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.

The Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College, London joins the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University in responding to the NEH/JISC call for innovative digitization projects. Concordia is a creative and time-critical transatlantic collaboration that advances digitization priorities along two complementary axes: dissemination of key epigraphical, papyrological, and geographic resources for Greek and Roman culture in North Africa, and piloting of reusable, standard techniques for cyberinfrastructure. This demonstration project unites an array of separately produced and hosted primary source collections with a unique geographic dataset to provide search and analysis presently available only in a few special-purpose, closed systems. The content of three existing, respected collections (including 50,000 papyrological and 3,000 epigraphic texts) are brought together with open-source software and newly digitized content (an additional 950 epigraphic texts plus complete topographic and toponymic records for over 3,000 historical geographic features) to create an unparalleled research resource for Greek and Roman Libya and Egypt. Concordia uses basic Web architecture and standard formats (XHTML, EpiDoc/TEI XML, and Atom+GeoRSS). The project would catalyze the rapid establishment of a simple, Web-based research infrastructure which takes us beyond discrete Web pages and bland hyperlinks to actionable electronic citation and cross-project discovery without continued waiting for mature international repository networks or the putative 'semantic Web'. The results of this project would be freely accessible on the Web.

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.

The St. Kitts-Nevis Digital Archaeology Initiative is an innovative collaborative project designed to further scholarship on slavery. An international team of scholars from the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery at the Thomas Jefferson Foundation in Charlottesville, Virginia, the University of Southampton's Nevis Heritage Project, and the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool will digitize and deliver on the Web information from two eighteenth-century plantations and their slave villages, one located on Nevis and the other on St. Kitts. The result will be a first-of-its-kind digital collection of fully searchable archaeological and historical data from multiple slave village sites in the Caribbean. The teams will create a robust digital archive of archaeological and historical data through use of rigorous and well-defined cataloging standards and metadata, insuring interoperability and analytical comparability. DAACS archaeological analysts will catalog all of the archaeological materials to DAACS standards. Ceramicists from the University of Southampton and University of Tennessee will analyze and digitize all slave-made coarse earthenware ceramics. All recovered faunal remains will be digitized at Colonial Williamsburg's Zooarchaeological Laboratory. The rich documentary record of these plantations will be digitized in archives in the United Kingdom and on Nevis and St. Kitts. Both archaeological and documentary data will be freely accessible through two Web-based portals: the research-oriented DAACS Web site and the publicly-oriented International Slavery Museum Web site.

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.

The Internet Archive (IA) houses one of the largest publicly accessible collections of digital artifacts in the world, with more than 110 billion Web captures that include content from more than 65 million Web sites in over 40 languages. In addition, IA maintains a collection of more than one million public domain texts, thousands of still and moving images, and numerous multimedia software titles. IA plays an active role in the development of digital archiving standards and open-source tools and participates in the Open Content Alliance and the International Internet Preservation Consortium. The English partners in the project are the Oxford Internet Institute, which specializes in researching the effects of the Web and technology on scholarship and teaching, and Hanzo, a company focused on advanced Web archiving technologies. The proposed project would use advanced hyperlink analysis and data mining to study how research in the digital humanities has been framed, funded, and implemented internationally over time. The resulting data would be archived in a specialized collection of several million Uniform Resource Identifiers that would be made available for future research and analysis. The collection would include a range of content such as digital humanities project Web sites and tools, portals, datasets, and research reports. In addition to the data archive outlining the development and current state of the humanities on the Web, the applicant would index the collection for full-text search, encode the indexed data, and make available an interface and tools for future research. All these resources would be freely available on the Web.

The digital reconstruction of Charles Darwin's working library as it stood at the end of his life, to include the presentation of the complex array of annotations throughout his working texts.

This project which aims to reconstruct, digitally, Charles Darwin's working library as it stood at the end of his life's journey, will open up and make accessible to students of the humanities and the sciences whole new dimensions of Darwin's thinking. Over 700 of Darwin's most heavily annotated books are held at Cambridge University Library. The abundant hand-written notes on these books were painstakingly transcribed in the late 1980s. Now, thanks to high-resolution digital imagery, and an international partnership of Cambridge, the Natural History Museum in London, the Biodiversity Heritage Library-a consortium of natural history libraries, and the Darwin Digital Library of Evolution-an online scholarly edition of Darwin's manuscripts based at the American Museum of Natural History, Darwin's transcribed marginalia will be digitally married with scanned books from his own library and with scanned surrogate volumes of the exact editions Darwin owned from the partnership's libraries.