Kent State University Main Campus

Project Director:  Michael Kreyche

To Support:  Development of a collaborative framework for building a bilingual (Spanish-English) list of subject headings for access to libraries materials.  The project would exploit Web technologies for data gathering and enable broad-based collaboration so that use of the database contributes added value.

Award Dates:  09/01/2007 - 08/31/2008

Outright Funds: $29,994.  Matching Funds: $0

Abstract: This proposal describes a prototype for a new kind of digital subject heading list to overcome some limitations of the traditional reference tools, printed thesauri, and catalog-based authority files. It will encompass multiple sources and focus on collaborative development and management of data using emerging web technologies. Specifically designed to be bilingual (English/Spanish), it may also have applications for monolingual vocabulary lists.

Project Website: [none]

Project Whitepaper Available for Download?  [no]

Jointly Funded by the NEH and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

City of Philadelphia, Department of Records

Project Director:  Joan Decker

To Support:  Development of an enhanced Web site (www.PhillyHistory.org) featuring historically significant collections at the City of Philadelphia's Department of Records and the Free Library of Philadelphia and the creation of tools to increase the level of access to and usefulness of these collections for researchers, students, and members of the general public.

Award Dates:   10/2008 - 9/2010

Outright Funds: $108,882  Matching Funds: $0

Abstract: The City of Philadelphia, Department of Records, in collaboration with the Free Library of Philadelphia has designed this collaborative project in an effort to link critical historical data collections from across the region, providing access to a broader scope of information to researchers, historians, genealogists, students, and other members of the public. This project is designed to begin the process of collaboration between these two organizations with two of the library's most critical and historically significant digital collections--the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 Collection and the Historical Images of Philadelphia Collection.  Through this project the partners will both integrate metadata and implement new user tools that will enhance end-user access.

Project Website:  http://www.PhillyHistory.org

Project Whitepaper Available for Download?  [no]

Jointly Funded by the NEH and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Brown University

Project Director:  Julia Flanders

To Support:  A series of workshops for humanities faculty and graduate students to explore advanced uses of digital text encoding as an essential method in humanities scholarship.

Award Dates:  07/01/2009 - 06/01/2011

Outright Funds: $196,000  Matching Funds: $0

Abstract: This project offers a series of nine advanced 3-day and 4-day institutes in text encoding for scholarly humanities projects with TEI. Aimed at an audience with a working knowledge of the TEI Guidelines, these institutes provide an intensive environment for more advanced project development, including schema customization, encoding strategy, and documentation. The institutes will focus on three topics of particular interest to scholars working on digital humanities projects: the encoding of manuscripts, the representation of contextual information, and the development of large thematic research collections.

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Project Whitepaper Available for Download?  [no]

American Indian Higher Education Consortium

Project Director:  Carrie Billy

To Support:  The collaboration among the Autry National Center/Southwest Museum of the American Indian, the National Museum of the American Indian, the National Anthropological Archives, and the National Museum of Natural History to federate collection databases focused on Native American collections and share the data in new ways with tribal colleges and community members.

Award Dates:   10/2008 - 9/2010

Outright Funds: $175,000  Matching Funds: $0

Abstract: The American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC), representing 37 tribal colleges and universities in the United States and Canada, proposes to collaborate with  the National Museum of the American Indian, the National Museum of Natural History, the Southwest Museum of the American Indian, the Indiana University Community Grids Laboratory, and a pilot group of Tribal Colleges to develop innovative strategies for using digital technology to make cultural material in major museums and archives available to American Indian people in more meaningful ways, facilitating locally-determined educational and research purposes.

Project Website: [none]

Project Whitepaper Available for Download?  [no]

Jointly Funded by the NEH and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

University of Maryland, College Park

Project Director:  Matthew Kirschenbaum

To Support:  A series of planning meetings and site visits aimed at developing archival tools and best practices for preserving born-digital documents produced by contemporary authors.

Award Dates:  09/01/2008 - 03/31/2009

Outright Funds: $11,708.  Matching Funds: $0

Abstract: Digital Humanities Initiative Level 1 Start Up funding is requested to support a series of site visits and planning meetings among personnel working with the born-digital components of three significant collections of literary material: the Salman Rushdie papers at Emory University's Woodruff Library, the Michael Joyce Papers at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, and the Deena Larsen Collection at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland. The meetings and site visits will facilitate the preparation of a larger collaborative grant proposal among the three institutions aimed at developing archival tools and best practices for preserving and curating the born-digital documents and records of contemporary authorship. Initial findings will be made available through a jointly authored and publicly distributed online white paper, as well as conference presentations at relevant venues.

Project Website: [none]

Project Whitepaper Available for Download?  [no]

Jointly Funded by the NEH and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.