Catholic University of America (Washington, DC 20064-0001)
Lilla Kopar (Project Director: October 2012 to March 2015)
Nancy L. Wicker (Co Project Director: October 2012 to March 2015)
HD-51640-13
Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants
Digital Humanities
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Totals:
$27,921 (approved)
$24,457 (awarded)
Grant period:
7/1/2013 – 12/31/2014
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Project Andvari: A Digital Portal to the Visual World of Early Medieval Northern Europe
A two-day workshop bringing together an international group of humanities scholars, cultural heritage professionals, and technical experts to begin planning for an online resource that would facilitate access to digital collections of the art and artifacts of the early medieval period in northern Europe, drawn from a range of dispersed institutional holdings.
Project Andvari is designed to provide integrated access to dispersed collections of northern European art and artifacts of the early medieval period (4th-12th centuries). Our goal is to create a digital portal offering aggregated search options and enhanced metadata. Funding is requested to convene an international workshop for humanities scholars, museum professionals, and technology experts to refine the conceptual design of the proposed research tool and identify its technological requirements in preparation for a pilot project. Ultimately, Project Andvari will facilitate interdisciplinary research in art, archaeology, history, and literary and religious studies of the northern periphery of medieval Europe. It will allow users to study visual culture across media and beyond traditional geographical and disciplinary boundaries. Its innovative application of search methods will promote analyses of relationships of artifacts and cultures, and help us discover the hitherto unnoticed.
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