HAA-255885-17 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | York County Community College | Go Local: Building Capacity for Public History in York County, Maine | 9/1/2017 - 12/31/2018 | $21,000.00 | Dianne | | Fallon | | | | York County Community College | Wells | ME | 04090-5341 | USA | 2017 | Public History | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 21000 | 0 | 21000 | 0 | A series of planning and development activities to help York County
Community College and local historical societies in southeastern Maine develop their
own digital public history projects.
York County Community College respectfully seeks a Digital Humanities Advancement grant to build capacity for public history in York County, Maine by providing support for professional development and training for local organizations to develop public history projects using digital tools. The grant would also support a needs assessment of committed historical organizations, two workshops focused on planning and expanding digital expertise, and the development of an entry-level course at York County Community College aimed at teaching students to use digital tools to present public history projects based on local history. The main goal of the project is to foster networking, information sharing, and collaboration between and among local organizations and with York County Community College, and to plan for future projects that might involve the College and its students. |
HAA-255937-17 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | St. Lawrence University | Diviner, A Digital Platform | 11/1/2017 - 5/31/2019 | $73,500.00 | Ellen | J. | Rocco | | | | St. Lawrence University | Canton | NY | 13617-1423 | USA | 2017 | Communications | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 73500 | 0 | 73500 | 0 | The development of a digital platform to assist small historical societies and other local humanities institutions,
including public media organizations, in curating their federated collections on the web.
North Country Public Radio is developing Diviner, an innovative digital platform for organizing and sharing humanities materials with the public, and encouraging exploration and personal interaction with that content. Our proposal is to package Diviner, the digital platform, and make it available to other humanities and public media organizations. During the grant period we will evaluate our current platform, develop new elements, and finally package all elements of the platform into free WordPress elements to be shared publicly in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory. During the grant period we will develop Diviner into a configurable platform useful for other organizations, through staff development meetings, meetings with our advisory board on how best to package the platform for public use, meetings with our humanities collaborators to design new features, and periods of testing and quality assurance for all aspects of the platform. |
HAA-255942-17 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | James Madison University | Circulating American Magazines: Making Lost Historical Data from the Audit Bureau of Circulations Publicly Available | 10/1/2017 - 10/31/2020 | $50,904.00 | Brooks | E. | Hefner | Edward | | Timke | James Madison University | Harrisonburg | VA | 22807-0001 | USA | 2017 | American Literature | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 50904 | 0 | 48421.65 | 0 | The creation of web-based tools to visualize magazine circulation and readership data for historically significant magazines dated between 1880 to 1972. This will allow scholars and students to easily access information about circulation that has, to date, been “virtually invisible” due to an arcane and difficult-to-navigate cataloging system.
Although digitization has made more periodical content available to historians, literary critics, and print culture specialists, scholars remain largely in the dark about periodicals’ reach. Circulating American Magazines offers tools to analyze and visualize circulation data for historically significant magazines between 1880 and 1972. Using detailed reports from the Audit Bureau of Circulations and the advertising firm N.W. Ayer & Son, this project provides complete access to circulation numbers by issue, in addition to each title’s geographical circulation across the United States and abroad. The project offers web-based visualization tools that allow students and scholars to investigate the history of a magazine or compare multiple magazines’ readership. The project’s centralization of circulation data allows students and scholars to see American periodical history in radically new ways, describing periodicals’ development with an accuracy that has not been possible before. |
HAA-255979-17 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | University of Wisconsin System | Investigating the Golden Age of Podcasting through Metadata and Sound | 10/1/2017 - 6/30/2019 | $74,972.00 | Jeremy | Wade | Morris | Eric | | Hoyt | University of Wisconsin System | Madison | WI | 53715-1218 | USA | 2017 | Media Studies | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 74972 | 0 | 74961.52 | 0 | Prototype development and adaptation of open-source software tools to facilitate large-scale search and analysis of podcasts.
Despite an explosion of interest in podcasts - claims of a “Golden Age” of podcasts abound - sound remains mystifyingly difficult to analyze and the history of this emerging media form is already at risk of being lost. PodcastRE Analytics: Investigating Podcasting through Metadata and Sound aims to put podcasting’s data traces to work, making digital audio more usable, visible and audible than current archives. PodcastRE Analytics leverages the 120,000+ podcasts of the PodcastRE database (http://podcastre.org), a preservation collaboration between UW-Madison’s Libraries and Dept. of Communication Arts, to pioneer new techniques for the analysis and visualization of audio and metadata. While tools for data mining text archives exist, PodcastRE Analytics will allow users to explore audio in ways that are as familiar as textual resources. Using digital humanities methods, we can better research contemporary culture and investigate a new media form that has captured significant attention. |
HAA-255990-17 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Cleveland State University | Curating East Africa: A Platform and Process for Location-Based Storytelling in the Developing World | 9/1/2017 - 12/31/2018 | $74,939.00 | J. Mark | | Souther | Meshack | | Owino | Cleveland State University | Cleveland | OH | 44115-2214 | USA | 2017 | Public History | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 74939 | 0 | 70188.62 | 0 | Expansion of the Curating Kisumu project, which brings together collaborators from the United States and Kenya to develop a mobile website interpreting regional history and culture in East Africa.
We seek a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant to develop a Curatescape for WordPress beta, a toolset comprised of an open-source plugin and theme framework that enables scholars or small teams to create interpretive humanities presentations optimized for the mobile-first Internet culture in East Africa and the developing world. Expanding upon our Curating Kisumu project, we will continue to involve transnational student teams in building collaboratively researched and curated location-based stories in Kisumu, Kenya, with project partner Maseno University. After building the beta, which expands upon the existing Curatescape toolset, we will test it with Kisumu content and engage a panel of humanities experts in Kenya and Tanzania to evaluate both the content and the framework. By overcoming regional technical constraints, the project addresses gaps between ambition and adoption of digital humanities practice in Africa and supports local cultural production. |
HAA-255991-17 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | University of South Florida | Reconstructing the First Humanities Computing Center | 9/1/2017 - 9/30/2019 | $75,000.00 | Steven | E. | Jones | | | | University of South Florida | Tampa | FL | 33620-9951 | USA | 2017 | History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 75000 | 0 | 74971.99 | 0 | The digital re-creation of the laboratory of pioneering digital humanities scholar Father Roberto Busa to study the methods used by his
team in early computational work with scholarly texts.
In 1956, Roberto Busa, SJ, founded the first humanities computing center in Italy. After five years in other locations, the operation moved in 1961 into a former textile factory outside Milan, where IBM punched-card data processing machines were installed. There student operators worked on the Index Thomisticus, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and other projects, 1961-1967. We aim to digitize a key range of materials in the Busa Archive directly relevant to the establishment of the center, to augment these with oral histories of machine operators and link to punched-card machine software emulators and an immersive 3D model of the center. The goal is to begin to recover the infrastructure, workflow, and institutional contexts for this highly significant “site” (both literally and figuratively) in the history of technology and the humanities. The outcome will be increased historical understanding through the creation of models for research and learning. |
HAA-255994-17 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | St. John's University, Collegeville | Ensuring Access to Endangered and Inaccessible Manuscripts | 9/1/2017 - 6/30/2020 | $366,388.00 | Columba | A. | Stewart | | | | St. John's University, Collegeville | Collegeville | MN | 56321-2000 | USA | 2017 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 323958 | 42430 | 323958 | 42430 | Further development of the virtual Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, a digital portal that provides online access to manuscript collections from Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. This phase of the project would support development of the platform’s underlying technical framework as well as features to enhance the researcher experience.
The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) at Saint John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota, seeks support for the next phase of development for its recently-launched vHMML platform for manuscript studies (www.vhmml.org). vHMML 1.0 was released in October 2015 with resources to support the use of manuscripts in research; vHMML 2.0 launched in August 2016 with an online Reading Room that is making tens of thousands of otherwise inaccessible and often endangered manuscript books and archival documents available to users around the world free of charge. NEH funding will make it possible to create vHMML 3.0, with greatly increased discoverability of manuscripts and metadata, and much richer data sharing with other digital humanities projects. vHMML 3.0 will add features requested by partner projects and researchers, and NEH support in both outright and matching funds will sustain the human resources needed to guarantee best-practice administration and continued development of vHMML. |
HAA-255998-17 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Louisiana State University and A&M College | V-ESPACE: Virtual Early Modern Spectacles and Publics, Active and Collaborative Environment | 9/1/2017 - 10/31/2018 | $39,982.00 | Jeffrey | M. | Leichman | Françoise | | Rubellin | Louisiana State University and A&M College | Baton Rouge | LA | 70803-0001 | USA | 2017 | Theater History and Criticism | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 39982 | 0 | 39982 | 0 | The early-stage development of a virtual reality environment that re-creates an 18th century theater at the Paris Fair. The environment is intended to provide users with an immersive experience that will allow them to learn about social and political issues, discourse, and status during the time of the Enlightenment.
The V-ESPACE project consists of devising and implementing an interactive and explorable virtual reality video game of an evening at the eighteenth-century Paris Fair theater. Players select avatars with distinct goals to complete, keyed to the play on stage and their social status, as they navigate the virtual theater space alongside other users and non-player characters. Game play accommodates a range of linguistic ability, making this an inclusive learning tool for undergraduates studying French, theater, or early modern history. During this grant period, we will establish (1) the floor plan and architectural features of an historically accurate virtual Fair theater space; (2) the text(s) that will comprise the theatrical entertainment, as well as modalities for digital capture of a live performance; (3) avatar profiles, story lines, and characteristics, integrating historical research with computerized behavioral modeling; and (4) detailed roadmaps for continued research and implementation. |
HAA-255999-17 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | University of Pennsylvania | The Philadelphia Playbills Project | 1/1/2018 - 12/31/2018 | $75,000.00 | William | | Noel | Laura | E. | Aydelotte | University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | PA | 19104-6205 | USA | 2017 | Theater History and Criticism | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 75000 | 0 | 72380.26 | 0 | A proof-of-concept effort to transcribe and disseminate textual data from a
collection of theater playbills documenting 19th-century American
theater history.
The Philadelphia Playbills Project (PPP) takes materials from the archive and transforms them into Linked Open Data. The project will be based at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries and collaborate with the New York Public Library and the Yale University Digital Humanities Lab. It will use a sample set of 19th century playbills filled with performance information from America's oldest theaters to test approaches to generating data from these materials, including publically crowdsourcing transcriptions using the Ensemble software produced by the NYPL. The PPP will then test workflows for transforming this data into RDF (Linked data). The project will produce a previously unavailable data set that will support new research about the American Theater, develop and refine methodologies for generating such data in the future on a larger scale with other playbill collections, and lay the grounds for future collaborative work with a conference on Performance History in the Digital Age. |
HAA-256044-17 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Carnegie Mellon University | Text in Situ: Reasoning about Visual Information in the Computational Analysis of Books | 9/1/2017 - 8/31/2021 | $325,000.00 | Taylor | | Berg-Kirkpatrick | David | | Bamman | Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh | PA | 15213-3815 | USA | 2017 | Computational Linguistics | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 325000 | 0 | 325000 | 0 | Implementation of three studies and creation of software tools that computationally analyze visual information about printed books. Partners include the Folger Shakespeare Library and the HathiTrust Research Center.
While humanistic inquiry traditionally involves synthesizing a rich set of contextual information, computational approaches to text analysis introduce several forms of simplification, beginning from the initial act of digitization. In this work, we advocate for an alternative that seeks to reason about text within a rich material context: as ink on paper. We propose new computational approaches to three tasks: using visual information about the physical layout of pages to segment the document structure of books in the HathiTrust; reconstructing lacunae (physical gaps in the medium of writing), and attributing and identifying compositors from visual cues in typesetting (using Shakespeare’s First Folio). Our core unifying principle is reasoning about text holistically—awareness of a text’s rich material context can not only shape the historical questions we ask of large-scale book corpora, but can also be informative for traditional tasks that text alone has been used to answer. |
HAA-256069-17 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Salem State University | Networking the Regional Comprehensives | 9/1/2017 - 8/31/2018 | $39,305.00 | Roopika | | Risam | | | | Salem State University | Salem | MA | 01970-5353 | USA | 2017 | Interdisciplinary Studies, Other | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 39305 | 0 | 39305 | 0 | The formation of a network of digital humanities practitioners at regional comprehensive universities. The network is intended to facilitate
collaboration and sharing of knowledge and resources among faculty, librarians,and students across the United States at smaller universities that offer less institutional support for computationally-intensive humanities projects.
Salem State University is proposing a Level I project, “Networking the Regional Comprehensives: Digital Humanities beyond the R1 and SLAC,” for the Digital Humanities Advancement Grants Program. The project initiates a much-needed national dialogue on the role of regional comprehensive universities in the field of digital humanities. The project’s short-term goal is bringing together national thinkers and digital humanities practitioners from regional comprehensive universities for a strategic conversation on developing a network to facilitate collaboration of regional comprehensive faculty, librarians, and students across the U.S. The long-term goal is to activate and grow this network so regional comprehensive digital humanities practitioners are better suited to share their knowledge and resources with each other and share their expertise with others across a range of institutions, including K12, community colleges, small liberal arts colleges, and research universities. |
HAA-256078-17 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Ohio State University | Named Entity Recognition For The Classical Languages For The Building Of A Catalog Of Ancient Peoples | 10/1/2017 - 12/31/2020 | $74,808.00 | Brian | Daniel | Joseph | Christopher | | Brown | Ohio State University | Columbus | OH | 43210-1349 | USA | 2017 | Computational Linguistics | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 74808 | 0 | 74808 | 0 | The creation of a catalog of individuals and groups of individuals mentioned in ancient sources, in part to focus attention on the historical role played by those other than the “great actors” (the important individuals, states, or empires singled out in historic texts). To do so, they will use Named Entity Recognition, a computational linguistics method which identifies people and place names in texts and then sorts them into pre-defined categories, allowing further study and analysis.
The Herodotos Project is creating a catalog of all groups of peoples mentioned in ancient sources, ultimately to assemble informational material for a detailed ethnohistoric profile of each. Our sources at first are Latin and Greek texts. Given the labor-intensive and time-consuming nature of manually searching texts in the original language, and for greater accuracy, we are automating the group name extraction process, drawing on Named Entity Recognition (NER) technology from computational linguistics to identify significant entities in a given text, including our target group names. Most NER systems are English-based, so we have been creating a Latin system that is successful (c. 90% accuracy) but needs more development to achieve even better results. Also, we must adapt our Latin-based system for use with Greek. The NER-development phase of the Project is an essential step towards furthering the creation of the catalogue that will fuel the ethnohistoric side of the overall project. |
HAA-256086-17 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Trustees of Dartmouth College | Exploring Archaeological Landscapes through Advanced Aerial Thermal Imaging | 9/1/2017 - 8/31/2021 | $324,930.00 | Jesse | J. | Casana | | | | Trustees of Dartmouth College | Hanover | NH | 03755-1808 | USA | 2017 | Archaeology | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 324930 | 0 | 324929.86 | 0 | A series of six case studies in locations in the United States and internationally to further methods in aerial thermography, an imaging process that allows non-destructive photography and data collection for archaeological sites.
Archaeologists have known since the 1970s that aerial thermal images can reveal a wide range of ancient cultural features including buried architecture, artifact concentrations, as well as roads, fields, and earthworks. Until recently, technological hurdles have largely prevented aerial thermography from being deployed in archaeological research, but our work on a Level II Start-Up grant brought together a small drone, a lightweight thermal camera, and photogrammetry software to explore new methods for aerial thermal surveys. The proposed project seeks to build on this success by using a newly developed radiometric thermal camera, improved drone technology and new processing methods to undertake a series of aerial thermal surveys at sites in the US, Mexico, Cyprus and Iraq. Results of the project have the potential to transform understanding of the various sites under investigation, and will develop a new set of protocols for collection and processing of thermal imagery in archaeology. |
HAA-256102-17 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Cornell University | Freedom on the Move: Advancing a Crowdsourced, Comprehensive Database of North American Runaway Slave Advertisements | 10/1/2017 - 9/30/2021 | $374,581.00 | Edward | E. | Baptist | William | C. | Block | Cornell University | Ithaca | NY | 14850-2820 | USA | 2017 | Women's History | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 324581 | 50000 | 322448.9 | 50000 | Implementation of Freedom on the Move, a public history resource that will offer a unified access point to 100,000 runaway slave advertisements published in American newspapers through the end of the Civil War. In addition, the project will develop tools for
students to engage with primary sources by transcribing the advertisements.
“Freedom on the Move” (FOTM) creates a digital resource from an estimated 100,000 runaway slave advertisements from pre-1865 U.S. newspapers. These ads, placed by enslavers when enslaved people attempted to escape, comprise one of the richest sources of information about enslaved individuals in United States history. The FOTM database, which will be freely available for browsing and research, is the first comprehensive collection of these ads. Using crowdsourcing to parse ad data into a database, FOTM enables new research analyses of the history of U.S. slavery. The prototype interface is already built. We seek funds to complete FOTM as a site for public engagement that supports lessons for K-12, university, and museum education. NEH implementation funding will enable us to build tools for analyzing and visualizing data, managing student interaction, engaging the public, and establishing a prototype for future digital resources. |
HAA-256122-17 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Johnson C. Smith University | Mapping the Historic West End: The Digital History of African American Neighborhoods in Charlotte, North Carolina | 9/1/2017 - 8/31/2019 | $69,039.00 | Brandon | | Lunsford | | | | Johnson C. Smith University | Charlotte | NC | 28216-5398 | USA | 2017 | History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 69039 | 0 | 69039 | 0 | The creation of content to populate a digital interactive map of a 150-year-old African American neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina that is undergoing significant social change and gentrification. The project is intended to allow community residents to participate in a large-scale effort to document and engage with the city’s history.
This project will create a web and mobile app framework for publishing location-based content including historical photographs, documents, and oral histories that will populate a digital interactive map. The map will document the Historic West End, a vibrant 150 year old African American community that surrounds the university on the west side of Charlotte, North Carolina and is currently faced with gentrification and social change. This project will expand the boundaries of how libraries can use mobile technology to bring visual history and users together, and will utilize a partnership between academic and public libraries, museums, government agencies, and community members that will provide a model for other small and historically black college and university libraries that seek to bring their local history alive in the digital age. |
HAA-256123-17 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Cornell University | Building a Decision Tree for Watermark Identification in Rembrandt's Etchings - The WIRE Project | 10/1/2017 - 3/31/2020 | $74,994.00 | Andrew | | Weislogel | C. Richard | | Johnson | Cornell University | Ithaca | NY | 14850-2820 | USA | 2017 | Art History and Criticism | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 74994 | 0 | 74994 | 0 | Development of a prototype tool to enhance museum and art historical research into the printmaking practices of Rembrandt and other artists.
This project seeks to creatively merge digital, computational, and art historical methodologies to significantly broaden access to crucial watermark information elucidating Rembrandt’s printing practice and chronology. Its central innovation is the use of the decision tree model, which allows rapid, confident visual identification of Rembrandt watermarks by non-specialists. The project will build interrogatory decision tree branches for each of the 54 types of watermarks on Rembrandt’s papers, resulting in a complete tree that will be coded into purpose-developed software. The project will also develop procedure to add new watermarks to the tree as they arise, and will lay the foundation for a watermarks database for Rembrandt’s etchings in U.S. collections. The decision tree will provide proof of concept for application to other research questions requiring visual differentiation in datasets too large for the unaided researcher but too small to recommend a machine-learning approach. |
HAA-256132-17 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Virginia Tech | Viral Networks: An Advanced Workshop in Digital Humanities and Medical History | 10/1/2017 - 12/31/2018 | $40,000.00 | Tom | | Ewing | | | | Virginia Tech | Blacksburg | VA | 24061-2000 | USA | 2017 | History, General | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 40000 | 0 | 39391.53 | 0 | An advanced workshop on incorporating digital humanities tools into medical history research. Preceded by a series of virtual meetings and activities, the two-day workshop will be held at the National Institutes of Health and will result in an open access publication of scholarly essays.
Viral Networks: An Advanced Workshop in Medical History and Digital Humanities will bring together scholars from the field of medical history whose research shows particular promise for making innovative use of methods, tools, and data from the digital humanities. Viral Networks will combine a face-to-face workshop in February 2018 at the National Institutes of Health with structured virtual editing activities that produce innovative scholarship. Workshop participants include twelve Contributing Scholars, each producing a chapter of original research; Consulting Scholars who are experts in network analysis; and an Advisory Board who will coordinate stages of collaborative writing, peer review, collective editing, and final publication in an open access and freely available scholarly platform. The requested funds will support travel costs for workshop participants; salaries for a Graduate Research Assistant and the Project Director; workshop costs; and honoraria for Consulting Scholars. |
HAA-256138-17 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Northeastern University | Mining Citation in Digital Humanities: A central bibliography of Digital Humanities Quarterly | 11/1/2017 - 4/30/2021 | $74,123.00 | Julia | Hammond | Flanders | | | | Northeastern University | Boston | MA | 02115-5005 | USA | 2017 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 74123 | 0 | 74075.78 | 0 | The further development of a centralized bibliography, a revised editorial workflow, and pilot citation analysis study for the scholarly journal Digital Humanities Quarterly.
Digital Humanities Quarterly seeks funding to complete the development of a centralized bibliography of digital humanities that will support the journal's publication and provide data for citation research and analysis. Building on an NEH-funded prototype, the project will expand the existing bibliography, enhance it with local authority control, and develop a streamlined workflow for maintaining the bibliography as part of the journal's regular production. A pilot research analysis will explore the potential of the data for rhetorical and citation analysis focusing on discipline formation and discursive practices in digital humanities. An exploratory interface for the bibliography will be integrated into the DHQ publication, and the data will also be exposed through a public API. |
HAA-256146-17 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Davidson College | Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde | 10/1/2017 - 3/31/2020 | $74,960.00 | Suzanne | W. | Churchill | Susan | B. | Rosenbaum | Davidson College | Davidson | NC | 28036-9405 | USA | 2017 | Literature, General | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 74960 | 0 | 74933.7 | 0 | A multimedia research project, including a public crowdsourcing component, exploring the work of early 20th century artist and writer Mina Loy.
A pressing need in digital humanities is for multimodal, user-directed narratives that situate evidence, interpretation, and arguments in ways that allow readers to understand the scholarly project. Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde is a scholarly website that charts the career of the 20th century writer and artist Mina Loy. Using Loy as a case study, our goals are to: provide access to and interpretations of Loy’s work in diverse media, using new digital modes of textual and visual expression to invite closer, more informed and interactive engagement; develop a theory of the en dehors garde (literally, “coming from the outside”) that accounts for contributions of women and people of color who have been excluded from conventional formulations of the avant-garde; and, conduct an experiment in public humanities scholarship that involves students in transforming scholarly methods and products, tests new processes for peer review, and sets UX design standards for digital scholarship. |
HAA-256158-17 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | George Mason University | Transcribing and Linking Early American Records with Scripto and Omeka S | 9/1/2017 - 8/31/2020 | $230,000.00 | Christopher | | Hamner | | | | George Mason University | Fairfax | VA | 22030-4444 | USA | 2017 | Public History | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 180000 | 50000 | 169997.92 | 50000 | An update and redesign of Scripto, which is a free, open-source tool used for collaborative online transcriptions of documents and multimedia files. This update will ensure it is compatible with Omeka S, a platform for publishing linked open data and integrating collections. In addition to this, the team will migrate the holdings in an important archive (The Papers of the War Department) to Omeka S and develop guidance to assist other cultural heritage organizations in managing their own community transcription projects.
RRCHNM seeks a Level III Digital Humanities Advancement Grant from the NEH-ODH to 1) update and redesign the Scripto transcription tool to make it compatible with the new data architecture in Omeka S; 2) migrate the substantial holdings in the Papers of the War Department collections to Omeka S; 3) and use the project as the basis for producing a number of publications and guides that will support other cultural heritage organizations in their efforts to develop community transcription projects with Scripto and Omeka S. |
HAA-256175-17 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | University of Virginia | The Development of Digital Documentary Editing Platforms | 9/1/2017 - 12/31/2018 | $18,236.00 | Jennifer | | Stertzer | Cathy | Moran | Hajo | University of Virginia | Charlottesville | VA | 22903-4833 | USA | 2017 | U.S. History | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 18236 | 0 | 17886.21 | 0 | A workshop for scholarly editors and software developers to discuss how the Omeka and Drupal digital platforms can better serve the needs of documentary editions.
The Center for Digital Editing will host a forum that will bring together editors and technical experts currently engaged with two open-source content management systems -- Omeka and Drupal -- during a two-day workshop to discuss the use, development, and distribution of options for creating and publishing digital documentary editions. Information generated at this workshop will be made available through a website and presented at professional meetings and institutes to promote feedback and discussion. |
HAA-256186-17 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Macalester College | Grenzenlos Deutsch: an Inclusive Curriculum for German Studies | 1/1/2018 - 6/30/2021 | $69,837.00 | Brigetta | | Abel | Amy | | Young | Macalester College | St. Paul | MN | 55105-1899 | USA | 2017 | German Language | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 69837 | 0 | 66380.09 | 0 | The creation of a digital open educational resource for German language and culture.
The applicants aim to produce an alternative to traditional textbooks by
developing an interactive and immersive environment for language and culture that makes use of videos and interviews with native and near-native
German speakers.
We seek a Level II grant to complete Grenzenlos Deutsch, an online, open-access curriculum for introductory German language and culture courses that creates an inclusive and interactive learning experience. The curriculum, started by Professors Brigetta (Britt) Abel and Amy Young during their sabbatical leaves in the fall of 2016, is intended as a no-cost alternative to current traditional textbooks in the field. Funding will be used primarily for the formation of a Collaborative Working Group of German faculty to assemble for further development and completion this full-year curriculum, which mixes materials from real-world, contemporary communication scenarios, multimedia content, and online learning activities. Firmly rooted in humanities, including language and culture, this curriculum will be openly available to German Studies teachers and learners worldwide, and our project will present a viable alternative to traditional textbooks across humanities fields. |
HAA-256187-17 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Association of Research Libraries | Integrating Digital Humanities into the Web of Scholarship with SHARE: An Exploration of Requirements | 9/1/2017 - 8/31/2019 | $75,000.00 | Judy | | Ruttenberg | Cynthia | | Hudson-Vitale | Association of Research Libraries | Washington | DC | 20036-1543 | USA | 2017 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 75000 | 0 | 75000 | 0 | A series of activities to adapt the SHared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE) platform that enhances the discoverability of scholarship for use by humanities faculty and librarians.
This project will develop a plan to optimize the SHARE aggregator and data set for digital humanities in consultation with scholars, institutions, and centers. A digital humanities project may produce more than one book or article manuscript, each published on a different publisher’s website, any number of pre-prints on institutional repositories or pre-print servers, data sets and code books on Dryad or Figshare, and text mining or cleaning scripts on github. Such project components may be housed semi-permanently in web-publishing platforms like Omeka without formal integration with library discovery systems or other services to link them to similar projects. The SHARE platform links scholarly activity across the research lifecycle and makes it available as enhanced, free, open metadata. The project team will administer a survey, conduct focus groups, and engage with the humanities community to detail requirements and prototype applications for digital scholarship curation. |
HAA-256218-17 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | University of Central Florida Board of Trustees | Documenting and Triaging Cultural Heritage (DATCH): Damage Assessment and Digital Preservation | 9/1/2017 - 8/31/2019 | $74,916.00 | Scott | | Branting | Lori | C. | Walters | University of Central Florida Board of Trustees | Orlando | FL | 32816-8005 | USA | 2017 | Interdisciplinary Studies, Other | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 74916 | 0 | 74915.05 | 0 | The development of open source software that will allow archaeologists, historians, and archivists to conduct rapid needs assessment of cultural heritage in conflict and non-conflict situations. The software will, when used in conjunction with mixed reality hardware (which merges both real and virtual worlds), allow users to quickly identify and document damage to structures and sites by providing overlays that compare real-time conditions against previously collected images.
The Documenting and Triaging Cultural Heritage (DATCH) project will develop prototype open-source software for field assessment and documentation of built and movable cultural heritage using mixed reality hardware with or without network connections. It will permit real-time overlay comparisons of cultural heritage against earlier documentation while also enabling the creation of new scaled drawings using gestures, even in field situations with no network connections. When network connections are available additional features such as video calls with specialists and data sharing with management systems will be enabled. DATCH will aid rapid needs assessments of cultural heritage in conflict situations, ongoing assessments of cultural heritage in the field, and enable field work across multiple disciplines. The prototype software will be developed and field tested with Microsoft’s HoloLens, but with a goal of cross-platform compatibility across head mounted display mixed reality devices. |
HAA-256224-17 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | UCLA; Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles | Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative Framework Update | 10/1/2017 - 6/30/2020 | $75,000.00 | Robert | Keith | Englund | | | | UCLA; Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles | Los Angeles | CA | 90024-4201 | USA | 2017 | Interdisciplinary Studies, Other | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 75000 | 0 | 75000 | 0 | An infrastructure update of the established Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative that focuses on improving sustainability and enhancing accessibility for both new users and the existing user community.
The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) is a 20-year strong international digital humanities project curating data and maintaining the largest database of artifacts inscribed with cuneiform writing from ancient Iraq and adjacent regions. The CDLI Framework Update is a consolidation project aimed at ensuring both the longevity of the CDLI data and interface, and at increasing access, usability, and accessibility to the information it curates. As part of numerous sub-projects, a wide array of technologies to provide software support have been used through the years. The CDLI Framework Update will consolidate actual features into a framework structure and prepare new data displays, including machine readable outputs, to enhance information diffusion. This update will strengthen digital structure of CDLI, facilitating maintenance and future developments, and increasing access to information about ancient cultures to actual and prospective audiences, including the disabled. |
HAA-256249-17 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Carnegie Mellon University | Supporting Cultural Heritage Research in Historic Photography Archives with Machine Learning and Computer Vision | 9/1/2017 - 2/29/2020 | $72,458.00 | Golan | | Levin | David | | Newbury | Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh | PA | 15213-3815 | USA | 2017 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 72458 | 0 | 72458 | 0 | The development of a set of prototype image identification tools and techniques to allow enhanced access to large photography archives. The Carnegie Museum of Art’s Charles “Teenie” Harris Archive of African American life in Pittsburgh would serve as
the test collection.
We address the challenges faced in the research and annotation of large digital image archives by creating prototype software tools that use machine learning and computer vision. Specifically, we are developing software tools to aid research into the Carnegie Museum of Art’s publicly available Teenie Harris Archive, a major photography collection documenting 20th century African American life in Pittsburgh. Our goal is to create open-source software that uses state-of-the-art techniques to help identify and annotate visually distinctive features across this large (80,000 item) set of digitized photographs, to improve and expedite the Museum's archiving and cataloging process. Through compatibility with International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) standards, our project will furthermore provide free tools and reproducible, computer-vision based workflows that other museums, libraries and archives can use to help organize their own digital collections. |
HAA-256368-17 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Old Dominion University Research Foundation | Visualizing Webpage Changes Over Time | 10/1/2017 - 3/31/2020 | $75,000.00 | Michele | C. | Weigle | Michael | L | Nelson | Old Dominion University Research Foundation | Norfolk | VA | 23508-0369 | USA | 2017 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 75000 | 0 | 75000 | 0 | The development of prototypes for a set of open-source visualization tools to ease navigation of web archive collections. Partners include the New York Art Resources Consortium and Columbia University Libraries.
As web archives grow in importance and size, techniques for understanding how a web page changes through time need to adapt from an assumption of scarcity (just a few copies of a page, no more than a few weeks or months apart) to one of abundance (tens of thousands of copies of a page, spanning as much as 20 years). Old Dominion University, New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC), and Columbia University Libraries (CUL) will jointly research and develop tools for efficient visualization of and interaction with archived web pages. We will develop 1) a tool for visualizing web page changes in arbitrary web archives, 2) a plug-in for the popular Wayback Machine web archiving system (for better support of the functionality otherwise available via #1), and 3) scripts for easy embedding of the visualizations in live web pages, providing tighter integration of the archived web and live web. This work will be informed and in support of CUL's and NYARC's existing web archiving activities. |
HAA-258602-18 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Gettysburg College | Documenting the Ethnobiology of Mexico and Central America: A Digital Portal for Collaborative Research | 1/1/2018 - 6/30/2020 | $74,875.00 | Jonathan | D. | Amith | | | | Gettysburg College | Gettysburg | PA | 17325-1483 | USA | 2017 | Anthropology | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 74875 | 0 | 74875 | 0 | The
further development of a database and web portal that would aggregate
indigenous linguistic information relevant to Mesoamerican flora and fauna.
This project will develop a web portal, Documenting the Ethnobiology of Mexico and Central America, designed to forge an innovative web-based environment for multidisciplinary and multiethnic collaboration among anthropologists and linguists studying traditional ecological knowledge; biologists interested in collections mostly from poorly explored areas; and Indigenous communities and scholars who want to document and preserve traditional knowledge of local flora and fauna. This project will expand Symbiota, a widely used open source content management system for curating specimen- and observation-based biodiversity data, for use by humanities scholars and professionals by developing standards for tagging ethnobiological data, data that crosses thresholds separating the humanities, social science and natural science. By making available research on native nomenclature, classification, and use of flora and fauna, it will disseminate material key to understanding the cultural history of Indigenous Mexican populations. |
HAA-258706-18 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | University of California, Berkeley | Applying Named Entity Recognition to Explore Louisiana Slave Conspiracies | 1/1/2018 - 6/30/2020 | $75,000.00 | Bryan | E. | Wagner | | | | University of California, Berkeley | Berkeley | CA | 94704-5940 | USA | 2017 | English | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 75000 | 0 | 75000 | 0 | Frameworks for linking and analyzing documents dealing with slave
conspiracies (defined as planned or actual insurrections against slave owners)
to help resolve questions and uncertainties in historical accounts.
We are a multidisciplinary research project dedicated to preserving, digitizing, transcribing, translating, publishing, and analyzing manuscripts from three Louisiana slave conspiracies. We are presenting these manuscripts, with original transcription and translation, alongside interactive, data-driven maps in an effort to address essential but still unresolved questions about the organization of social relations and the circulation of ideas in these conspiracies. |
HAA-258712-18 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Stanford University | The Global Medieval Sourcebook | 5/1/2018 - 8/31/2020 | $74,393.00 | Kathryn | | Starkey | | | | Stanford University | Stanford | CA | 94305-2004 | USA | 2017 | Literature, Other | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 74393 | 0 | 74393 | 0 | The further development of the Global Medieval Sourcebook, an open-source resource for transcriptions, translations, and contextual information about digitized medieval texts from Europe, North Africa, and Asia. This project adds new content, expands the available languages, integrates TEI markup, and develops new pedagogical features.
The Global Medieval Sourcebook, a teaching and research resource, will present transcriptions of original medieval texts and their translations in an accessible, user-friendly, downloadable, open-source format. It will include information about each text, including a scholarly and user-friendly commentary on the text and translation. Links to online manuscripts and other relevant materials will enable scholars to use the site as a research portal and will provide essential context to students and teachers. Texts will be searchable by genre, author, date, language, keywords, and themes. Additionally, with teachers and students in mind, we will create and upload audio files of specialists reading the texts in their original language. Currently we are able to cover the following languages: Middle High German, Old French, Old and Middle English, and Medieval Chinese, Arabic, and Persian. In the next two years, we will expand to include medieval Spanish and Italian, with Slavic languages anticipated for addition in the next phase. |
HAA-258717-18 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Utah State University | The London Stage Database | 1/1/2018 - 6/30/2019 | $74,970.00 | Mattie | | Burkert | | | | Utah State University | Logan | UT | 84322-1400 | USA | 2017 | Theater History and Criticism | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 74970 | 0 | 64654.41 | 0 | The
recovery and revitalization of a unique and important database, supported by
NEH and other funders in the 1970s, containing information on theater and
popular culture in London in the long eighteenth century (1660-1800).
Obsolescence is a serious issue facing the digital humanities today. Projects can take years to complete, by which time the data and software are out of step with current platforms and file formats. We propose to recover an NEH-funded humanities computing project completed in the 1970s: the London Stage Information Bank. In addition to revitalizing and making available a database of great interest to scholars of eighteenth-century British culture, this project will address three broader goals: (1) model best practices for recovering obsolete digital projects; (2) make visible the Information Bank’s underlying assumptions about the nature of the data itself, fostering awareness of the theoretical underpinnings of humanities databases used today that were begun in the early decades of humanities computing; and (3) create a platform that can interface with other digitization and data collection projects now underway, enabling the future growth of a network of related databases and tools. |
HAA-258754-18 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | University of Pennsylvania | DH from an Indigenous Perspective: Strengthening Partnerships between Indigenous Communities, Scholars, Museums, and Archives | 1/1/2018 - 9/30/2022 | $74,622.00 | Christina | E. | Frei | | | | University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | PA | 19104-6205 | USA | 2017 | Native American Studies | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 74622 | 0 | 57868.52 | 0 | The study of how four Indigenous communities, with whom this team
collaborated on a Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant to digitally repatriate
archival materials, have used those materials in culture and language
revitalization efforts.
This grant proposes to study how four Indigenous partners built digital
archives based on Indigenous epistemologies and how they are using the
materials for cultural and language revitalization. The grant will also support
DH projects being constructed by the four communities using the digitally
repatriated materials, which reflect how DH tools and theories take on very
different forms when incorporated into Indigenous knowledge systems. |
HAA-258756-18 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Gallaudet University | Exposing the Borders of Academia: Sign Language as a Medium of Knowledge Production, Preservation, and Dissemination | 1/1/2018 - 2/28/2023 | $323,479.00 | Patrick | | Boudreault | | | | Gallaudet University | Washington | DC | 20002-3600 | USA | 2017 | Interdisciplinary Studies, Other | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 323479 | 0 | 322083.53 | 0 | Improvements to the technological infrastructure of the Deaf Studies Digital Journal (DSDJ) to implement a fully bilingual digital platform for use by both signers and non-signers. The project also increases access to and sustainability of DSDJ content and supports refinements to the peer review process in American Sign Language.
The Deaf Studies Digital Journal (DSDJ) is a peer-reviewed, digital journal in American Sign Language and English text dedicated to advancing the cultural, creative and critical output of work in and about sign languages and its communities. DSDJ publishes work in the form of scholarly video articles, original works of signed literature, as well as interviews, reviews, and historical resources. This project will preserve and migrate past issues of DSDJ to a new open-access, technologically sustainable platform that adheres to and advances accessibility standards in publishing through fully bilingual video and text articles, advanced interactive videos, and integration into library databases. Furthermore, the project develops innovative peer-review processes that support the exclusive use of sign language to produce the next iteration of DSDJ in an effort to transform scholarly communication. |
HAA-258763-18 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Baylor University | Digital Floor Plan Database: A New Method for Analyzing Architecture | 1/1/2018 - 1/31/2020 | $72,390.00 | Elise | | King | King-Ip (David) | | Lin | Baylor University | Waco | TX | 76798-7284 | USA | 2017 | Architecture | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 72390 | 0 | 59457.22 | 0 | The
continued development of a prototype of an analytical tool and database to
allow humanities scholars and students to comparatively study architectural
floor plans. The test case would be a collection of floor plans by American
architect Frank Lloyd Wright from the Alexander Architectural Archives at the
University of Texas, Austin.
Currently, those who design and study the built environment are hindered by an inability to examine large datasets of architectural drawings. Despite advancements in image recognition, no integrated system is capable of storing, reading, and analyzing floor plans. To solve this problem, this project is developing the Building Database & Analytics System (BuDAS) to partially automate the process of floor plan analysis. This project is seeking funding to expand the prototype into an integrated open source system with image recognition software for automatic floor plan detection, a database for the storage and management of data, and advanced query and graphing tools. BuDAS will allow users to compare thousands of plans to discover common design elements, examine spatial relationships over time, and mine for patterns across datasets. These findings will allow for a deeper understanding of the trends and patterns of space usage and the relationship between buildings and human experience. |
HAA-258767-18 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | University of Notre Dame | Tesserae Intertext Service: Intertextual Search Access to Digital Collections in the Humanities | 1/1/2018 - 7/31/2020 | $279,609.00 | Walter | J. | Scheirer | Neil | | Coffee | University of Notre Dame | Notre Dame | IN | 46556-4635 | USA | 2017 | Classics | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 279609 | 0 | 279609 | 0 | The
further development of the Tesserae search engine to be used with additional
online collections to enhance research into intertextuality.
From its inception in 2008, with support of an NEH ODH Start-Up Grant in 2012-2013, the Tesserae Project has developed a uniquely successful approach to tracing literary, linguistic, and intellectual history in ancient Greek and Roman literature, as well as a selection of English texts. The Tesserae web tool (http://tesserae.caset.buffalo.edu/) allows users to automatically find instances where one author quotes or alludes to another, or employs similar concepts. This project will support the creation of the Tesserae Intertext Service (TIS). TIS will make the Tesserae search capability available as a new and sophisticated way of accessing the many existing humanities texts that have been digitized, showing all the similarities between the works selected by a user. TIS opens the door for scholars, students, and the general public to answer fundamental questions about the human condition that require traversing languages, genres, and histories in expansive digital collections. |
HAA-258768-18 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | University of Virginia | Literature in Context: An Open Anthology | 1/1/2018 - 12/31/2019 | $72,542.00 | John | | O'Brien | Tonya | | Howe | University of Virginia | Charlottesville | VA | 22903-4833 | USA | 2017 | British Literature | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 72542 | 0 | 66779.91 | 0 | Development of a working prototype for an open-access, curated, and classroom-sourced digital anthology of British and American literature in English (1650-1800).
Literature in Context is a TEI-encoded digital anthology of British and American literature in English (1650-1800) designed for use by students, teachers, and the general public. The project will innovate by taking full advantage of the affordances of digitization to create an Open Educational Resource that incorporates annotation, interactivity, digitized page images of original editions, and other contextual media materials. It also develops templates, assignments, and resources to help instructors at the college level engage students in the task of editing and annotating literary texts that can be added to the collection. Literature in Context provides a mechanism for the thoughtful, collaborative dissemination of our shared humanistic heritage. By including students in the production of the anthology, the project will foreground how the public construction of knowledge is essential to understanding the modern world. |
HAA-258779-18 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | George Mason University | Omeka S ORCID Integration | 1/1/2018 - 12/31/2018 | $39,076.00 | Patrick | | Murray-John | | | | George Mason University | Fairfax | VA | 22030-4444 | USA | 2017 | History, General | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 39076 | 0 | 34072.47 | 0 | The
development of modules for the Omeka-S publishing platform to allow integration
with the ORCID system of persistent researcher identifiers. The project would
increase the number of humanities scholars in the United States using this
system for reliably identifying humanities research publications.
The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media proposes an integration between Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) and Omeka S, a widely-used platform for publishing humanities content online. Omeka S puts special emphasis on the needs of small- to medium-sized institutions and integration with other systems and Linked Open Data (LOD). ORCID provides a global, standardized mechanism for reliably identifying scholars and researchers and for providing metadata about them via unique identifiers. ORCID data, however, is currently overwhelmingly tilted toward researchers in the sciences. This integration will encourage humanists to register an identifier with ORCID, fostering new connections between humanists' research. Thus, Omeka S would both augment ORCID's goal of "enabl[ing] transparent and trustworthy connections between researchers, their contributions, and affiliations" within the humanities, and it would expand the utility of Omeka S for users and data aggregators. |
HAA-258799-18 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Northwestern University | Tools for Listening to Texts-in-Performance | 1/1/2018 - 6/30/2019 | $75,000.00 | Neil | Kanwar Harish | Verma | Marit | | MacArthur | Northwestern University | Evanston | IL | 60208-0001 | USA | 2017 | Communications | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 75000 | 0 | 74999.99 | 0 | The development of tools to allow humanistic researchers to
analyze recorded literary and cultural materials ranging from poems, radio
plays, and books to political speeches and sermons.
Audio archives provide tremendous resources for studying
texts-in-performance, performance styles, and media history and formats. Such
research requires tools that work well on low-quality, noisy audio common in
humanities research, e.g., poetry readings, radio plays, and talking books, the
datasets for this project. The proposed project will develop, provide access
to, and support humanistic research using two state-of-the-art, open-source,
user-friendly tools, Gentle and Drift. Drawing on advanced speech recognition
and signal processing algorithms, Gentle and Drift visualize and quantify
prosodic, expressive features of speech, including pitch range, intonation
patterns, intensity, and rhythm. The project will also train a network of
scholars in using these tools, and solicit and apply their feedback to develop
new features to fit their needs. In so doing, the project will provide
practical tools, broaden the community of users and develop new digital
humanities research on sound.
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HAA-258807-18 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus | Caribbean Diaspora: Panorama of Carnival Practices | 1/1/2018 - 6/30/2020 | $40,000.00 | Nadjah | | Rios-Villarini | Mirerza | | González-Vélez | University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus | San Juan | PR | 00925-2512 | USA | 2017 | Ethnic Studies | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 40000 | 0 | 40000 | 0 | Early planning for a project to explore migration and the Caribbean diaspora through the lens of cultural practices related to Carnival. Coordinated through a series of meetings and drawing on multiple archival collections, the project will produce a website for public audiences and a white paper.
This project aims to initiate new approaches to inquiries on migration at the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras (UPR-RP) that can be digitally shared with a broader audience, particularly those of the Caribbean and its diasporas. Project activities and outcomes will be: (1) to hold a series of discussion-based meetings between external digital humanities specialists and local librarian and Caribbean scholars to design an interactive, general audience website on Caribbean mobility as evidenced in Carnival; (2) to generate a preliminary webpage that includes curated content using existing digital audiovisual materials and artifacts related to Caribbean Carnivals in the UPR archives, the Puerto Rico Foundation for the Humanities, the original Project Diaspora website, University of Florida’s Digital Library of the Caribbean, and other sources; and (3) to produce a final white paper documenting the development process with implications so that digital humanities scholars can benefit. |
HAA-258826-18 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Monticello | Expanding the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery Research Consortium | 3/1/2018 - 2/28/2023 | $375,000.00 | Jillian | E. | Galle | Worthy | N. | Martin | Monticello | Charlottesville | VA | 22902-0316 | USA | 2017 | Archaeology | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 325000 | 50000 | 325000 | 50000 | Major
infrastructure improvements to the multi-institutional Digital Archaeological
Archive of Comparative Slavery.
Over the past two decades, archaeologists have struggled to discover how the web can help them collaborate across institutional boundaries to generate accurate and commensurate data, share them publicly, and analyze them to advance our understanding of human history. This proposal from the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery, based at Monticello, offers linked social and digital strategies that can meet these challenges in the archaeological study of early-modern slave societies. The project seeks Level III funding to enhance proven open-source software (www.daaacrc.org) and training programs that provide our collaborators with flexibility in how they collect data and share it with diverse stakeholders. The project will optimize search and navigation on the DAACS website (www.daacs.org) to accommodate a 10-fold increase in the number of archaeological sites represented. The project would demonstrate how a core facility like DAACS can leverage collaboration among researchers working in diverse institutions. |
HAA-261070-18 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | University of Texas, Austin | Transparency to Visibility (T2V): Network Visualization in Humanities Research | 9/1/2018 - 2/29/2020 | $80,649.00 | Samuel | Scott | Graham | | | | University of Texas, Austin | Austin | TX | 78712-0100 | USA | 2018 | Composition and Rhetoric | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 80649 | 0 | 78054.53 | 0 | The development of a set of tools to automatically extract and visualize relationships in large textual corpora, with a focus on making “hidden” relationships more visible.
Humanities researchers have long studied how power and influence circulate through cultural systems. Advances in network visualization tools support this work, allowing scholars to create graphical representations of complex systems. However, extracting and preparing relational data for visualization can present significant technological challenges when working with the kinds of textual artifacts commonly studied by humanists. This project will develop and test an innovative approach for efficiently curating and visualizing relationships in ways that align with humanities research. Using sample texts from medical research, a digital and medical humanities team will develop, test, and enhance a new toolkit for automatically extracting and visualizing relationships in large textual corpora. The project team will create both a graphical user interface for the toolkit and an open-source code repository to support use by digital humanities scholars. |
HAA-261101-18 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | George Mason University | World History Commons | 10/1/2018 - 9/30/2021 | $375,000.00 | Kelly | | Schrum | Jessica | | Otis | George Mason University | Fairfax | VA | 22030-4444 | USA | 2018 | History, General | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 325000 | 50000 | 325000 | 50000 | Digital revitalization and content upgrades for World History Matters, a free-to-use educational web resource for teaching world history.
World History Commons, a Level III grant, will provide an essential digital resource for teaching and research in world and global history, reviving and expanding World History Matters, the award-winning, NEH-funded collection of world history websites now almost twenty years old. Using robust, modular, and extendable open-source software, this Open Educational Resource (OER) will preserve and enhance widely-used resources while introducing new humanities scholarship and pedagogy. World History Commons represents a ground-breaking collaboration between the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, the World History Association, and Monash University (Australia) which runs one of the largest world history programs in the southern hemisphere. World History Commons will provide a free, centralized, digital, world history platform with high quality, peer-reviewed resources for high school and higher education students, teachers, and scholars. |
HAA-261214-18 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | California State University | Mapping Indigenous American Cultures and Living Histories | 9/1/2018 - 2/28/2021 | $50,000.00 | Janet | Berry | Hess | | | | California State University | Rohnert Park | CA | 94928-3609 | USA | 2018 | Cultural History | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 50000 | 0 | 50000 | 0 | A prototype digital map of three indigenous American nations that will document their geographic ranges, languages, architectural styles, and cultural practices both before and after contact with European settlers.
This Level I project will create the prototype of a digital map of pre- and post-contact American Indian tribal and national regions, cultural histories, and tribally submitted and approved data that is non-archaeological in nature. The prototype, upon completion, will consist of a national map with general information and dynamic details related to three indigenous nations: the Osage, Modoc, and the consolidated Pomo/Miwok. This map will be available to scholars and the public, and envisions future collaboration with, and a centralized reference site for, existing indigenous maps and digital sites. We intend in this project to connect the study of humanities (specifically, indigenous histories and cultures) to conditions of social and cultural life by enabling the public, around the world, to access current and historical maps, cultural practices, and other data related to the life of indigenous peoples. |
HAA-261218-18 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Miami University | Breath of Life 2.0: Indigenous Language Revitalization through Enhancement of the Miami-Illinois Digital Archive | 9/1/2018 - 8/31/2022 | $311,641.00 | Kara | | Strass | Gabriela | | Perez Baez | Miami University | Oxford | OH | 45056-1846 | USA | 2018 | Languages, Other | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 311641 | 0 | 311641 | 0 | The expansion and improvement of an existing digital archive for indigenous languages, the development of software to identify and analyze archival materials, and two training workshops for tribal representatives and scholars engaged in language revitalization efforts.
The Miami-Illinois Digital Archive (MIDA) is critical to the educational development of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma’s language revitalization efforts: it is the only software for the organization, storage, retrieval and analysis of digital surrogates of archival language documentation. The proposed Breath of Life 2.0: Creating a ‘Second Breath’ for Indigenous Language Revitalization (BoL 2.0) project will enhance the proven functionality of MIDA by providing a stable and secure data platform to share this powerful tool with Native American communities engaged in archivally-based research and analysis for language revitalization. The resulting Indigenous Languages Digital Archive will be disseminated in two one-week training workshops for alumni from the National Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages who seek to engage in the type of advanced archivally-based research that has enabled languages such as Miami-Illinois to be spoken again after decades of silence. |
HAA-261228-18 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Temple University | Developing the Data Set of Nineteenth-Century Knowledge | 9/1/2018 - 2/28/2021 | $111,597.00 | Peter | | Logan | Jane | | Greenberg | Temple University | Philadelphia | PA | 19122-6003 | USA | 2018 | Intellectual History | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 111597 | 0 | 111597 | 0 | A project to study the structure and transformation of nineteenth-century knowledge via computational analysis of several editions of the Encyclopedia Britannica from 1788 to 1911.
This project draws on historic editions of the Encyclopedia Britannica, a vital resource of knowledge to build one of the most extensive, open, digital collections available today for studying the structure of nineteenth-century knowledge and its transformation. The most comprehensive representation extant of what constituted official knowledge at the time, they also demonstrate changes in the nature of knowledge in the English-speaking world. The project creates the first accurate textual data for this corpus and extends its usability by applying innovative methods to automatically generate metadata for each of the 100,000 entries. Each entry will be tagged with both current and historical subject categories. At the end of the grant period, all of the data will be made freely available, and a series of experiments will be conducted to identify the feasibility of tracking concept drift across time within the corpus. |
HAA-261239-18 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | University of Richmond | Distant Viewing Toolkit (DVT) for the Cultural Analysis of Moving Images | 10/1/2018 - 4/30/2022 | $99,984.00 | Lauren | | Tilton | Taylor | | Arnold | University of Richmond | Richmond | VA | 23173-0001 | USA | 2018 | Media Studies | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 99984 | 0 | 93090.57 | 0 | The development of an open source software library that will allow scholars, teachers, and students to analyze time-based media including films, news broadcasts, and television programs.
This project allows scholars to work with large-scale collections by building an open source software library to facilitate the algorithmic production of metadata summarizing the content (e.g., shot angle, shot length, lighting, framing, sound) of time-based media. The software allows scholars to explore media in many forms, including films, new broadcasts, and television, revealing how moving images shape cultural norms. |
HAA-261240-18 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | University of South Carolina | Evolution in Digital Discourse: Toward a Computational Tool for Identifying Patterns of Language Change in Social Media | 9/1/2018 - 9/30/2020 | $89,566.00 | Seung | Mo | Jang | Jijun | | Tang | University of South Carolina | Columbia | SC | 29208-0001 | USA | 2018 | Communications | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 89566 | 0 | 82289.05 | 0 | The development of an open access, user-friendly tool to allow scholars and the public to study and document the spread and evolution of information shared over social media networks.
As a team of humanities scholars and computer scientists, we aim to produce a computational tool for analyzing how digital dialogue originates, spreads, and changes as dialogue texts are widely circulated and shared across social media platforms. Unlike prior social media network analyses, this project seeks to develop and disseminate a tool for humanities scholars by allowing them to observe, track, and identify text-level evolutions over the spreading and sharing process in digital communities. With this tool, scholars will be able to analyze how and why the linguistic structure of social media texts as well as their authenticated status can undergo meaningful changes over the course of their broad circulation. |
HAA-261249-18 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Trustees of Indiana University, Indianapolis | Implementing an Online Text-Editing Platform for Scholarly Editions | 10/1/2018 - 4/30/2022 | $277,320.00 | Andre | | De Tienne | | | | Trustees of Indiana University, Indianapolis | Indianapolis | IN | 46202-3288 | USA | 2018 | Interdisciplinary Studies, Other | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 277320 | 0 | 277302.36 | 0 | The further development of the online Scholarly Text-Editing Platform for the production of print and digital critical and documentary editions.
Following a successful NEH start-up grant, we propose to implement a cloud-based Scholarly Text-Editing Platform (STEP). That platform is a complete workflow environment designed by scholarly editors, interface specialists, and web and application developers, for facilitating the production of print and online critical or documentary scholarly editions. STEP helps (1) facilitate rigorous TEI-XML transcriptions through timesaving encoding methods; (2) import digitized images of original documents; (3) compile textual apparatus lists; (4) enable the online scholarly editing, annotating, and formatting of texts in an interface that keeps track of and archives every iteration of a document through multiple stages of corrections and editorial interventions; (5) link edited texts and their components both to the digitized documents and to their critical editorial apparatus; and (6) streamline the conversion of edited texts to laid-out and hyperlinked texts for online or print publication. |
HAA-261258-18 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | American University | Hearing Bach's Music As Bach Heard It | 12/1/2018 - 1/31/2022 | $50,000.00 | Braxton | | Boren | | | | American University | Washington | DC | 20016-8200 | USA | 2018 | Music History and Criticism | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 50000 | 0 | 50000 | 0 | The recreation of acoustic conditions of the Thomaskirche (St. Thomas Church) in Leipzig, where J.S. Bach worked as a concert master, to better understand the relationship between the acoustic clarity of the physical space and Bach’s compositions.
Research on J. S. Bach has revealed new insights into the clarity and intimacy of Bach’s music as it was originally performed, including the possibility that Bach’s repertoire at Leipzig was mainly performed with only four singers in the choir. But Bach’s music was also profoundly shaped by the notable acoustics of the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, where he spent the last 27 years of his life. The church was altered during the Lutheran Reformation to improve the acoustics of the spoken word, which also increased the acoustic clarity for Bach’s works two centuries later. This project will use physical measurements and computer simulations to recreate the acoustic conditions as they existed both during Bach’s time as well as the more reverberant pre-Reformation church. Using this data, we will record a Bach cantata inside the virtual Thomaskirche, both in Bach’s time and before. This will allow us to examine the relationship between the acoustic clarity of the church and Bach's music. |
HAA-261261-18 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | University of Virginia | Linked Open Greek Pottery | 9/1/2018 - 6/30/2021 | $85,382.00 | Tyler Jo | | Smith | | | | University of Virginia | Charlottesville | VA | 22903-4833 | USA | 2018 | Arts, General | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 85382 | 0 | 85250.12 | 0 | The development of a model for aggregating information about dispersed
collections of ancient Greek pottery based on the concepts of linked open data
to provide greater access to the collections and to allow new ways of analyzing
the materials.
Linked Open Greek Pottery: Kerameikos.org is an international effort to define the intellectual concepts of Archaic and Classical Greek pottery following the methodologies of Linked Open Data (LOD). These concepts include categories such as shapes, artists, styles, and production places. When linked externally to other LOD thesauri, such as the Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus, Kerameikos.org allows for the normalization and aggregation of disparate museum and archaeological datasets into an information system that facilitates broader public access (e.g., Pelagios Commons). Beyond the definition of pottery concepts, following open web standards, Kerameikos.org will standardize and document an ontology and model for exchanging pottery data, provide easy-to-use interfaces to visualize geographic and quantitative distributions of Greek pottery, and publish a series of data manipulation web services enabling archaeologists and museum professionals to contribute data to this ecosystem. |