,864
To support the development of a faculty development model for international online collaborative
humanities education, focusing initially on partnerships with universities in Russia, Ghana, and Canada.
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Independent Scholar — Brooklyn, NY
Where Minds Meet: New Architectures for the Study of History and Music
Bob Stein, Project Director
Outright: $24,292
To support planning activities, including two symposia, to consider the future of scholarly humanities
publishing within the networked environment of the Web.
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University of California, Riverside — Riverside, CA
The Early California Cultural Atlas
Steven Hackel, Project Director
Outright: $25,000
To support development of an interactive website that would use maps and other tools to examine the
historical development of colonial California from 1769 to 1850.
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University of Chicago — Chicago, IL
Digital Documentation of a Provincial Town in Ancient Egypt
Nadine Moeller, Project Director
Outright: $50,000
To support the development of new digital image capturing techniques enabling researchers to
process data from archaeological excavations more accurately and efficiently at the site of Tell Edfu,
one of the last well-preserved ancient cities in Egypt.
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University of Illinois — Champaign, IL
The Cartography of American Colonization Database Project
S. Edelson, Project Director
Outright: $24,997
To support the development of a database of 1000 historical maps illustrating the trajectory of
colonization in the Americas. The database will provide a searchable introduction to the mapping of the
western hemisphere in the era of European expansion, ca. 1500-1800.
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University of Kentucky Research Foundation — Lexington, KY Lexington, KY
Carolingian Canon Law Project: A Collaborative Initiative
Abigail Firey, Project Director
Outright: $49,133
To support the establishment of encoding standards and digital access for multiple versions of
medieval Latin legal manuscripts, including bibliographic information, annotations, and English
translations.
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University of Maryland, College Park — College Park, MD
Visualizing Archival Collections
Jennifer Golbeck, Project Director
Outright: $14,050
To support the development of visualization tools for assessing information contained in electronic
archival finding aids created with Encoded Archival Description (EAD).
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University of Maryland, College Park — College Park, MD
Electronic Broadway Project
Douglas Reside, Project Director
Outright: $48,316
To support the development of a prototype interface for producing electronic editions of the musical
theater texts and related materials.
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University of Nebraska, Lincoln — Lincoln, NE
The Crowded Page
Andrew Jewell, Project Director
Outright: $49,577
To support the development of data-mining and visualization tools to detail and map relationships in
communities of writers and artists within specific geographic and temporal locations.
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University of Richmond — Richmond, VA
Visualizing the Past: Tools and Techniques for Understanding Historical Processes
Andrew Torget, Project Director
Outright: $19,942
To support a two-day workshop on issues relating to visualization and historical processes and the first
steps toward the creation of new tools for overcoming obstacles to data visualization work.
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Wayne State University — Detroit, MI
The Digital Learning and Development Environment
Nardina Mein, Project Director
Outright: $50,000
To support the development of a prototype learning tool to incorporate digital humanities collections
housed in a university's digital repository, beginning with two collections housed in the Wayne State
University Library System.
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Willamette University — Salem, OR
Bridging the Gap: Connecting Authors to Museum and Archival Collections
Michael Spalti, Project Director
Outright: $49,020
To support the creation of an open source link between the digital resources available through the
commonly-used asset management system, CONTENTdm, with the multimedia Web authoring
application, Pachyderm.
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