The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $350,000 Project Grant under the Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), a nonprofit preservation organization. Through this 2-year award, NEDCC will provide a range of preservation services and training resources to support the long-term care and stewardship of paper-based, photographic, audiovisual, and digital collections at cultural institutions across the...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Documentary Educational Resources Inc. a $99,899 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program (CFDA 45.149). The grant funded the CINEPEDIA ETHNOGRAPHICA project to develop an online expert- and user-generated union catalog for ethnographic film. The catalog will provide intellectual access and help preserve primary ethnographic film resources held in libraries, museums, and...
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), through its Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149), awarded a $349,009 Project Grant to the Northeast Document Conservation Center, Inc. (NEDCC) to develop tools and workflows for preserving digital audio tape (DAT) collections. The project aims to address the lack of accessible preservation solutions for accurately transferring audio and metadata from the at-risk DAT format, which is likely to contain unique content. The key...
The Bay Area Video Coalition, Incorporated (BAVC) received a $215,186 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program. The grant will fund a national study of audiovisual preservation to be conducted between March 2023 and February 2025. As part of the study, BAVC will design and implement surveys, interviews, and site visits to assess the demographics, practices, challenges, and needs of...
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...
This $245,880 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) supports the development of new open-source tools and workflows by Columbia University's History Lab to address the challenge of archiving, aggregating, and exploring large collections of digitized and born-digital records. The project will leverage this experience to offer training to archivists and historians, encourage dialogue between them, identify...
The Regents of the University of California, Berkeley was awarded a two-year, $280,883 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program (CFDA 45.149). The grant will support moving the Philobiblon database, which has supported research on medieval Iberia since 1975, from four siloed databases to an online Wikibase/FactGrid platform. This will map the database's complex relational data...
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 $495,326 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. This cooperative agreement will fund the updating and enhancement of the National Inventory of Humanities Organizations (NIHO), a data resource developed under a previous NEH award. The project aims to: 1) identify a wider universe of humanities nonprofit organizations, 2) rigorously clean and code...