Program

Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants

Period of Performance

9/1/2011 - 2/28/2013

Funding Totals

$49,993.00 (approved)
$49,964.46 (awarded)


Spanish Paleography Digital Teaching and Learning Tool

FAIN: HD-51459-11

CUNY Research Foundation, City College (New York, NY 10031-9101)
Ramona Hernandez (Project Director: March 2011 to August 2013)

The development of a platform that will enable researchers to employ and teach advanced techniques in analyzing and reading four centuries of Spanish writing styles.

The proposed Spanish Paleography Digital Teaching and Learning Tool will be an open source, online digital platform bringing together for the first time a multiplicity of the latest electronic and digital information tools to allow users to learn how to read the four writing styles predominant in Spanish language documents of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries.