Project Grant CHA26190819

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $270,834 Project Grant through its Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the Alexandria Archive Institute, a non-profit technology company, for a 5-year project titled "OPEN CONTEXT: SUSTAINING A COLLABORATIVE DATA INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ARCHAEOLOGY". The project aims to sustain and enhance the Open Context platform, which has emerged as a globally recognized platform for reviewing, curating, and publishing...

The Alexandria Archive Institute will receive $480,624 under a three-year Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Office of Digital Humanities. The grant will support the "Networking Archaeological Data and Communities" program, which aims to make archaeological data and skills for understanding data more broadly accessible. Key products and services will include professional development workshops for archaeologists on topics like ethically managing data,...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $700,000 to Bard College through its Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to develop the International Digital Dura-Europos Archive project from July 1, 2022 to May 31, 2025. The International Digital Dura-Europos Archive project aims to increase global access to and understanding of cultural heritage artifacts and data from the important archaeological site of Dura-Europos in Syria. Using linked...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure provides $159,341 to support the Alexandria Archive Institute in developing interoperable data systems and best practices for the geoscience community. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the award period is from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2025. Specifically, the Institute will improve the interoperability and reproducibility of...

The Alexandria Archive Institute, a non-profit organization, received a $699,475 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the National Leadership Grants (CFDA 45.312) program. The 3-year project, starting on August 1, 2023, aims to lead a network of cultural heritage stakeholders to investigate, develop, demonstrate, and promote more equitable cultural heritage data curation practices. Specifically, the project will reconcile the apparent social and technical...

This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) provides $149,518 to Emory University to enhance the data documentation, interoperability, and reach of the POST45 Data Collective, a peer-reviewed, open-access repository for literary and cultural data from 1945 to the present. The funding will support the development of a comprehensive data style guide and protocols to improve the interoperability of book and...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $138,256 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) program to George Mason University for the "Connecting Threads: Digitally Connecting Collections, Expanding Public Engagement" project. This open access digital humanities initiative aims to increase access to and engagement with global fashion histories by digitally connecting relevant collections from small museums and archives...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $245,880 Project Grant through its Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) program to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. The grant, awarded on October 1, 2024 and scheduled to run through September 30, 2026, will enable Columbia's History Lab to develop new open-source tools and workflows for archiving, aggregating, and exploring large collections of digitized and born-digital...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $564,991 National Leadership Grant (CFDA 45.312) to Old Dominion University Research Foundation (ODURF) to investigate how to preserve endangered open access datasets and software (OADS) used for reproducing research results. The 3-year project, starting on August 1, 2024, aims to characterize the availability, observability, and accessibility of OADS, study the status of OADS preservation, develop predictive models for endangered...

The University of Arizona, in partnership with Harvard University, received a $599,816 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the National Leadership Grants (CFDA 45.312) program to develop a digital curation framework that aligns 3D data creation and curation methods following FAIR (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability) data principles. The project team will travel to research sites to document 3D data creators' workflows through...