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...
This $338,357 federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (CFDA 45.169 - Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities), will fund the "STC^2: Scalable Text Collation for the Short Title Catalogue of Early Printed Books" project at Northeastern University. The 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. This will...
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 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 (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 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 $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 $148,428 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) program to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for "Project Ballyhoo: Analyzing Publicity Text and Promotional Image Reuse Across 20th Century Digitized Periodical Collections." This 2-year project (2/1/2025 to 1/31/2027) will utilize the Media History Digital Library collection and the university's high-performance...
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 (NEH) awarded a $150,000 Digital Humanities Advancement Grant (CFDA 45.169) to Urban Archive, Inc., a Brooklyn-based non-profit organization, to implement Phase 4 of their Collections Management and Engagement Program (CMEP). This project grant supports the enhancement of Urban Archive's award-winning digital infrastructure, which provides a location-based digital platform and collections management system to enable cultural organizations across New York...