Project Grant HAA28776122
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) provides $249,496.00 to support the "Deep Maps and Community Histories: Advancing Transdisciplinary and Public-Facing Scholarship in the Spatial Humanities" institute at Michigan Technological University. The 16-month hybrid virtual and in-person institute will provide advanced training to researchers on using digital geospatial and...
- The University of Pittsburgh was awarded $349,797 under a Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program. The grant will support the development of Version 3.0 of the World Historical Gazetteer platform, which links knowledge about the past through place-based data. Key products and services include doubling the size of the gazetteer's multi-lingual and multi-valent records, enhancing features to support teaching and...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $349,650 project grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169) to Pharos: The International Photo Archives Association. The grant will enable Pharos, a collaboration among 14 North American and European art historical photo archives, to create an open and freely accessible digital research platform. This platform will provide consolidated access to photo archive images and associated...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $245,880 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169) to Columbia University's History Lab. The grant will fund the development and delivery of training workshops for archivists and historians on open-source tools and workflows for archiving, aggregating, and exploring large collections of digitized and born-digital records. The workshops will include hands-on training, expert...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $135,691 Project Grant to the University of Southern California under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169) to develop open-source tools and methods for identifying and linking text on scanned historical maps to online resources. Working with partners at major cultural institutions, the University of Southern California will apply machine learning to enable researchers and the public to search,...
- The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Inc., a nonprofit organization, received a $348,641 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) to build an open-source georeferencing platform called AllMaps. This platform will enable hundreds of cultural institutions worldwide to align their digitized map collections with real-world geographies, making the collections more vibrant and accessible for scholars, educators, and the...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $149,934 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169) to Northeastern University. The grant will support the development of machine learning tools and cataloging workflows to provide access to Northeastern's large collection of over 1 million photographic prints from the Boston Globe photo morgue. The project aims to create open-source software and processes that can be leveraged by...
- This $246,320 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) will fund the "Illuminating the Past: A Summer Institute on Multispectral Imaging and Cultural Heritage Preservation" initiative. This transformative program is designed to cultivate the next generation of experts in digital humanities, focusing on cultural heritage recovery through advanced imaging technologies. The initiative...
- The Johns Hopkins University was awarded a $410,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169) to support the Humanities Open Book Program from May 1, 2018 through October 31, 2020. The Office of Digital Humanities program aims to support innovative humanities projects utilizing or studying the impact of digital technologies. This award specifically funds the Humanities Open Book Program,...
- The Columbia University History Lab will receive $494,798 from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program to host an Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities from September 2022 through August 2025. The Institute will offer training to archivists and historians through in-person summer workshops on processing and making text data accessible for digital humanities research. Each workshop cohort of...
This three-year, $399,376 National Endowment for the Humanities project grant supports the development of the Metapolis digital research infrastructure platform at Harvard University. Funded under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program, Metapolis aims to spatially reconstruct historical places through archival sources. As an interactive map-based publication platform, it will enable users to cross-reference archival, bibliographic and multimedia sources with interpretive research. Built on the open-source ResearchSpace semantic web environment, Metapolis facilitates the reuse and publishing of linked open data. Key features include data enrichment through external knowledge bases such as VIAF, Wikidata, OCLC and Getty vocabularies. Designed as both a research and publication tool, the software allows humanities scholars to connect research findings through layered historical maps linked to sources, building knowledge about world history.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $199.7k | 8/24/22 | ||
| Not listed | $199.7k | 8/24/22 |