The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $551,808 to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) for the period of September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2024. Under this federal Project Grant, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Center for Digital Research in the Humanities will digitize an estimated 100,000 newspaper pages from 1854 to 1963 published in Nebraska. The digitized...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $428,609 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129) to the Nebraska Humanities Council, operating as Humanities Nebraska. The grant, with a performance period from November 1, 2024 to October 31, 2029, supports Humanities Nebraska's mission to bring the humanities to life through subawards and public programming tailored to the needs, resources, and interests of communities across...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Texas A & M University $349,067 under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program (CFDA 45.149) from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2026. The university will publish an open access corpus of Syriac literature in English translation along with tools to automate digitization, encoding, and markup of Syriac textual resources. It will contextualize the text corpus by integrating linked data from an online...
The Indiana University Iupui was awarded a $554,587.08 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to implement an online text-editing platform for scholarly editions from October 1, 2018 to April 30, 2022. The award was funded through the National Endowment for the Humanities' Office of Digital Humanities Promotion of the Humanities program, which provides support under assistance listing 45.169 for innovative digital humanities projects utilizing emerging technologies....
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $555,959.75 Project Grant to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln through its Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) for the period of January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2021. Under this award, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will produce a scholarly edition of the complete letters of American author Willa Cather. As the parent organization of the awardee, the University of Nebraska system will oversee this project....
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 University of Nebraska was awarded $608,414 under a Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program. The grant will support the creation of a digital library of Willa Cather's literary manuscripts from September 1, 2022 through January 31, 2026. The Willa Cather Archive will digitize Cather's pre-publication works currently held across various repositories, making them accessible through high-resolution...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) has awarded a $316,626 project grant to The Ohio State University to create a digital collection of 115 digitized Victorian-era "part-issue" novels. The project, titled "The Part Issue Project: Making 19th-Century Serial Temporality Discoverable and Accessible in HathiTrust," will collaborate with partner libraries to inspect, conserve, and...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $338,357 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) program to Northeastern University for the "STC^2: SCALABLE TEXT COLLATION FOR THE SHORT TITLE CATALOGUE OF EARLY PRINTED BOOKS" project. This Level III 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...
The University of Oklahoma, through its Office of Research Administration, has been awarded a $349,887 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The grant will enable the Coptic Scriptorium Project to expand its digital database of richly annotated Coptic texts, which are crucial for academic disciplines and the heritage community of Coptic Orthodox Christians. This 3-year project,...