Project Grant RB5010210

The University of Rochester was awarded a $299,748 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to support the publication of 6 volumes in the Middle English Text Series (METS) and the implementation of a redesigned digital edition to enhance user access and interaction. The METS series, now in its 32nd year, aims to make available critical editions of medieval vernacular texts from Britain spanning the 13th...

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...

The Medici Archive Project Inc. was awarded a $350,000 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 two-year grant will support the organization's "AVVISO: PUBLISHING THE NEWS THAT MADE US MODERN (1537-1743)" project. From September 2021 through August 2023, The Medici Archive Project Inc. will promote preserving and providing intellectual access to primary...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $393,370 supports the development of EditionCrafter, an open-source digital publication tool for the history of science and technology. Awarded on August 1, 2022 with a completion date of July 31, 2024, the funding is provided through the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The awardee, Columbia University, will develop EditionCrafter to integrate digitized technical manuscripts with original research such as...

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. The grant, titled "STC^2: Scalable Text Collation for the Short Title Catalogue of Early Printed Books," 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...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $595,690 provides funding from July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2025 to develop new techniques for unsupervised Islamic manuscript transcription via lacunae reconstruction. The award is made through the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to support investigator-initiated research and education in all areas of computing, communications, and information science and engineering. Specifically, the...

The University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries and Museum will receive $480,885 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program to carry out a digitization and cataloging project for an at-risk audiovisual collection held by the Institute of Texan Cultures. Key deliverables include cataloging, rehousing, and moving thousands of collection items to climate-controlled storage; digitizing prioritized at-risk items; and providing practical...

The University of Utah will enhance catalog records for visual books held in libraries through the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program (CFDA 45.149). Funded at $285,706 for the period of June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2026, this Project Grant will support hiring a full-time project assistant to add metadata to OCLC catalog records. The Preservation and Access program aims to ensure long-term intellectual access...

The Museum of Contemporary Photography received a $519,181 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program to digitize and catalog approximately 6,000 artworks from its permanent collection. The grant will support hiring and training two curatorial assistants who will research and update artist biographies and catalog content based on surveys with artists, their agents, and families. This project will result in increased public...

The Civil War and Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi Project (CWRGM) received a three-year, $349,860 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program. CWRGM is developing an open-access digital documentary edition of over 20,000 documents from the papers of nine Mississippi governors spanning 1859 to 1882. To date, the project team has made nearly 7,000 documents available on their Omeka-S-based...