Project Grant HT28820722
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure provides $159,341 to support the Alexandria Archive Institute in developing interoperable data systems and best practices for the geoscience community. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the award period is from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2025. Specifically, the Institute will improve the interoperability and reproducibility of...
- The Alexandria Archive Institute, a non-profit organization, received a $699,475 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the National Leadership Grants (CFDA 45.312) program. The 3-year project, starting on August 1, 2023, aims to lead a network of cultural heritage stakeholders to investigate, develop, demonstrate, and promote more equitable cultural heritage data curation practices. Specifically, the project will reconcile the apparent social and technical...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $270,834 Project Grant through its Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the Alexandria Archive Institute, a non-profit technology company, for a 5-year project titled "OPEN CONTEXT: SUSTAINING A COLLABORATIVE DATA INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ARCHAEOLOGY". The project aims to sustain and enhance the Open Context platform, which has emerged as a globally recognized platform for reviewing, curating, and publishing...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $700,000 to Bard College through its Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to develop the International Digital Dura-Europos Archive project from July 1, 2022 to May 31, 2025. The International Digital Dura-Europos Archive project aims to increase global access to and understanding of cultural heritage artifacts and data from the important archaeological site of Dura-Europos in Syria. Using linked...
- This three-year, $350,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program will support the American Research Center in Egypt, Inc. to digitize and provide open online access to 26 collections from its conservation archives. These archives document over 7,000 years of Egyptian culture and history at prehistoric, pharaonic, Coptic, Islamic, and Jewish sites across Egypt. By September 2025, the American Research...
- 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 awarded a $249,991 Project Grant to New York University under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161). The grant will fund "The Antefixa Project," a scholarly digital initiative to document and explain the contributions of diverse artistic communities in ancient Italy between 500-75 BCE. The project applies humanistic, digital, computational, and scientific methods to archaeological remains of sacred sculpture to...
- The Columbia University History Lab will receive $494,798 from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program to host an Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities from September 2022 through August 2025. The Institute will offer training to archivists and historians through in-person summer workshops on processing and making text data accessible for digital humanities research. Each workshop cohort of...
- 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 $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 Alexandria Archive Institute will receive $480,624 under a three-year Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Office of Digital Humanities. The grant will support the "Networking Archaeological Data and Communities" program, which aims to make archaeological data and skills for understanding data more broadly accessible. Key products and services will include professional development workshops for archaeologists on topics like ethically managing data, preparing data for publication, and developing public-facing digital projects. Participants will bridge theoretical and practical aspects of data to develop an open access "Data Literacy for Archaeologists" guide. The program is expected to catalyze collaborative outcomes and individually-driven projects meeting participant needs. It builds on the awardee's prior work publishing archaeological data and providing data literacy instruction.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $240.3k | 8/8/22 | ||
| Not listed | $240.3k | 8/8/22 |