The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $149,660 Project Grant to Macalester College under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169). The grant aims to update the "Seventeen Moments in Soviet History" digital humanities archive, which has attracted over 700,000 unique visitors annually despite its outdated design. The project will enhance the archive's functionality by improving ADA compliance, accessibility, and...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $148,015 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169) to The Corporation Of Haverford College, doing business as Haverford College. The grant, awarded on October 1, 2023, will fund the development of three pedagogical and scholarly tools for the BRIDGE, an existing digital ecosystem that supports the encoding and reading of ancient Greek and Latin texts. The key products to be...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $494,752 Project Grant to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) for the "Senegal Liberations Project: A Scholarly Digital Collaboration". This 3-year project (10/1/2024 - 12/31/2027) will make accessible and provide an interpretive framework for a rich set of primary documents - the registers of slave liberation in colonial Senegal. The project aims to generate new perspectives on pathways out of slavery...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded Middlebury College $408,811.90 under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169) from September 1, 2016 through December 31, 2018. The NEH Office of Digital Humanities supports innovative projects utilizing digital technology to advance humanities research and education. Under this Project Grant, Middlebury College developed "Scholarship in Sound and Image" to support innovative humanities...
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 National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Texas A & M University $349,067 under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program (CFDA 45.149) from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2026. The university will publish an open access corpus of Syriac literature in English translation along with tools to automate digitization, encoding, and markup of Syriac textual resources. It will contextualize the text corpus by integrating linked data from an online...
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 (NEH) awarded a $149,779 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) program to The Living New Deal Project. The grant funding will enhance The Living New Deal's contributions to digital humanities by: 1) auditing and upgrading existing data, 2) incorporating U.S. Census spatial and population data to expand the scope, 3) piloting methods for locating additional regional demographic data that can be...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $345,896 Humanities Collections and Reference Resources implementation grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library organization. The two-year grant, effective July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2026, will fund the digitization of and permanent online access to nine local history collections from seven public libraries across the...
The University of Massachusetts at Amherst received a $370,488 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to enhance the digital framework of the Tasso in Music Project. Funded under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities CFDA 45.169 program, the University will expand the range of editions' formats to include Braille notation, creating one of the largest accessible musical repositories for the visually impaired. Additionally, given the analytical...