HT-231812-15 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Indiana/Purdue University, Indianapolis | The Digital Native American and Indigenous Studies Project | 1/1/2016 - 1/31/2018 | $249,817.00 | Jennifer | E. | Guiliano | | | | Indiana/Purdue University, Indianapolis | Indianapolis | IN | 46202-5148 | USA | 2015 | Native American Studies | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 249817 | 0 | 210921.27 | 0 | Three three-day workshops of 35 participants each hosted by Yale University, Northern Arizona University, and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) on teaching new digital methods and exploring issues of preservation and access in Native American Studies.
The Digital Native American studies Project (DNSP) proposes to offer three three-day workshops that will educate participants on issues of digital humanities research and methodology in the context of Native American Studies. Native American Studies, an interdisciplinary field of study exploring the history, culture, politics, issues, and contemporary experience of indigenous peoples of America, intersects with a number of issues related to access, preservation, and methodology that are problematized through the development and deployment of digital tools and methods and the conduct of digital research. While tremendous work has been done around the preservation and access of analog materials within Native American communities, there has been much less attention paid to the ways in which digital objects, practices, and methods function within Native communities and through Native American Studies scholarship outside of the anthropological context. Each three-day long workshop will serve thirty-five participants drawn from academic, cultural heritage, and tribal communities. |
HT-231816-15 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | George Mason University | Doing Digital History 2016: An Institute for Mid-Career American Historians | 10/1/2015 - 3/31/2017 | $219,301.00 | Sharon | M. | Leon | Sheila | A. | Brennan | George Mason University | Fairfax | VA | 22030-4444 | USA | 2015 | History, General | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 219301 | 0 | 200651.21 | 0 | A two-week institute for 25 historians of the United States, to be hosted by George Mason University’s Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, on advanced theory and application of new media tools for teaching and scholarship.
In the August 2014, twenty-three mid-career digital novices came to George Mason University (GMU) for the two-week intensive summer institute, Doing Digital History, organized by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM). Experts in their field of American history, these novices in digital methodologies were nervous, unsure of their own abilities, and intimidated by digital history. They all left as confident digital ambassadors with new skills, insights, and motivation to pursue digital work and become active participants in the growing community of digital humanists. Because of this success, and due to a continued need in the field, RRCHNM requests support from the National Endowment for the Humanities to organize Doing Digital History: 2016, a second Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities (IATDH), during the summer of 2016 to serve a cohort of twenty-five established, mid-career American history faculty and public historians. |
HT-231824-15 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Purdue University | Space and Place in Africana/Black Studies: An Institute on Spatial Humanities, Theories, Methods and Practice | 10/1/2015 - 9/30/2017 | $245,299.00 | Kim | | Gallon | Angel | David | Nieves | Purdue University | West Lafayette | IN | 47907-2040 | USA | 2015 | African American History | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 245299 | 0 | 245299 | 0 | A three-week summer institute and a follow-up workshop for 20 participants to explore spatial approaches to Africana Studies. The institute would be hosted by Purdue University and the follow-up workshop would be held at Hamilton College.
Hosted by the African American Studies & Research Center (AARC) at Purdue University, this two-year long institute beginning the summer of 2016 is designed to advance knowledge in Africana/Black Studies by affording 20 early and mid-career Africana/Black Studies scholars, graduate students and librarians an opportunity to think critically about the relationship and intersections between Africana Studies and the spatial humanities. To that end, the Institute is concerned with helping participants to think spatially, to internalize the concept of space, and to develop spatial literacies. The Institute will also advance digital and spatial humanities approaches among Africana/Black Studies scholars. Participants will explore key topics in spatial humanities and will be introduced to a breadth of geospatial technologies. The web-based platform, BlackDH.org (www.blackdh.org) will serve as a clearinghouse and portal for scholarly discussions that will grow out of the Institute. |
HT-250993-16 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | President and Fellows of Middlebury College | Scholarship in Sound and Image | 9/1/2016 - 12/31/2018 | $241,001.00 | Jason | | Mittell | Christian | Michael | Keathley | President and Fellows of Middlebury College | Middlebury | VT | 05753-6004 | USA | 2016 | Film History and Criticism | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 241001 | 0 | 216604.3 | 0 | Two two-week workshops for 15 participants each
on the study of time-based media like video and audio in multimodal humanities
scholarship. The first instance of the workshop would be for advanced graduate
students, while the second instance would be targeted toward humanities faculty
and professionals.
In June 2015, we hosted a highly successful workshop, “Scholarship in Sound and Image,” funded by a grant from the NEH’s Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities (IATDH). This workshop brought together 14 scholars of film and media studies to learn how to produce videographic criticism that incorporates sound and moving images via digital technologies. We are again applying for an IATDH grant, this time to support a pair of two-week workshops, in June 2017 and June 2018. The workshops – whose curriculum is based on a course that has been successfully taught four times at Middlebury College, in addition to the successful IATDH workshop in 2015 – is designed for 15 participants whose objects of study involve audio-visual media, especially film, radio, television, and other new digital media forms. The two iterations of the workshop will subdivide the participants, inviting Ph.D. students in 2017, and faculty or postdocs in 2018. |
HT-251001-16 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | University of Pittsburgh | Make your edition: models and methods for digital textual scholarship | 9/1/2016 - 9/30/2018 | $156,251.00 | David | J. | Birnbaum | | | | University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh | PA | 15260-6133 | USA | 2016 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 156251 | 0 | 156251 | 0 | A three-week summer institute on the theory and
development of digital scholarly editions for 25 participants to be hosted at
the University of Pittsburgh.
The digital scholarly edition is more than a reading text with links and annotations. The digital scholarly edition is an integrated platform for performing research, and digital textual scholarship advances as this platform comes to support new types of inquiry The Institute will train 25 participants who already know how to mark up their texts (in TEI XML or similarly) to participate directly in the technological conceptualization and implementation of their editions, empowering them to undertake philological work that is informed by an understanding of what is possible technically, and of how to achieve it. This training responds to the risk of miscommunication or missed opportunity in collaborative situations where no participant in a project understands fully both the textual and the technological issues involved in designing and building a digital scholarly edition. |
HT-251006-16 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Folger Shakespeare Library admin by Trustees of Amherst College | Folger Shakespeare Library's "Early Modern Digital Agendas: Network Analysis (EMDA2017)" institute | 9/1/2016 - 9/30/2018 | $170,000.00 | Edwin | | Williams | | | | Folger Shakespeare Library admin by Trustees of Amherst College | Washington | DC | 20003-1004 | USA | 2016 | Renaissance Studies | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 170000 | 0 | 170000 | 0 | A
two-week summer institute and follow-up workshop for 12 participants to explore
network analysis approaches to early modern studies. The institute would be
hosted at the Folger Shakespeare Library with a variety of visiting experts.
The Folger Institute proposes to host a two-week institute on “Early Modern Digital Agendas: Network Analysis” in summer 2017 (EMDA2017). Under the direction of Professor Jonathan Hope and Dr. Ruth Ahnert, this institute will introduce humanities scholars, alt-ac builders, and librarians (both digital and traditional) to an expert visiting faculty—computing specialists, social historians, network analysts, literary historians, linguists, and visualization designers—to model best practices for the design and implementation of quantitative network analysis. EMDA2017 will be an opportunity for 12 scholarly practitioners to consider the ways this approach may be shaping the very nature of early modern research through intensive application and analysis. |
HT-251008-16 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | West Virginia University Research Corporation | Digital Publishing Institute: Authoring and Editing Digital Humanities Scholarship | 9/1/2016 - 9/30/2018 | $219,832.00 | Brian | Douglas | Ballentine | Cheryl | E. | Ball | West Virginia University Research Corporation | Morgantown | WV | 26505-2742 | USA | 2016 | Composition and Rhetoric | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 219832 | 0 | 158080.31 | 0 | A series of workshops for humanities scholars
and editors on developing and publishing digital multimedia scholarship to be
hosted by West Virginia University and held on-campus as well as in conjunction
with scholarly publishing conferences.
This institute will offer two sets of workshops for authors and editors who want to learn more about composing and publishing scholarly multimedia and web-based academic texts. The workshops will attend to beginners’ concerns about starting a scholarly multimedia project to more advanced author concerns regarding infrastructural and preservation work plans. The two-week author workshops provide hands-on time and staff support for completing a segment of a digital humanities project. The two-day editor/publisher workshops will focus on workflows for peer review, copy-editing, and publication (including preservation) in scholarly multimedia. |
HT-256958-17 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Tufts University | Digital Editions, Digital Corpora and new possibilities for the Humanities in the Academy and Beyond | 10/1/2017 - 9/30/2019 | $249,359.00 | Gregory | R. | Crane | Anke | | LĂĽdeling | Tufts University | Somerville | MA | 02144-2401 | USA | 2017 | Interdisciplinary Studies, Other | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 249359 | 0 | 130470.6 | 0 | An intensive two-week institute and follow up workshop for 30 humanities scholars on the application of new methods for annotating textual sources for digital editions and digital corpora of historical languages. The institute would be hosted at Tufts University.
Tufts University proposes to host an intensive two week, in-residence institute in the summer of 2018 for 30 humanists on the application of new methods for annotating textual sources. Support will be offered for on-campus housing, meals, and travel to and from Tufts. Participants will have the opportunity to apply the new techniques to their own sources materials; collaborate with others on a wide range of source materials; discuss challenges and results; set and evaluate project goals; and integrate annotation work into the classroom. The proposed workshop builds upon experiences from, and work subsequent to, “Working with Text in a Digital Age,” a 2012-2014 NEH IATDH project and the on-line seminar, Sunoikisis Digital Classics, which has introduced the proposed topics to a virtual and international audience. A two day follow up workshop will be held to expand upon the topics and results of the institute. Project output will inform new Sunoikisis Digital Classics curricula. |
HT-256968-17 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | CUNY Research Foundation, Graduate School and University Center | Expanding Communities of Practice | 9/1/2017 - 8/31/2019 | $246,856.00 | Lisa | M. | Rhody | | | | CUNY Research Foundation, Graduate School and University Center | New York | NY | 10016-4309 | USA | 2017 | Interdisciplinary Studies, Other | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 246856 | 0 | 245150.05 | 0 | A ten-day residential institute and follow-up activities for 15 participants to develop core humanities computational research and project
development skills. The in-person institute and follow-up workshop would be hosted at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
The CUNY Graduate Center’s Digital Humanities Research Institute (DHRI) will advance the research goals and professional growth of individual participants, while at the same time supporting their efforts to organize and lead digital humanities workshops in their local contexts. During a ten-day residential institute in June 2018, participants will explore interdisciplinary digital humanities research and teaching with leading DH scholars, develop core computational research skills through hands-on workshops, and begin developing versions of the DHRI for their own communities. Over the following academic year, each participant will have access to an online network of peers, as well as 20 hours of consultation from our experienced staff. When participants return to New York in June 2019 to report on their experiences, their reflections will inform the publication of a guide to leading digital humanities skill workshops in a variety of institutional contexts. |
HT-256969-17 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Duke University | Virtual and Augmented Reality for the Digital Humanities Institute (VARDHI) | 10/1/2017 - 9/30/2020 | $248,641.00 | Victoria | | Szabo | Philip | J. | Stern | Duke University | Durham | NC | 27705-4677 | USA | 2017 | Arts, Other | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 248641 | 0 | 248641 | 0 | A two-week institute and follow-up activities for twelve participants on the theory and application of virtual and augmented reality technologies to humanities research. Duke University would serve as the host for the institute.
The Virtual and Augmented Reality for the Digital Humanities Institute (VARDHI) explores the importance of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) theories, methods, and technologies to humanities research and communications, with an emphasis on historical and cultural representation and analysis, media arts applications, and experience design for virtual and augmented realities. This field of inquiry brings together narrative, archival, data-driven, and spatial approaches to humanistic research in combination with studies of virtual reality, human cognition, experiential learning, and digital storytelling. The key focus of VARDHI is to understand what is at stake with VR and AR, both of which are enjoying a cultural renaissance thanks to advances in mobile technologies and head mounted displays, and both of which make VR and AR more accessible to a wider range of producers and a potential mass of consumers. |
HT-256977-17 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Louisiana State University and A&M College | Textual Data and Digital Texts in the Undergraduate Classroom | 10/1/2017 - 9/30/2019 | $90,000.00 | Lauren | | Coats | Emily | | McGinn | Louisiana State University and A&M College | Baton Rouge | LA | 70803-0001 | USA | 2017 | Interdisciplinary Studies, Other | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 90000 | 0 | 83469.46 | 0 | A one-week in-person institute hosted at Mississippi State University on approaches to computational textual analysis and how these techniques may be incorporated into the classroom. This institute will be followed by a series of virtual sessions focused on digital pedagogy and the humanities.
While the digital humanities often center on developing long-term research projects, it is the goal of our Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities Institute to bring the tools and methods of the digital humanities directly to the undergraduate classroom. “Textual Data and Digital Texts in the Undergraduate Classroom” aims to expand engagement with and access to digital humanities, particularly at under-resourced institutions, by teaching undergraduate instructors how to incorporate small-scale, data-focused digital projects into their humanities teaching. Our institute will include a one-week in-person session with hands-on instruction in turning text into data, and then analyzing that data and sharing the results. This week will be followed by bimonthly virtual sessions with experts in digital pedagogy. By the end of the institute, participants will have developed a classroom DH project or assignment about textual data. |
HT-261794-18 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | University of Pittsburgh | Workshops on Sustainability for Digital Projects | 10/1/2018 - 9/30/2019 | $215,380.00 | Alison | | Langmead | | | | University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh | PA | 15260-6133 | USA | 2018 | Interdisciplinary Studies, Other | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 215380 | 0 | 181796.65 | 0 | A series of five workshops for up to 150 participants to explore approaches to long term sustainability of digital humanities projects. The workshops would be hosted at the University of Pittsburgh, Brigham Young University, Brown University, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Oklahoma State University.
The ongoing sustainability of digital humanities projects is of critical concern to the field. To help increase engagement with sustainability planning, the University of Pittsburgh has developed, with prior support from the NEH, the Socio-Technical Sustainability Roadmap (STSR). The STSR is a structured workshop that guides participants through the practice of creating effective sustainability plans, based on research findings that demonstrate that the needs of a project’s social infrastructure must be addressed alongside the needs of its technological infrastructure in order to successfully sustain digital work over time. We are applying to the NEH ODH IATDH Program to fund a series of five facilitated STSR workshops at regional digital humanities hubs located across the United States. We anticipate reaching 125-150 people in total and are particularly interested in attracting participants who lack access to digital sustainability infrastructures at their home institutions. |
HT-261812-18 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Northeastern University | Word Vectors for the Thoughtful Humanist: Institutes on Critical Teaching and Research with Vector Space Models | 10/1/2018 - 9/30/2022 | $197,385.00 | Julia | Hammond | Flanders | Sarah | | Connell | Northeastern University | Boston | MA | 02115-5005 | USA | 2018 | British Literature | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 197385 | 0 | 197385 | 0 | A series of four three-day institutes for a total of 72 participants on the use of word embedding models for textual analysis. The three-day institutes would be hosted by Northeastern University.
The Northeastern University Women Writers Project seeks funding for a three-year institute series on word embedding models, to overcome barriers to entry for humanist researchers and teachers. We plan four institutes in all: two aimed at teachers and two aimed at researchers, with a novice and intermediate event for each audience. Each event will be followed by a three-month period of virtual discussion and consultation with WWP staff and fellow participants, and sharing of research and teaching outcomes. |
HT-261817-18 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | University of Florida | Migration, Mobility, and Sustainability: Caribbean Studies and Digital Humanities Institute | 10/1/2018 - 3/31/2021 | $231,093.00 | Laurie | N. | Taylor | Paul | A. | Ortiz | University of Florida | Gainesville | FL | 32611-0001 | USA | 2018 | Latin American Studies | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 231093 | 0 | 193581.85 | 0 | A week-long, residential institute followed by a series of virtual sessions on collaborative digital humanities, archival collections, and Caribbean Studies for 26 participants. The institute would be hosted at the University of Florida.
The George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida (UF) in partnership with the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) request to host a week-long, in-person workshop and five additional monthly virtual workshops on collaborative Digital Humanities (DH) and Caribbean Studies. Participants, especially from under-resourced institutions and those with preservation concerns, will gain DH teaching experience and in-depth knowledge of how to utilize digital collections in teaching. The Institute will provide training in tools, processes, and resources for developing lessons, modules, and/or courses. Twenty-six participants will achieve: 1) acquisition of concrete digital skills and DH approaches for teaching and research utilizing Open Access digital collections; 2) participation in an enhanced community of practice for DH; and, 3) creation of Open Access course and teaching materials that blend DH and Caribbean Studies. |
HT-267259-19 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | University of California, Berkeley | Building Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining | 10/1/2019 - 8/31/2021 | $165,034.00 | Rachael | | Samberg | | | | University of California, Berkeley | Berkeley | CA | 94704-5940 | USA | 2019 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 165034 | 0 | 110105.72 | 0 | A
four-day summer workshop at the University of California, Berkeley, and
follow-up activities for thirty-two participants on the ethical and legal
issues around data mining of large scale textual collections for humanities
research.
Digital humanities (DH) scholars, and professionals who support them, often perceive a barrier to utilizing text data mining (TDM) techniques: the law. Uncertainty about the breadth of TDM rights can impede the scope of DH research questions, or unnecessarily expose scholars to risk. Building Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining (Building LLTDM), hosted by UC Berkeley from June 23-26, 2020, will equip DH TDM researchers, librarians, and professionals with foundational skills to: 1) confidently navigate law, policy, ethics, and risk within DH TDM projects; 2) integrate workflows for DH TDM research and professional support; 3) practice sharing these new tools through authentic consultation exercises; 4) prototype plans for broadly disseminating their knowledge; and 5) develop communities of practice to promote cross-institutional outreach about the DH TDM legal landscape. Instructional materials will be shared publicly as a CC0 (Creative Commons Zero waiver) open educational resource. |
HT-267268-19 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | University of Central Florida Board of Trustees | Understanding Digital Culture: Humanist Lenses for Internet Research | 10/1/2019 - 9/30/2020 | $129,102.00 | Anastasia | | Salter | | | | University of Central Florida Board of Trustees | Orlando | FL | 32816-8005 | USA | 2019 | Media Studies | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 129102 | 0 | 114377.35 | 0 | A five-day institute for twenty-five
participants organized by and hosted at the University of Central Florida for using digital methods to research digital culture.
There has been growing awareness of the need for humanist inquiry into the internet platforms and communities driving contemporary culture. From fan communities and discourse about works of literature to meme-makers skewering cultural objects, online spaces enable readership, creation, circulation, and transformation of humanist texts—and the active making and remaking of public history. However, much internet research is driven by computational approaches without also being rigorously grounded in theories of culture and textual production. Navigating this space can be particularly daunting to early-career humanities scholars. This is where we seek to intervene. Understanding Digital Culture: Humanist Lenses for Internet Research will foster a transdisciplinary humanities institute to provide resources, training, and a community of collaborators to engage both computational network and data analysis tools and the ethics and best practices of using the web as a site of research. |
HT-267282-19 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | George Mason University | Digital Methods for Military History: An Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | 10/1/2019 - 9/30/2021 | $126,947.00 | Abigail | | Mullen | | | | George Mason University | Fairfax | VA | 22030-4444 | USA | 2019 | Military History | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 126947 | 0 | 73806.64 | 0 | A two-week long institute that will teach participants how to create datasets, visualize data, and create maps, with the overarching goal of creating a cohort of military historians who are able to use digital tools and methods to examine issues at the intersection of war and society.
As historians have begun to accept and adopt digital methods for historical analysis, the field of military history has been slow to follow suit. For a field that is rich with data and unconventional sources for analysis, this lack of adoption is somewhat surprising. Both structural barriers and lack of training contribute to the relative paucity of compelling digital projects that focus on military history. To address these barriers and provide hands-on training in digital methods of particular interest to the military history community, the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University requests funding for Digital Methods for Military History, an Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities. |
HT-267285-19 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | University of Pittsburgh | Advanced Digital Editing: Modeling the Text and Making the Edition | 10/1/2019 - 4/30/2023 | $249,456.00 | David | J. | Birnbaum | | | | University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh | PA | 15260-6133 | USA | 2019 | Slavic Languages | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 249456 | 0 | 247596 | 0 | A two-week summer institute on the theory and development of digital scholarly editions for twenty-five participants to be hosted at the University of Pittsburgh.
The proposed NEH Institute, “Advanced digital editing: modeling the text and making the edition”, will train 25 participants who already know how to edit their texts in TEI XML to participate directly in the modeling, conceptualization, and implementation of their editions, empowering them to express innovative philological scholarship in a way that is informed by a deep understanding of what is possible technically, and of how to achieve it. |
HT-267293-19 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | CUNY Research Foundation, Graduate School and University Center | Digital Humanities Research Institutes: Further Expanding Communities of Practice | 10/1/2019 - 3/31/2023 | $411,774.00 | Lisa | M. | Rhody | | | | CUNY Research Foundation, Graduate School and University Center | New York | NY | 10016-4309 | USA | 2019 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 411774 | 0 | 411774 | 0 | A ten-day residential institute and follow-up activities for 15 participants to develop core humanities computational research and project development skills hosted at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
A ten-day residential institute and follow-up activities for 15 participants to develop core humanities computational research and project development skills. The in-person institute will be hosted at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York with follow up workshops offered through online webinars. |
HT-272418-20 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Princeton University | Foundations and Applications of Cultural Analytics in the Humanities | 9/1/2020 - 8/31/2023 | $247,932.00 | Meredith | Anne | Martin | Simon | | DeDeo | Princeton University | Princeton | NJ | 08540-5228 | USA | 2020 | Interdisciplinary Studies, Other | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 247932 | 0 | 229639 | 0 | An online course on computational and quantitative methods for cultural analysis of large-scale digital sources to be followed by more advanced in-person workshops for early career scholars.
The use of computational and quantitative tools and approaches in the humanities is rapidly becoming more widespread. At the same time, there are still significant barriers preventing emerging scholars in the humanities from using these tools to generate new insights that make a genuine impact within the humanities themselves. The goal of our proposed advanced institute is to develop an online course and in-person workshop that will empower scholars in the humanities by eliminating the "black box" of computational text analysis. Participants will gain a theoretical and practical understanding of text analysis methods and the interpretation of their outputs. As such, participants will be able to extract content and derive meaning from the growing archives of digital sources, making accessible new directions in humanities scholarship. The in-person workshop in particular will be the springboard for collaborations between the next generation of analytically-inclined humanities scholars. |
HT-272556-20 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | University of Minnesota | Building capable communities for crowdsourced transcription | 9/1/2020 - 8/31/2024 | $249,856.00 | Evan | | Roberts | Samantha | | Blickhan | University of Minnesota | Minneapolis | MN | 55455-2009 | USA | 2020 | Interdisciplinary Studies, Other | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 249856 | 0 | 249056 | 0 | An institute to help cultural organizations plan, develop, and launch crowdsourcing projects focused on engaging communities with their collections.
Converting printed texts into digital formats is now straightforward, enabling humanities scholars to mine the world's cultural heritage. But many crucial sources exist only in manuscript form and are difficult to integrate into the future of the digital humanities. If we can convert handwriting into machine-readable text we can connect the past and present of the humanities. People can often decipher unfamiliar handwriting, and improvements in software and public engagement have made crowdsourced transcription effective. But getting it all right—design, engagement, and accuracy—remains tricky. The University of Minnesota, Adler Planetarium, and Zooniverse, as leaders in developing crowdsourcing transcription platforms, will convene an Institute developing a cohort of leaders who develop crowdsourced transcription projects. The Institute will take a cohort through the process together, led by a team with successful experience in crowdsourced transcription and teaching. |
HT-272565-20 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | University of Arkansas, Fayetteville | SAROI: Spatial Archaeology Residential and Online Studies | 9/1/2020 - 8/31/2023 | $250,000.00 | Carla | | Klehm | Jackson | | Cothren | University of Arkansas, Fayetteville | Fayetteville | AR | 72701-1201 | USA | 2020 | Archaeology | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 250000 | 0 | 214988.99 | 0 | An online and in-person mentorship and training program to facilitate collaboration among scholars at the Spatial Archaeology Residential and Online Institute, devoted to large-scale archeological analysis of objects, structures, sites, and landscapes.
The Spatial Archaeology Residential and Online Institute, hosted at the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies, University of Arkansas, addresses an increasing need for advanced training in spatial methodologies in archaeology and heritage management. Spatial analysis of human behavior involves data on a “very large-scale,” as there are many aspects involved in understanding how humans perceive space, occupy it, and alter it. Obtaining this “very large-scale” data involves the high-density measurement and analysis of objects, structures, sites, and landscapes. Recent developments that allow for higher density and more precision are helping us address complex questions about human nature that heretofore were not possible. SAROI seeks to support 16 junior scholars in an online and in-person training and mentorship program over the course of three years, with the intent of building long-term collaborative relationships among Fellows and between Fellows and SAROI staff. |
HT-272566-20 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Ithaka Harbors, Inc. | The Text Analysis Pedagogy (TAP) Institute | 9/1/2020 - 8/31/2022 | $248,518.00 | Nathan | | Kelber | | | | Ithaka Harbors, Inc. | New York | NY | 10006-1895 | USA | 2020 | Interdisciplinary Studies, Other | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 248518 | 0 | 214465 | 0 | A series of workshops, to be hosted at the University of Virginia and the University of Arizona, on approaches for teaching computational text analysis.
These summer institutes will support access to community support, technical infrastructure, and educational resources for teaching and learning text analysis based on open content and infrastructure. This two-year Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities grant will result in teacher development and the creation of a series of open educational resources that are intended to support the larger educational community of practice. |
HT-272570-20 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Princeton University | New Languages for NLP: Building Linguistic Diversity in the Digital Humanities | 9/1/2020 - 8/31/2024 | $239,983.00 | Natalia | | Ermolaev | Andrew | | Janco | Princeton University | Princeton | NJ | 08540-5228 | USA | 2020 | Computational Linguistics | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 239983 | 0 | 237034 | 0 | an institute to help humanities scholars learn how to create linguistic data and apply statistical models to new languages.
Natural Language Processing (NLP) has revolutionized our ability to interpret texts at scale and is an essential tool for scholars in the digital humanities. However, only a small percentage of the world’s languages are supported by the major NLP libraries. The New Languages for NLP Institute will help scholars with expertise in less-resourced languages to create linguistic data and train NLP models for their languages. In three workshops, held at the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University in 2021-2022, participants will create linguistic data and train statistical language models for new languages. They will learn best practices in project and research data management. As an outcome of the project, participants will publish an open dataset in the standard Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning format as well as a trained language model that can be used for computational text analysis. |
HT-281157-21 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Vanderbilt University | Immersive Global Middle Ages Institute for Advanced Topics | 9/1/2021 - 8/31/2024 | $239,569.00 | Lynn | | Ramey | Roger | Louis | Martinez-Davila | Vanderbilt University | Nashville | TN | 37203-2416 | USA | 2021 | Medieval Studies | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 239569 | 0 | 239066 | 0 | A 28-month initiative for fourteen participants to learn about the use of immersive digital technologies for teaching and learning about the Global Middle Ages through in-person and virtual workshops hosted by the University of Colorado – Colorado Springs and Vanderbilt University.
Virtual reality, augmented reality, and 3D digital environments are witnessing explosive growth in research and teaching, but faculty and staff who could benefit from these techniques do not have equal access to the tools they need. Hardware and software used in the creation of 3D environments is expensive; institutional policies and commitment are highly variable; and some who would benefit lack confidence with the technology. The Immersive Global Middle Ages Institute provides a diverse cohort of medievalists with both theoretical and practical training in the creation and implementation of 3D objects and environments for research and teaching. The Institute meets virtually every month and will have two in-person workshops over a two-year period. By the end of the Institute, participants will have considered the research around using 3D environments, developed 3D object assets and worlds, and authored teaching resources to pass on their new skills to students and colleagues. |
HT-281158-21 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Brown University | Born-Digital Scholarly Publishing: Resources and Road Maps | 10/1/2021 - 4/30/2023 | $168,938.78 | Allison | | Levy | | | | Brown University | Providence | RI | 02912-9100 | USA | 2021 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 168938.78 | 0 | 168212 | 0 | A three-week hybrid summer institute to train participants in born-digital scholarly publishing methods.
Brown University Library requests funding to support a hybrid three-week summer institute (July 11-29, 2022) with virtual and in-person components for fifteen participants who wish to develop innovative born-digital scholarship intended for publication by a university press but lack the necessary resources and capacity at their home institutions. The Institute will equip humanities scholars from all career levels and across disciplines with in-depth knowledge of the digital publishing process, familiarity with open source tools and platforms, advanced project management skills, concrete and individualized plans for project advancement, and top-level publishing industry contacts. Centered on inclusivity and accessibility, the Institute aims to broaden the range of scholars producing born-digital publications and, by extension, the audience for digital humanities scholarship. |
HT-281161-21 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc. | The Public Digital Humanities: An Institute for Academic/Community Collaborations | 9/1/2021 - 6/30/2023 | $191,879.00 | Brian | | Rosenblum | David | W. | Tell | University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc. | Lawrence | KS | 66045-3101 | USA | 2021 | Interdisciplinary Studies, Other | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 191879 | 0 | 185005 | 0 | An institute supporting 12 teams (24 people total) from collaborative public digital humanities projects hosted at the University of Kansas for one year of in-person and virtual training.
The Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities (IDRH) at the University of Kansas (KU) seeks funding from the Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Program to offer training in the public digital humanities. In order to focus on the under-resourced nexus of the digital humanities and public humanities, and in order to provide a one-of-a-kind opportunity for academics and their community partners to receive training together, we are inviting participants to attend in teams of two. We can host up to 12 teams and 24 participants. Each team represents a collaborative digital humanities project between the community and the academy. We will provide foundational knowledge, skills, and resources to successfully advance their public humanities projects, increasing the projects’ longevity, visibility, and impact. |
HT-288187-22 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | University of Connecticut | Remote Collaboration Methods and Best Practices for Digital Humanities Scholarship | 9/1/2022 - 2/28/2025 | $249,566.00 | Tom | | Scheinfeldt | | | | University of Connecticut | Storrs | CT | 06269-9000 | USA | 2022 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 249566 | 0 | 249566 | 0 | A one-year virtual institute focused on training humanities scholars to manage remote teams collaborating on digital projects.
Greenhouse Studios at the University of Connecticut (greenhousestudios.uconn.edu) requests $249,566 over two and a half years to improve the remote collaboration and facilitation skills of digital humanities project managers. COVID-19 has brought the challenges of working in online environments into high relief, but the need among digital humanists for better ways of working together online predates the pandemic. The fully-online institute proposed here will both model and teach proven methods and best practices for supporting more productive virtual teams, including how to: build a cohesive and inclusive team of remote colleagues; facilitate more equitable participation in the online environment; design more productive online experiences; match remote collaboration tools to project aims; balance synchronous and asynchronous interactions; encourage positive participation from remote team members; and sustain participation over time. |
HT-288201-22 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York | Archives as Data: An Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | 9/1/2022 - 8/31/2025 | $247,399.00 | Matthew | | Connelly | Courtney | | Chartier | Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York | New York | NY | 10032-3725 | USA | 2022 | History, General | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 247399 | 0 | 247399 | 0 | A series of workshops for historians and archivists on approaches to working with large-scale collections of digitized and born-digital historical records.
Columbia’s History Lab has developed new open-source tools and workflows to meet the challenge of archiving, aggregating, and exploring large collections of digitized and born digital records. We propose to leverage our experience to offer training to archivists and historians, encourage dialogue between them, identify common concerns, and work toward innovative solutions in processing and making text data accessible for digital humanities research. The Institute would consist of in-person summer workshops, featuring morning classes with hands-on training, with about twenty people in each cohort. During lunches all participants would come together while experts Zoom in to present a range of perspectives on the digital turn. Conversations would continue with discussion seminars based on shared readings. The Institute would conclude with a two-day in-person conference in January 2025, featuring panel discussions and keynote talks, to showcase innovative projects by workshop participants. |
HT-288207-22 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Alexandria Archive Institute, Inc. | Networking Archaeological Data and Communities | 9/1/2022 - 8/31/2025 | $249,879.00 | Leigh | | Lieberman | | | | Alexandria Archive Institute, Inc. | San Francisco | CA | 94127-2036 | USA | 2022 | Archaeology | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 249879 | 0 | 240312 | 0 | A virtual and in-person institute supporting 15 participants over three years teaching methods for managing and publishing digital archaeological data.
Digital data increasingly inform how communities understand the present and past. To make these understandings more democratic and accountable, the scholarly community needs to make data, and the skills and knowledge to make sense of data, more broadly accessible. Networking Archaeological Data and Communities builds on our achievements in archaeological data publishing and data literacy instruction by providing professional development for archaeologists who represent and serve diverse communities. In virtual meetings and in-person workshops, participants will bridge theoretical and practical aspects of data. They will develop ethically appropriate data management plans, prepare data for publication, begin developing public-facing digital projects or pedagogical resources, and contribute to an open access Data Literacy for Archaeologists Practice Guide. Thus, this institute will catalyze collaborative outcomes and those driven by the needs of individual participants. |
HT-293866-23 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | George Mason University | Mathematical Humanists | 10/1/2023 - 9/30/2026 | $240,787.00 | Jessica | | Otis | Ashley | | Sanders | George Mason University | Fairfax | VA | 22030-4444 | USA | 2023 | History, General | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 240787 | 0 | 240787 | 0 | A series of in-person, online, and asynchronous professional development workshops to be hosted by George Mason University and the University of California, Los Angeles, on statistics, graphs and networks, linear algebra, and discrete mathematics methods that inform computational humanities methodologies such as statistics, network analysis, and text mining and analysis.
Many humanists have not had the opportunity, or have faced barriers, to receiving instruction in higher mathematics, particularly topics that provide a conceptual foundation for understanding the assumptions made in common DH methods. Mathematical Humanists will iteratively conduct a series of four workshops to guide a total of 48 synchronous participants (and an unlimited number of asynchronous participants) through fundamental mathematical concepts underpinning common DH methods, including statistics, network analysis, and text mining and analysis. The proposed workshops introduce participants to mathematical notation, theories, and application using a learner-centered, case-study approach, contextualizing each lesson with real humanities data and questions. We will seek a diverse cohort of participants doing DH research, instruction, and/or related scholarship who wish to learn about the mathematics behind common DH methods and who have not had access to this training before. |
HT-293874-23 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Brown University | Born-Digital Scholarly Publishing: Resources and Roadmaps | 10/1/2023 - 1/31/2025 | $168,647.01 | Allison | | Levy | | | | Brown University | Providence | RI | 02912-9100 | USA | 2023 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 168647.01 | 0 | 168647 | 0 | A three-week hybrid summer institute to train participants in born-digital scholarly publishing methods.
Brown University Library requests funding to support a hybrid three-week summer institute (July 8-23, 2024) with virtual and in-person components for fifteen participants who wish to develop innovative born-digital scholarship intended for publication by a university press, but may lack the necessary resources and capacity at their home institutions. The institute will equip humanities scholars from all career levels and across disciplines with in-depth knowledge of the digital publishing process, concrete and individualized plans for project advancement, and top-level publishing industry contacts. Centered on inclusivity and accessibility, the institute aims to broaden the range of scholars producing born-digital publications and, by extension, the audience for digital humanities scholarship. |
HT-293880-23 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | University of California, San Francisco | Advancing Digital Health Humanities Institute | 3/1/2024 - 2/28/2026 | $249,995.00 | Polina | E. | Ilieva | | | | University of California, San Francisco | San Francisco | CA | 94143-2203 | USA | 2023 | Social Sciences, Other | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 249995 | 0 | 249994 | 0 | An institute exploring various computational methods for ethically working with large-scale collections of digitized and born-digital archival health science materials records for humanistic scholarship.
Digital health humanities (DHH) leverages digital methods to critically analyze archival health sciences materials for humanistic research. The Advancing DHH Institute, hosted by UCSF, investigates how and where cross-disciplinary expertise and data analysis methods can advance understanding of the effects of illness and disease on patients, health professionals, and the social worlds in which they live and work. Through workshops and seminars working with “archives as data” materials, researchers develop familiarity with critical DHH methods and issues. The institute nurtures research on the human experience of health and illness and develops insights into how social, cultural, historical, and other factors impact individual and public health. Programming brings together researchers across domains, from data science to humanistic social science, and history of medicine, to identify common strengths and potential translations from distinctive methods as applied to humanistic research. |
HT-293887-23 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | CUNY Research Foundation, Graduate School and University Center | Open Education Publishing Institute: Collaborative Knowledge and Social Justice | 1/1/2024 - 8/31/2025 | $250,000.00 | Matthew | K. | Gold | Krystyna | | Michael | CUNY Research Foundation, Graduate School and University Center | New York | NY | 10016-4309 | USA | 2023 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 250000 | 0 | 250000 | 0 | A three-day, residential institute followed by a series of virtual sessions on best practices for the development of digital open educational resources for use in the humanities classroom for 15 participants. The institute will be hosted at the CUNY, Graduate Center.
We propose the “Open Education Publishing Institute: Collaborative Knowledge and Social Justice” (OEPI), an advanced digital humanities summer institute that will help DH scholars create OER publications and classroom assignments that build out from the community-based concerns of their students and that consciously foreground diverse perspectives. |
HT-50006-08 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Brown University | Advanced Topics in TEI Encoding | 7/1/2009 - 6/30/2011 | $196,000.00 | Julia | Hammond | Flanders | | | | Brown University | Providence | RI | 02912-9100 | USA | 2008 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 196000 | 0 | 196000 | 0 | A series of workshops for humanities faculty and graduate students to explore advanced uses of digital text encoding as an essential method in humanities scholarship.
This project offers a series of nine advanced 3-day and 4-day institutes in text encoding for scholarly humanities projects with TEI. Aimed at an audience with a working knowledge of the TEI Guidelines, these institutes provide an intensive environment for more advanced project development, including schema customization, encoding strategy, and documentation. The institutes will focus on three topics of particular interest to scholars working on digital humanities projects: the encoding of manuscripts, the representation of contextual information, and the development of large thematic research collections. |
HT-50010-08 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | University of Southern California | Broadening the Digital Humanities: The Vectors-IML Summer Institute on Multimodal Scholarship | 11/1/2008 - 10/31/2009 | $200,000.00 | Holly | | Willis | Tara | L. | McPherson | University of Southern California | Los Angeles | CA | 90089-0012 | USA | 2008 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 200000 | 0 | 200000 | 0 | A four-week summer institute to investigate scholarly research methods in the digital age, to include thematic discussion seminars and hands-on workshops in collaboration with technologists.
This proposal requests funding to support a four-week summer institute for 12 participating scholars. The Institute, set to take place at the University of Southern California's Institute for Multimedia Literacy from mid-July to mid-August, 2009, will serve as an introduction to key issues in the multimodal digital humanities and as a hands-on practicum in the creation of digital scholarship. Scholars will learn both by engaging with a variety of existing projects but also through the production of their own project; these projects will at once enrich the participants' own understanding of the digital humanities and model the field for other scholars through their publication in the electronic journal Vectors, and elsewhere online. The Institute will provide the opportunity to explore the benefits of interactive media for scholarly analysis and authorship, illustrating the possibilities of multimodal media for humanities investigation. |
HT-50013-08 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Humanities High Performance Computing Collaboratory (HpC): Coordinating High Performance Computing Institutes and the Digital | 9/1/2008 - 2/28/2011 | $249,997.00 | Kevin | D. | Franklin | | | | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Champaign | IL | 61801-3620 | USA | 2008 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 249997 | 0 | 249997 | 0 | A total of nine institutes and one joint conference for humanities scholars, to be hosted by three different high-performance computer centers: the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, and the San Diego Supercomputer Center.
The Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will lead a collaboration partnering the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), the Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center (PSC), and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) that will engage scholars in sustained collaboration with high performance computing specialists in order to identify, create, and adapt computational tools and methods. The Humanities High Performance Computing Collaboratory will serve as a portal for humanities scholars to receive technical support, access to high performance computing, and products and services associated with the digital technologies. Participants will consult with each computing staff about digital technology, discuss these technologies via a virtual community, and develop long-term technological goals for their projects via nine mini-residencies and a two-day conference. |
HT-50015-09 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | University of Virginia | Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship | 7/1/2009 - 6/30/2011 | $162,457.00 | Bethany | | Nowviskie | | | | University of Virginia | Charlottesville | VA | 22903-4833 | USA | 2009 | Geography | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 162457 | 0 | 162457 | 0 | The creation of two institutes, aimed at scholars, librarians, museum officials, and advanced graduate students, to explore how geospatial technologies like Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can be used for teaching, learning, and research in the humanities.
The Scholars' Lab at the University of Virginia Library requests $162,457 from NEH to host two rounds of an Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, on the theme of Enabling Geospatial Scholarship. The first four-day event would invite 20 competitively selected library, museum, and digital humanities center professionals to shape policy and begin building the technical capacity of the institutions they represent, to support boundary-pushing geospatial scholarship. Ongoing work in implementing a standards-based, open source infrastructure for discovery, delivery, and manipulation of geospatial data would be supported through an online clearinghouse and open-access community to be maintained long-term by the Scholars' Lab. The second Institute would invite 20 humanities scholars and advanced graduate students to train with and critique the open source and standards-based GIS tools and geospatial approaches to humanities scholarship being developed by the University of Virginia Library. |
HT-50016-09 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | UCLA; Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles | Network Analysis for the Humanities | 7/1/2009 - 12/31/2011 | $232,737.00 | Timothy | R. | Tangherlini | | | | UCLA; Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles | Los Angeles | CA | 90024-4201 | USA | 2009 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 232737 | 0 | 232737 | 0 | A ten-day workshop and follow-up symposium for humanities faculty members and advanced graduate students on the use of large-scale network analysis for humanities topics and questions.
We propose to host an Institute in Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities focusing on techniques for the discovery, visualization and analysis of networks in Humanities corpuses. Networks in this context are broadly defined to include both external networks (networks of production, networks of circulation, networks of influence, and networks of reception) and internal networks (networks of characters, networks of text, networks of language) in the data. The institute will consist of two main parts: a ten day intensive institute, taking place over two weeks in June 2010, and a shorter three day research symposium in June 2011. Both events will be housed at NSF's Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics on UCLA's campus. |
HT-50021-09 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | George Mason University | One Week, One Tool: A Digital Humanities Barn Raising | 7/1/2009 - 6/30/2011 | $249,221.00 | Tom | | Scheinfeldt | | | | George Mason University | Fairfax | VA | 22030-4444 | USA | 2009 | History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 249221 | 0 | 249221 | 0 | A one week institute for twelve participants on the principles of humanities-centered tool design, development, and implementation, followed by a year of development support.
For one week in June 2010, the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University will bring together a group of twelve digital humanists of diverse disciplinary backgrounds and practical experience to build a useful and useable software tool for digital humanities research. A short course of training in principles of open source software development will be followed by an intense five days of brainstorming and development. Following the workshop will be a year of continued development, testing and evaluation. The group members will be comprised of designers and programmers as well as project managers and outreach specialists. The group will conceive a tool, outline a roadmap, develop and disseminate a prototype, lay the ground work for building an open source community, and make first steps toward securing sustainable funding for the project. |
HT-50022-09 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Regents of the University of California, Irvine | Broadening the Digital Humanities: The Vectors-IML/UC-HRI Summer Institute on Multimodal Scholarship | 11/1/2009 - 10/31/2010 | $249,895.00 | David | Theo | Goldberg | Tara | L. | McPherson | Regents of the University of California, Irvine | Irvine | CA | 92617-3066 | USA | 2009 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 249895 | 0 | 249895 | 0 | A four-week summer institute to investigate scholarly research methods in the digital age, to include thematic discussion seminars and hands-on workshops in collaboration with technologists.
The Vectors-IML/UCHRI Summer Institute on Multimodal Scholarship is a four-week program designed for the humanities scholar who does not have a great deal of computing experience but who has begun to express an interest in the digital humanities and in digital media more broadly. The Institute will offer a new cadre of scholars the opportunity to explore the benefits of interactive media for scholarly analysis and authorship, illustrating the possibilities of multimodal media for humanities investigation. The scholars participating in our program will learn both by engaging with a variety of existing projects and also through the production of their own project in collaboration with the Vectors-IML and UCHRI teams. |
HT-50025-09 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | University of South Carolina Research Foundation | Humanities Gaming Institute: Serious Games for Research and Pedagogy | 7/1/2009 - 5/31/2011 | $232,096.00 | Duncan | A. | Buell | | | | University of South Carolina Research Foundation | Columbia | SC | 29208-0001 | USA | 2009 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 232096 | 0 | 232096 | 0 | A three-week institute on the role of immersive, interactive technologies and games within the context of the humanities, with a year of follow-up support for the twenty participants.
We propose a three-week Institute on Humanities Gaming to develop the intellectual frameworks necessary to support gaming as an active area of humanities research and pedagogy. Our institute aims to reduce the technical barriers to the adoption of gaming as a research and teaching platform by leveraging investments in the infrastructure of computing and digital media. The institute will (a) investigate the cognitive components of games that inform and enable successful game play, including immersive structure, rule governance, interactivity, and simulation; (b) provide hands-on research into existing serious games from a variety of fields, including history, literature, linguistics, philosophy, and economics; (c) produce, under the guidance of experienced game developers, games that can scale to meet participants' research and teaching needs in the humanities. |
HT-50030-10 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | University of North Carolina, Charlotte | Computer Simulations in the Humanities | 9/1/2010 - 8/31/2012 | $155,415.00 | Marvin | J. | Croy | Anthony | F. | Beavers | University of North Carolina, Charlotte | Charlotte | NC | 28223-0001 | USA | 2010 | Philosophy, General | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 155415 | 0 | 154589 | 0 | A three-week institute and follow-up activities on the use of computer simulations and modeling techniques in the humanities for twenty-four humanities scholars.
This project will advance research in the humanities by adding a variety of simulation techniques to the standard repertoire of methods already employed by humanists. Interested humanists from a range of disciplines including philosophy, history, archeology, linguistics, anthropology and political science, among others, will work not only with technical experts but also with humanists already familiar with methods involving computer simulations and models. Our aim in bringing technologists and humanists together in precisely this way is to promote the dual notion of "the humanities shaping technology" as well as "technology shaping the humanities." Modeling experts will be pressed to not merely present existing techniques but to shape those techniques in ways that address questions and on-going inquiries pursued by humanists. Twenty-four humanists will spend 3 weeks in June 2011 and 3 days in 2012 interacting with modeling experts. |
HT-50032-10 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Colorado Seminary | University of Denver's Institute for the Digital Humanities | 2/1/2011 - 7/31/2013 | $249,433.00 | Adrienne | | Russell | | | | Colorado Seminary | Denver | CO | 80210-4711 | USA | 2010 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 249433 | 0 | 245612.57 | 0 | A series of three workshops held over 18 months for twenty humanities faculty and advanced graduate students on the use of digital media in scholarship and teaching.
This institute brings together 20 humanities scholars from a variety of disciplines with little or no technical expertise to collaborate with each other and with experts in the field of digital humanities who are at the forefront of developing tools and methods for using digital media in their scholarly work. Institute fellows participate in a series of 3 workshops over an 18-month period. The institute program is designed to introduce and train fellows in the use of cutting-edge technological tools and methods, and to offer support and guidance as they work in groups to carry out a research project that involves collaboration with the public. Focus will be on the use of digital tools to facilitate collaboration among humanities scholars across various disciplines, to present and consider new strategies of representation and knowledge in emerging digital literacies, and to forge more engaging relationships with the public. |
HT-50034-10 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | University of Virginia | NINES Summer Workshops: Emerging Issues in Digital Scholarship | 6/1/2011 - 5/31/2013 | $193,963.00 | Andrew | M. | Stauffer | | | | University of Virginia | Charlottesville | VA | 22903-4833 | USA | 2010 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 193963 | 0 | 180810.55 | 0 | A two-year series of summer workshops engaging scholars and institutional administrators in concerns relating to peer review and evaluation of digital scholarship in the humanities.
NINES proposes a two-year series of summer workshops with emphasis on institutional concerns surrounding digital scholarship in the humanities, specifically in regard to peer-review and the tenure-and-promotion process. We plan to host 22 people each year for a 5-day workshop, in which digital project leaders will interact with institutional representatives with a stake in the evaluation of scholarship. We will come at issues under rubrics: "markup and metadata," "interface," "documentation," "collaboration," and "sustainability." We hope to guide the development of projects and use the group to generate public working papers towards a rationale for peer-review and promotion. Both workshops will be held at the University of Virginia, with its rich supporting environment in the digital humanities. In combining opportunities for technical, theoretical, and institutional training and discussions, NINES hopes to cultivate digital scholarly production and reception in the humanities. |
HT-50036-10 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | University of Southern California | Broadening the Digital Humanities: The Vectors-CTS Summer Institute on Digital Approaches to American Studies | 9/1/2011 - 8/31/2012 | $249,826.00 | Philip | J. | Ethington | Tara | L. | McPherson | University of Southern California | Los Angeles | CA | 90089-0012 | USA | 2010 | American Studies | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 249826 | 0 | 248125.09 | 0 | A four-week summer institute to explore ways digital scholarship and new media publication can advance research in the fields of American Studies and Ethnic Studies.
We propose to bring fifteen (15) scholars with strong interests in digital publication both in the fields of new media and in traditional areas of American Studies and Ethnic Studies to attend a four-week summer institute at the University of Southern California (USC) from mid-July to mid-August, 2011, that will explore how digital scholarship can address the needs of the changing fields of American Studies and Ethnic Studies. This summer institute will be administered by USC’s Center for Transformative Scholarship (CTS) and held at the Institute of Multimedia Literacy (IML), also the operational base for Vectors, the international electronic journal. The institute will be an introduction to key issues in the digital humanities within the context of American Studies and also a hands-on practicum in the creation of digital scholarship. The projects created will enrich participants’ understanding of the digital humanities and will model the field for other scholars in American Studies. |
HT-50038-10 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | University of Arkansas, Fayetteville | Institute for Digital Archaeology | 7/1/2010 - 6/30/2013 | $249,885.00 | Jesse | J. | Casana | | | | University of Arkansas, Fayetteville | Fayetteville | AR | 72701-1201 | USA | 2010 | Archaeology | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 249885 | 0 | 249755.84 | 0 | A semester-long program of advanced training in geospatial technologies critical to the practice of modern archaeology, followed by participation in field projects.
This proposal seeks funding to support a program designed to provide junior scholars in archaeology with advanced training in geospatial technologies and their application to archaeological research. While geospatial technologies ranging from satellite remote sensing, to subsurface geophysical prospection, to three dimensional scanning and visualization have all become increasingly critical to modern archaeology, few practitioners have the necessary technical skills to integrate these technologies into research and teaching programs. Participants in this program will have the opportunity to spend an entire semester taking a series of intensive courses in geospatial technologies and make use of the hardware, software and instrumentation available at the University of Arkansas's Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies on independent research projects. On-campus training will be followed up by participation in one of numerous archaeological field projects. |
HT-50041-10 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | SUNY Research Foundation, Albany | Institute for Globally Networked Learning in the Humanities, SUNY - COIL Center | 7/1/2010 - 9/30/2013 | $249,938.00 | Jon | | Rubin | | | | SUNY Research Foundation, Albany | Albany | NY | 12222-0001 | USA | 2010 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 249938 | 0 | 249902 | 0 | A three-year institute for 60 humanities scholars and staff that includes a three-day workshop, online discussion, and a capstone conference on developing international team-taught courses in the humanities.
The proposed Institute for Globally Networked Learning in the Humanities is a four-phase, three year long initiative (start July 1 2010 - June 30 2013) aimed at preparing and supporting humanities faculty, instructional design and international programs staff in their development and implementation a globally networked course. These courses allow students to work cross-culturally with their peer students from other countries, without leaving their home campus, using digital technologies such as the internet. These courses help humanities scholars bring a global perspective to the content of their course, and are a means to internationalize content in an engaging and affordable way. The Institute will consist of five discipline-specific 3-day workshops, an online course, ongoing support for the development and implementation of the course, and a capstone conference for sharing of lessons learned. |
HT-50043-11 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Northeastern University | Taking TEI Further: Teaching and Publication | 3/1/2012 - 2/28/2016 | $249,974.00 | Julia | Hammond | Flanders | | | | Northeastern University | Boston | MA | 02115-5005 | USA | 2011 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 249974 | 0 | 249973.14 | 0 | A series of workshops to be held at Brown University for humanities faculty, related staff, and graduate students to explore advanced uses of digital text encoding for use in humanities scholarship and teaching.
This three-year institute series will offer an opportunity for advanced exploration and training in three areas of critical importance to scholarly users of the TEI Guidelines. Building on two previous seminar series, we will offer advanced three-day institutes on TEI customization, XSLT for digital humanists, and bringing text encoding into the digital humanities classroom. These seminars will be aimed at an audience of faculty, archivists, librarians, and digital humanists who have had some experience with TEI and need grounding in more advanced tools, systems, and approaches. Each seminar will emphasize discussion, hands-on practice, and close attention to the specifics of participants' own projects. The seminars will be led by the WWP staff, who are internationally recognized as experts in TEI encoding, project design, and digital humanities, together with guest instructors with expertise in specific domains appropriate to each seminar. |
HT-50044-11 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Tufts University | Working with Text in a Digital Age | 10/1/2011 - 6/30/2015 | $249,727.00 | Gregory | R. | Crane | | | | Tufts University | Somerville | MA | 02144-2401 | USA | 2011 | Classics | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 249727 | 0 | 249542.36 | 0 | A three-week institute with follow-up activities at Tufts University on the use of computational and corpus linguistics methodologies for scholarly research for humanities scholars, library professionals, and graduate students.
This Institute will provide 30 participants with three weeks in which (1) to develop hands on experience with TEI-XML, (2) to apply methods from information retrieval, text visualization, and corpus and computational linguistics to the analysis of textual and linguistic sources in the Humanities, and (3) to rethink not only their own research agendas but also new relationships between their work and non-specialists (e.g., an expansion in opportunities for tangible contributions and significant research by undergraduates, new collaborations that transcend boundaries of language and culture, and increased opportunities for the general public both to contribute to our understanding of the past). A two-day conference on the theme of the Institute will then follow in the summer of 2013 with an open call for contributions and will provide both a venue for and a challenge to the issues/ideas raised during the initial Institute and their importance for the digital humanities. |