Project Grant PW22684415

The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) was awarded a $286,330 two-year Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The grant will enable RIT to arrange, describe, and digitize significant collections in the Deaf Studies, Culture, and History Archives (DSA). Specifically, the project will: 1) hire an archivist to survey unprocessed collections, arrange and describe the materials to...

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...

Under a USD 366,325 Project Grant awarded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (CFDA 45.313 - Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program), Dr. Kevin J. Mallary at Old Dominion University Research Foundation will conduct multiple case studies at five academic institutions. Through interviews with academic librarians, disability services coordinators, and deaf/hard of hearing (D/HH) students, the project will elicit insights on accessible library services for D/HH patrons. The findings...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $149,821 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169) to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) to develop a solution that will make hundreds of thousands of primary texts accessible to blind students and scholars. The project, titled "Digital Accessibility for Blind Scholars of Antiquity," aims to progress blind students and scholars toward more...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded the Dallas Holocaust Museum $331,726 under the Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301) for a project grant running from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2023. The museum will use the funding to catalog and digitize their remaining collection of 4,008 items documenting the history of the Holocaust and human rights in a local context. This includes diaries, letters, photographs, and 3D objects. Specifically, the museum will create...

The Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc. received a $350,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support a large-scale digitization project of moving image content held in its archives. Funded under the NEH's Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149), the three-year project will digitize 3,336 performances, talks, classes, oral histories and special events recorded between 1992 and 2009 that are currently only...

The Bishop Museum was awarded a $491,368 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169). The grant will support the "Mau Ka Leo" project to digitize the Museum's collections and make them publicly accessible online through narrative components and multimedia created by Hawaiian staff. Specifically, the project will retain 15 positions and hire a digital humanities specialist to...

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 Gallery of Glosses project, funded by a $299,670 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program, aims to produce an open digital platform and community focused on medieval manuscript glosses. Saint Louis University serves as the awardee to deliver an accessible and flexible workflow platform centered on annotations and marginalia preserved in manuscripts of various genres authoritative during the...

This $510,213.00 project grant awarded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program will enable Historic Hudson Valley, a non-profit organization, to digitize and catalog a collection of 3,500 manuscripts. The project will also involve transcribing selections from the collection and creating an online public portal to provide access to the digitized materials. This will allow Historic Hudson Valley staff to better understand, care...