Project Grant PB27430320

This $150,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) to Northeastern University supports a 24-month digital humanities research project focused on developing state-of-the-art handwriting detection models for analyzing digitized early printed materials. The project aims to investigate the relationship between digitized early print collections and their physical source materials,...

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...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $305,540 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the Wisconsin Historical Society to execute the "Wisconsin Digital Newspaper Project: Wisconsin's Tapestry of Voices" over a two-year period from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026. The project will digitize newspapers from a selection of Wisconsin's immigrant groups that were published in their native...

This Project Grant award for $194,346 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) supports a scholarly project to promote the translation and digital archiving of a unique collection of 73 Arabic field diaries documenting over 30 years of archaeological excavations (1913-1947) in Egypt and Sudan. The project, titled "Ghost Writers of Upper Egypt: A Unique Archive of Arabic Field Diaries in the Archaeological Literature of...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program awarded a $300,784 Project Grant to the Minnesota Historical Society to digitize 100,000 pages of historic Minnesota newspapers published between 1849 and 1963, with an emphasis on the period 1923-1963. This effort is part of the state's ongoing participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). The project will preserve and provide digital access to these...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), through its Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169), awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (UNL) for the project "Between the Columns: A Toolkit for Periodical Authorship Attribution and Display." This project aims to develop two interconnected innovations to assist researchers and scholars of print culture who work with periodicals: 1) an extension...

This federal Project Grant award for $245,880 from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) supports a digital humanities initiative led by Columbia University's History Lab. The project aims to develop open-source tools and workflows to address the challenges of archiving, aggregating, and exploring large digitized and born-digital collections. The funding will enable the History Lab to offer training workshops for...

The Maine State Library has been awarded a $261,184 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) National Digital Newspaper Program to digitize 100,000 pages of historical newspapers from Maine over a two-year period from September 2024 to August 2026. This project, titled "Maine Digital Newspaper Program Proposal: 2023-2026 NDNP Cycle," aims to expand public access to stories and perspectives of Maine's diverse communities by digitizing news content, including...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $319,588 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to digitize 100,000 pages of historic newspapers from Arizona. The grant will be used by the Arizona State Library, Archives & Public Records (LAPR) and the University of Arizona Libraries (UAL) to partner as co-principal investigators on the National Digital Newspaper Program. The project aims to digitize...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $349,126 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to Christiansburg Institute, Inc. The objective of this 2-year grant, with a performance period from June 2024 to May 2026, is to digitize four data-rich school and community collections related to the Christiansburg Institute, a historically Black educational institution in Virginia. The digitization effort will create...