Project Grant HAA29640724
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities awarded Northeastern University a $338,357 Project Grant titled "STC^2: Scalable Text Collation for the Short Title Catalogue of Early Printed Books". This Level III digital humanities project aims to build open data and code infrastructure for metadata, page images, and manual and automatic transcriptions of over 242,000 early modern printed books. The project will collate manual transcripts from the Text...
- This federal Project Grant award of $149,996.00, provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) program, supports research to develop computational methods for analyzing literature in low-resource languages. The key objectives are to build a BookNLP pipeline for the Yiddish language, create new annotated training data, and document the procedures for applying this approach to other low-resource languages. The...
- This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) will support the "NAYE FARBINDUNGEN (NEW CONNECTIONS)" project led by the National Yiddish Book Center. The $150,000 project, with a performance period from August 1, 2025 to July 31, 2027, will document the surge in online Yiddish language study and community building that occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic....
- This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program provided $199,510 to the Yivo Institute For Jewish Research to digitize and provide online access to three collections in its archives. Specifically, the award supported retaining five staff members to digitize approximately 70,000 pages from the Vilna Territorial Collection, Records of the Lithuanian Jewish Community Council, and the Jewish Customs...
- 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 Klezmer Institute Inc. will receive $297,120 under a two-year Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to produce the Kelisegof-Makonovetsky Critical Editions. This project aligns with the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) by making available early 20th century European Jewish music manuscripts to broaden accessible resources and contextualize the work of renowned ethnomusicological researchers. Specifically, the Institute will edit and publish...
- 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 awarded a $349,994 Project Grant to Case Western Reserve University under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) on January 1, 2025. The grant funds the "Between Memory and the Archive: Jewish Print Culture" institute, which will take place at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at the Rochester Institute of Technology. The institute will examine the evolution of...
- 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 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 $138,319 Digital Humanities Advancement Grant (CFDA 45.169) to the National Yiddish Book Center, Inc. to develop an experimental system for improving optical character recognition (OCR) error correction on its extensive corpus of digitized Yiddish texts. This 2-year project, beginning February 1, 2024, aims to enhance the accessibility and usability of the Center's digital collection, which is expected to double to over 12,000 digitized Yiddish books by 2025 through the ongoing Universal Yiddish Library project. The experimental OCR correction system will be applied to the Center's existing 650 million-word corpus of digitized Yiddish text, improving the accuracy and quality of this invaluable cultural heritage resource for researchers and the public.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $138.3k | 1/24/24 |