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PR-268710-20Preservation and Access: Research and DevelopmentUniversity of California, BerkeleyUniversal Scripts Project3/1/2020 - 11/30/2023$306,370.00DeborahWinthropAnderson   University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyCA94704-5940USA2019LinguisticsResearch and DevelopmentPreservation and Access2393706700023591067000

The preparation of eight scripts—six historical and two modern—for inclusion in the international Unicode standard, to aid research using materials in historical scripts and to promote communication in minority language communities.

Although computer and mobile users in many parts of the world can now communicate in hundreds of languages by using their own native writing system, there are still linguistic minority groups, and users of historical writing systems, who cannot. This is because the letters and symbols of these scripts are not yet part of the international character encoding standard, known as Unicode. More than one hundred and thirty eligible scripts are not yet included in Unicode, which directly affects humanities research, the creation of the global digital repository of humankind's literary and cultural heritage and, for users of modern scripts, basic communication. This project will fund proposals for two modern and six historical scripts (or major script additions) for inclusion in the standard, and pave the way for electronic communication in (and about) scripts by scholars and other user communities.

PR-268771-20Preservation and Access: Research and DevelopmentFAICBuilding a Life Cycle Assessment Tool & Library of Preventive Conservation Methods3/1/2020 - 2/28/2023$350,000.00Lissa Rosenthal-YoffeSarah SuttonFAICWashingtonDC20005-1704USA2019Interdisciplinary Studies, GeneralResearch and DevelopmentPreservation and Access35000003500000

Development of an online Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) tool and library for conservation and preservation professionals. When completed, this tool and library would help cultural heritage institutions evaluate the environmental and human health impacts of collection management activities, including conservation treatment, storage, loans, and exhibitions.

The Foundation for Advancement in Conservation (FAIC) will conducted Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) that will help collection care professionals to make informed choices that protect health and the environment while continuing to preserve and exhibit humanities collections. 3,500 materials, products, and processes will be researched and made available through an online Tool. Complex processes will captured in an LCA Library to guide collections care decision-making. Research results will be disseminated through articles, blog posts, presentations, workshops, and a traveling exhibit . Key research support will be provided by Northeastern University and the Pratt Institute. Principal Investigators are Matt Eckelman (NEU), Sarah Nunberg (Pratt), Eric Pourchot (FAIC), and Sarah Sutton (Sustainable Museums).

PR-268783-20Preservation and Access: Research and DevelopmentRITLow-Cost End-to-End Spectral Imaging System for Historical Document Discovery3/1/2020 - 2/28/2024$350,000.00David Messinger   RITRochesterNY14623-5698USA2019Interdisciplinary Studies, GeneralResearch and DevelopmentPreservation and Access35000003476800

A Tier II project to develop a low-cost spectral imaging system and accompanying software to recover obscured and illegible text in historical materials.

Most research libraries and museums hold unique or rare items on which historically significant text is no longer legible due to deterioration or erasure. Spectral imaging - the process of collecting images of objects in many wavelengths of light - has become one solution for recovering obscured and illegible text on historical materials. Unfortunately, these systems are very expensive, and require knowledge of image processing methods. Most libraries and museums cannot afford these systems, nor do they have the capacity to process the data. To mitigate this, we propose to develop a low-cost spectral imaging system with accompanying low barrier-to-entry software.

PR-268817-20Preservation and Access: Research and DevelopmentBoard of Trustees of the University of IllinoisBroadening Access to Text Analysis by Describing Uncertainty3/1/2020 - 5/31/2021$73,122.00William Underwood   Board of Trustees of the University of IllinoisChampaignIL61801-3620USA2019Interdisciplinary Studies, GeneralResearch and DevelopmentPreservation and Access731220731220

A Tier I project to study errors and paratextual noise in optically transcribed digital library texts, and the consequences of these errors on historical and humanistic conclusions measuring trends across time.

The noise associated with digital transcription has become an important obstacle to humanistic research. While the errors in digital texts are easily observed, the downstream effects of error on scholarship are far from clear. Consequential problems for the humanities often spring less from the average level of error in a collection than from the uneven distribution of noise across different periods, genres, and social strata. Uncertainty about this problem undermines confidence in research and discourages some scholars from using digital libraries at all. To address these problems, we will 1) Create paired libraries of clean, manually transcribed volumes and optically-transcribed versions of the same volumes, with or without paratext. 2) Conduct parallel experiments in these corpora to empirically measure the distortions affecting scholarship. 3) Construct a map of error and share resources that help scholars estimate levels of uncertainty in their work.