Project Grant PW25899918

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) Office of Digital Humanities awarded Northeastern University a $338,357 Project Grant titled "STC^2: Scalable Text Collation for the Short Title Catalogue of Early Printed Books". This Level III digital humanities project aims to build open data and code infrastructure for metadata, page images, and manual and automatic transcriptions of over 242,000 early modern printed books. The project will collate manual transcripts from the Text...

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...

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) 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 Trustees of Indiana University will edit volumes 3, 4, and 5 of The Frederick Douglass Papers Correspondence series and volume 2 of The Journalism and Other Writings series under a $122,245 Project Grant from the National Archives and Records Administration. They will also complete phase three of migrating the ongoing digital edition to a new web platform, adding another 500 documents. This work supports the National Historical Publications and Records Grants program, which funds...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $149,934 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169) to Northeastern University. The grant will support the development of machine learning tools and cataloging workflows to provide access to Northeastern's large collection of over 1 million photographic prints from the Boston Globe photo morgue. The project aims to create open-source software and processes that can be leveraged by...

This Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), under the National Leadership Grants for Museums (CFDA 45.312) program, will fund a two-year applied research project to investigate methods for preserving personalized digital advertisements viewed live by users. The award of $398,927 to Drexel University, in collaboration with Old Dominion University, aims to develop best practice guidelines and tools for reconstructing ads from archived web content and...

This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities' (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) provides $148,428 to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to conduct "Project Ballyhoo: Analyzing Publicity Text and Promotional Image Reuse across 20th Century Digitized Periodical Collections." The project seeks to enhance computational methods for analyzing text and image reuse in early 20th century digitized periodicals, with the...

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...