| HD-51106-10 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants | University of Chicago | Cinemetrics, a Digital Laboratory for Film Studies. | 9/1/2010 - 3/31/2013 | $45,711.00 | Yuri | | Tsivian | | | | University of Chicago | Chicago | IL | 60637-5418 | USA | 2010 | Film History and Criticism | Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants | Digital Humanities | 45711 | 0 | 45479.97 | 0 | An online collection of tools that would allow film researchers to collect, store, and process scholarly data about film editing.
This proposal requests an NEH Level II Start-Up grant support for the innovation of Cinemetrics (http://www.cinemetrics.lv/index.php), an open-access, interactive website designed to supplement the traditional toolkit of film studies with a number of digital tools that enable researchers to collect, store, and process scholarly data about film editing. Any student of film interested in the way films are edited can use Cinemetrics tools to time a movie, submit the obtained time data, calculate and visualize data statistics, and comment on or make use of the data generated and collected by others. As it stands, Cinemetrics offers its users a client tool to measure a film, a database to store the measurements, graphs that help users to visualize the statistics, and a lab space that can be used to compare films. The NEH grant will enable the project team to innovate, augment, and enhance these tools. This will put Cinemetrics at the forefront of humanities cyberinfrastructure. |