Project Grant PW26419919

The Boston Public Library Fund, Inc. received a $261,241 Project Grant award 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 Boston Public Library's Community History & Digitization Project, which aims to identify, digitize, preserve, and contextualize community-based archival collections for inclusion in the Boston Research Center. Key deliverables include examining,...

The Boston Public Library Fund, Inc., a non-profit organization, received a $152,802 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). This second cycle of the National Digital Newspaper Program grant will allow the Boston Public Library to contribute an additional 100,000 pages of digital newspapers published in Massachusetts between 1690 and 1963 to the Library of Congress' Chronicling...

This three-year, $399,376 National Endowment for the Humanities project grant supports the development of the Metapolis digital research infrastructure platform at Harvard University. Funded under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program, Metapolis aims to spatially reconstruct historical places through archival sources. As an interactive map-based publication platform, it will enable users to cross-reference archival, bibliographic and multimedia sources with...

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,...

This $170,710 National Science Foundation project grant, awarded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), will fund collaborative research by Bryn Mawr College to reconstruct the landscape of one of the earliest urban centers in the United States. The researchers will conduct a high-resolution magnetometry survey covering over 5.5 square kilometers to map archaeological features below the surface. This will be the largest such survey ever performed in the...

The City of Boston Police Department (BPD) received a $533,200 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance, funded through the DNA Backlog Reduction Program (CFDA 16.741). The grant supports a collaborative effort between BPD, the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office, Massachusetts State Police, and the FBI to reopen up to 50 unsolved homicide cases in Boston. Key activities include identifying unsolved homicides with DNA evidence, locating and...

The Boston Children's Museum will receive $220,175 from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to develop the "Our City" exhibition through community outreach and engagement. The Museum seeks to preserve humanities collections and staff by working with community members to identify meaningful objects from existing holdings, record oral histories, and install object vignettes and audio guides. Activities include...

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 City of Boston Police Department (BPD) received a $142,079 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Missing Alzheimer's Disease Patient Assistance Program (CFDA 16.015). The funding will be used to provide locative tracking technology (radio frequency tracking) to 275 families of individuals with dementia or developmental disabilities who have a tendency to wander, as well as 50 emergency ID bracelets. This grant supports the...

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...