This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities' (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169) provides $150,000 to Northeastern University to investigate the relationship between digitized early print materials and their physical source documents. The project aims to develop state-of-the-art handwriting detection models that can be used for bibliographic research tasks across digital collections of early printed works. The models and accompanying code/documentation will be released for use by students, researchers, and librarians. This work responds to calls in digital bibliography to treat digitized materials as distinct bibliographic objects, moving beyond simple digitization and data collection. The 24-month project period runs from February 2025 to January 2027.
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