PRESERVATION AND ACCESS AWARDS
Division of Preservation and Access
Announced: February 2008
FISCAL YEAR 2008 GRANTS
HUMANITIES COLLECTIONS AND
RESOURCES
| American Philological Association,
Philadelphia, PA |
Outright: 305,000
Match: $83,465 |
The preparation of “l’Année Philologique,” a comprehensive bibliography of research in all fields of classical studies that contains abstracts of serial publications. www.apaclassics.org/ |
| Brown University, Providence, RI | Outright: $203,454 |
Development of a statewide union database of Encoded Archival Description (EAD) finding aids to improve access to archival and manuscript collections held in special collections repositories throughout the state that document the history of the United States and Rhode Island from the colonial period to the present. http://dl.lib.brown.edu/bamco/ |
| Columbia University, New York, NY | Outright: $340,217
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Enhancements to an integrated information system of papyri collections with access to catalog records, texts, images, and a bibliography, a new user interface, and better integration with related scholarly databases, and expansion of the digital repository. www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/pn/ |
| Emory University, Atlanta, GA | Outright: $349,641 |
The creation of a Web-based resource on the names, cultural identification, and migration patterns of Africans in the trans-Atlantic slave trade between 1819 and 1845.
www.slavevoyages.org |
| Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC | Outright: $350,000
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Creation of a searchable database and digital facsimiles for 10,000 items from the library's collection of Shakespeare and Shakespeare-era images.
www.folger.edu/ |
| Grambling State University, Grambling, LA | Outright:$332,112 |
Development of a Web-based trilingual dictionary for Kinyarwanda, Swahili, and English. The two African languages are widely spoken in East and Central Africa. Online collaboration tools would facilitate lexicographical work and allow users to propose additions, subject to editorial approval.
www.gram.edu/ |
| Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH | Outright: $25,000 |
Technical consultation for publishing and maintaining an online, citation-based dictionary of all dialects of ancient Aramaic from the 10th century B.C. to A.D. 1400.
http://cal1.cn.huc.edu/ |
| The Henry Ford, Dearborn, MI | Outright: $121,657 |
Cataloging and improving preservation of the land transport serials collection held by the Benson Ford Research Center, comprising over 800 titles and 51,000 individual issues published from 1886 to the present.
www.hfmgv.org/ |
| Hermitage, Hermitage, TN | Outright: $235,855 |
| Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI | Outright: $299,980
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Preserving and providing access to the historic videotape collection and supporting production materials from the series “American Black Journal” produced by Detroit Public Television.
http://matrix.msu.edu/~abj/ |
| Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN | Outright: $141,550
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Arrangement and description of the personal papers of Walter F. Mondale, along with selected digitization of photographs and the creation of a dedicated Web portal.
www.mnhs.org/index.htm |
| Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, NY | Outright: $200,000
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Cataloging of 4,028 material culture artifacts from the silent film era, along with digital imaging of approximately half of these.
http://collection.movingimage.us/ |
| New York Public Library, New York, NY | Outright: $345,800
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Cataloging of 1,500 volumes of Chinese rare books of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, with conservation treatment and digitization of 93 volumes.
www.nypl.org/ |
| Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA | Outright: $200,446
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Arrangement and description of the Norman Rockwell Archival Collection, containing correspondence, business records, ephemera, and the contents of Rockwell's art studio.
www.nrm.org/ |
| RIPM Consortium Ltd., Baltimore, MD | Outright: $350,000
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The online retrieval of the full texts of more than 500,000 scholarly articles on music from an online database that incorporates 89 journals in 13 languages and covers the period 1800 to 1950.
www.ripm.org/index.php |
| University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Fayetteville, AR | Outright: $338,045
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The creation of a digital archaeological atlas of selected sites from the greater Near East (North Africa to Central Asia) based on CORONA satellite images.
www.uark.edu/home/ |
| University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA | Outright: $50,000
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Consultation to develop a long-term sustainability plan for an online etymological dictionary and thesaurus of Proto-Sino-Tibetan, the common ancestor of languages spoken in China, India, and Southeast Asia.
http://stedt.berkeley.edu/ |
| University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA | Outright: $350,000
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The second phase of development of an online encyclopedia with 1,000 peer-reviewed entries averaging 1,500 words on the history and culture of Egypt from 5500 B.C. to A.D. 641.
www.humnet.ucla.edu/UEE/ |
| University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA | Outright: $200,000
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Enhancement of the English Short Title Catalog’s (ESTC) 18th-century records to include at least 6,600 new titles, new subject areas, and information about additional holding institutions.
http://estc.ucr.edu/ |
| University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA | Outright: $350,000
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Digitizing images of 1,500 17th-century English ballads held by the British Library, as well as illustrative woodcuts, facsimile transcriptions, contextual essays, and audio files of sung versions of the ballads, and incorporating them into an electronic archive.
http://emc.english.ucsb.edu/ballad_project/ |
| University of Chicago, Chicago, IL | Outright: $350,000
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Cataloging and digitizing administrative documents dating from 500 B.C. from Persepolis, the chief imperial residence of the Achaemenid kings in the homeland of the ancient Persian Empire.
http://oi.uchicago.edu/ |
| University of Georgia, Athens, GA | Outright: $349,600
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Digitization of interviews from the Linguistic Atlas Project, including 6,400 hours of audio interviews with speakers of American English from the 1960s to the 1990s.
http://us.english.uga.edu/ |
| University of Illinois, Champaign, IL | Outright: $111,278
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The completion of the cataloging and rehousing of circa 500 cubic feet of materials excavated since 1920 at Cahokia, a prehistoric site in Illinois dated A.D. 1200 to 1300.
www.uiuc.edu/ |
| University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC | Outright: $138,273
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The transfer to digital format of 2,350 hours of analog audio recordings from seven collections held in the university's Southern Folklife Collection, which documents the history and culture of the region through music and oral history.
www.lib.unc.edu/mss/sfc1/ |
| University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA | Outright: $251,046
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Online publication of the official inscriptions of the rulers of ancient Assyria, which are preserved on clay tablets and other artifacts. The project would also provide transliterations, translations, and bibliographic information.
http://cdl.museum.upenn.edu/ |
| University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada | Outright: $100,000
Match: $100,000 |
The preparation of entries for the “Dictionary of Old English,” a historical dictionary based on the entire extant corpus of Old English texts written between A.D. 650 and 1150.
www.doe.utoronto.ca/ |
| Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD | Outright: $307,500
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Cataloging and digitizing 236 Islamic illuminated manuscripts, which contain 53,000 folios that date from the 9th to the 19th centuries. Images and catalog data would be freely accessible via the museum's Web site and available through a portal maintained by Johns Hopkins University.
www.thewalters.org/ |
DOCUMENTING ENDANGERED LANGUAGES
| University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Lincoln, NE | Outright: $308,800 |
The preparation of an online dictionary of Omaha and Ponca, mutually intelligible Siouan languages spoken in Nebraska and Oklahoma.
www.unl.edu/ |
| University of Oklahoma, Norman, Norman, OK | Outright:$308,800
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Fieldwork on the grammar, lexicon, and storytelling traditions of the Plains Apache, speakers of an endangered Athabaskan language in Oklahoma. The project would result in a database, which would be used to produce a dictionary and a collection of texts.
www.ou.edu/web/home.html |
JISC/NEH Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration Grants
| Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC | Outright: $119,598 |
The creation of a digital archive of pre-1641 quarto editions of Shakespeare’s plays with a prototype for an interactive interface, toolset, and enhanced functionality.
www.folger.edu/ |
| Internet Archive, San Francisco, CA | Outright: $106,395 |
Development of tools and methodologies for indexing and analyzing the textual parts of larger digital collections, more focused browsing (“crawling”) of the Web, and unified access to data resources.
www.archive.org/about/contact.php |
| New York University, New York, NY | Outright: $129,828 |
Development of technologies for integrated searching, dynamic mapping, and geographical correlation of Web-based humanities collections, focusing on existing and newly digitized papyrological and epigraphic texts related to Greek and Roman Libya and Egypt.
www.nyu.edu/public.affairs/releases/detail/2074
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| Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc., Charlottesville, VA | Outright: $132,832 |
The development of an integrated digital archive of diverse archaeological and historical data related to the experiences of African slaves who labored on 17th-, 18th- and 19th-century sugar plantations in the Caribbean.
www.daacs.org/ |
| Tufts University, Medford, MA | Outright: $119,992 |
Creation of a digital collection of fragmentary writings of Greek historians and development of a virtual research environment for Greco-Roman antiquity using grid technologies that would be broadly applicable to other humanities disciplines.
www.perseus.tufts.edu/
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