| HD-51042-10 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants | Early Manuscripts Electronic Library | THE NYANGWE DIARY OF DAVID LIVINGSTONE: RESTORING THE TEXT | 5/1/2010 - 10/31/2011 | $50,000.00 | Adrian | | Wisnicki | | | | Early Manuscripts Electronic Library | Rolling Hills Estates | CA | 90274-4182 | USA | 2010 | British Literature | Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants | Digital Humanities | 50000 | 0 | 50000 | 0 | Creation of a digital image archive and online scholarly edition of David Livingtone's Nyangwe field diary (1871) by adapting imaging technology originally pioneered with medieval parchment palimpsests.
This project will build on imaging technology pioneered with medieval parchment palimpsests to create a digital image archive and online scholarly edition of the Nyangwe field diary (1871) of the celebrated Victorian explorer David Livingstone. Although in a fragile, nearly illegible state, the paper diary is of immense historical value because it details the circumstances leading up to Livingstone's famous meeting with Henry Stanley in November 1871, and because it records Livingstone's response to a massacre of the local African population by Arab slave traders' an event that would become a rallying point for late-Victorian abolitionists. Our project will seek to develop technology for the preservation of the diary and recovery of its faded text, and create a model for scholar-scientist collaboration. Our work will make Livingstone's diary accessible to scholars and non-specialists worldwide and produce a template for the display of similar records of Victorian travel and exploration. |
| PW-285018-22 | Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | University of Nebraska, Lincoln | COVE: Collaborative Organization for Virtual Education | 6/1/2022 - 5/31/2025 | $350,000.00 | Adrian | | Wisnicki | Dino | Franco | Felluga | University of Nebraska, Lincoln | Lincoln | NE | 68503-2427 | USA | 2022 | Literature, General | Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | Preservation and Access | 350000 | 0 | 350000 | 0 | Development of the Collaborative Organization for Virtual Education (COVE) with three areas of focus: implementation of more robust data standards for long-term use; expansion of content with over 80 titles concentrating especially on non-canonical and global literatures; and enhancements of the COVE website to facilitate pedagogically-focused digital humanities work with literary texts.
The PIs on this grant request NEH funds to preserve and expand a large body of critically-encoded nineteenth-century literary texts and recent, related critical literature. This corpus comprises seven million words of primary texts already encoded, one and a quarter million words of existing critical literature, and an additional one million words of primary texts to be encoded through the proposed project. All of this material has been or will be integrated into COVE (Collaborative Organization for Virtual Education), an open access publishing platform, while that integrated to date (the primary texts already encoded and the critical literature) is already being used by scholars and students from around the world for both teaching and research. Support from the NEH would ensure both technological and programmatic sustainability for the project and its content in the long term, especially the adoption of more robust data standards for the entire collection. |
| PW-51436-13 | Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | University of Nebraska, Lincoln | The Livingstone Online Enrichment and Access Project (LEAP) | 9/1/2013 - 8/31/2017 | $275,000.00 | Adrian | | Wisnicki | | | | University of Nebraska, Lincoln | Lincoln | NE | 68503-2427 | USA | 2013 | British Literature | Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | Preservation and Access | 275000 | 0 | 275000 | 0 | The digitization and transcription of 3,500 manuscript pages written by David Livingstone, pertaining to his exploration of Africa, for inclusion in the Livingstone Online Web site, along with the development of tools and services to enhance use by scholars and educators.
The Livingstone Online Enrichment and Access Project (LEAP) will support updating, integrating, and providing access to Livingstone Online (http://www.livingstoneonline.ucl.ac.uk/) and its digital image and transcription collections in order to secure the site's long-term sustainability as a unified, open-access resource for scholars and the general public. . Our site -- a well established, transatlantic, digital archive initiative -- seeks to provide worldwide access to the writings of Dr. David Livingstone (1813-73), the Scottish abolitionist, missionary, and explorer of Africa. |
| RQ-50707-14 | Research Programs: Scholarly Editions and Translations | University of Nebraska, Lincoln | Explorer David Livingstone's 1870 Field Diary and Select 1871 Letters: A Multispectral Critical Edition | 12/1/2013 - 12/31/2016 | $158,605.39 | Adrian | | Wisnicki | Megan | | Ward | University of Nebraska, Lincoln | Lincoln | NE | 68503-2427 | USA | 2013 | British Literature | Scholarly Editions and Translations | Research Programs | 158605.39 | 0 | 158605.39 | 0 | Preparation for publication of on online critical edition of the 1870 Field Diary and select letters of David Livingstone (1813 - 73), the Scottish writer, abolitionist, missionary and explorer of Africa. (24 months)
We are applying for an NEH Scholarly Translations and Editions Grant in order to develop an online critical edition of the 1870 Field Diary and select 1871 letters of Dr. David Livingstone (1813-73), the Scottish writer, abolitionist, missionary, and explorer of Africa. This publication will conclude the already successful work of the peer-reviewed, NEH-funded Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project (2010-Present). Our new critical edition will feature a comprehensive scholarly apparatus that includes annotated transcriptions of Livingstone's 1870 diary and 1871 letters, a range of critical essays, and processed spectral images that clarify Livingstone's manuscripts and shed light on the history of their production and preservation. A user-friendly interface will allow scholars and the general public to study all our critical materials, while additional integration of new data into our existing archive will enable our work to be both interoperable and sustainable in the long term. |