Project Grant HAA29035623

This $349,987 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) supports the development of the HUMDRUM(R) software tools and datasets for computational musicology analysis. The project, titled "HUMDRUM(R): Computational Tools for Musicological and Ethnomusicological Research", aims to expand the existing HUMDRUM framework to facilitate a complete digital musicology workflow, including reading and analyzing data,...

This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169) provides $350,000 to Northeastern University to refine and scale the Digital Archive of Indigenous Language Persistence Translation Interface (DAILP TI) prototype. The DAILP TI is a digital tool that leverages lexical datasets and resources to produce digital edited collections of translated and annotated indigenous language documents. The funding will enable...

The Indiana University Iupui was awarded a $554,587.08 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to implement an online text-editing platform for scholarly editions from October 1, 2018 to April 30, 2022. The award was funded through the National Endowment for the Humanities' Office of Digital Humanities Promotion of the Humanities program, which provides support under assistance listing 45.169 for innovative digital humanities projects utilizing emerging technologies....

The Internet Archive received a $319,880 National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (CFDA 45.312) to expand and enhance the Archives Research Compute Hub (ARCH), an open-source platform supporting computational analysis of web archives collections. The project will create user-informed workflows and continue software development to enable a diverse set of library, archive, and museum partners to add collections to ARCH for upload, discovery, and computational...

This $448,129 project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, will create crucial training datasets predominantly optimized for speech recognition (speech-to-text) in three underrepresented American sociolinguistic contexts: a sociolect, a code-switching language context, and an indigenous language. The methodology for co-creating these datasets with communities prioritizes building agency, skills, and...

This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) provides $349,993 to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to add discographic data for 12,000 recordings by the American Record Corporation (ARC) from the 1920s and 1930s to UCSB's Discography of American Historical Recordings (DAHR) database. The project will also digitize 8,500 record sides from 1922 through 1938...

The Arhoolie Foundation received a $201,298 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Save America's Treasures (CFDA 15.929) program. The grant will fund the preservation and digitization of the Foundation's collection of approximately 500 posters and 700 audiovisual recordings related to the history of Arhoolie Records and its founder, Chris Strachwitz. Project activities will include prioritizing materials for digitization, developing...

This $149,999 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) supports the "Making the Digital Dance" project at the University of Alabama. The project aims to develop digital infrastructure and tools to increase access to archival dance information across four existing digital performing arts archives. Key project activities include: Prototyping a dance data commons based on the Wikidata integration model...

The University of Illinois, Chicago Library was awarded a $250,891 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), under the Save America's Treasures federal grant program (CFDA 15.929), to digitize, preserve, and provide public access to 781 audio and video recordings from the Chicago in the City2000 collection. The collection documents Chicago and its inhabitants during the year 2000 through photographs, interviews, and soundscapes. Project staff and student...

This federal Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Native American and Native Hawaiian Library Services (CFDA 45.311) program aims to preserve and perpetuate the linguistic connection between Hawaiian mele (song and poetry) and hula (dance). The $150,000 grant awarded to Kahuli LEO Lea, a minority-owned Native Hawaiian organization, will fund the creation of educational resources including audio/video recordings, lyric sheets, webinars, and...