Project Grant TR28543722

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $700,000 to Bard College through its Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to develop the International Digital Dura-Europos Archive project from July 1, 2022 to May 31, 2025. The International Digital Dura-Europos Archive project aims to increase global access to and understanding of cultural heritage artifacts and data from the important archaeological site of Dura-Europos in Syria. Using linked...

The Bay Area Video Coalition, Incorporated (BAVC) received a $215,186 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program. The grant will fund a national study of audiovisual preservation to be conducted between March 2023 and February 2025. As part of the study, BAVC will design and implement surveys, interviews, and site visits to assess the demographics, practices, challenges, and needs of organizations...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the Atlantic City Free Public Library a $123,000 project grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to create "The Atlantic City Experience Research Library Digital Repository" from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022. The library will use the funding to digitize and provide online access to its cultural heritage collections documenting the contributions of the African...

This three-year, $350,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program will support the American Research Center in Egypt, Inc. to digitize and provide open online access to 26 collections from its conservation archives. These archives document over 7,000 years of Egyptian culture and history at prehistoric, pharaonic, Coptic, Islamic, and Jewish sites across Egypt. By September 2025, the American Research...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $348,655 Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant to the University of Delaware's Center for Historic Architecture and Design to stabilize and disseminate its archive of vanishing historic architecture from the Mid-Atlantic region. This two-year grant, running from June 2024 to November 2026, will support the processing and public release of 1,800 "born-digital" historic property documentation records collected...

The City of Houston's Houston Public Library will preserve existing oral history recordings relevant to the city's history and collect new recordings documenting the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on race and social justice issues. Funded by a $100,000 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' National Leadership Grants program, the library will convert legacy collections to more stable audiovisual formats, migrate materials to an updated online accessible platform, and...

The Avon Free Public Library was awarded a $116,606 Save America's Treasures Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to preserve and digitize historically significant materials. Under the award, set to run from November 2022 through October 2024, the library will focus on digitizing collections from four 19th century farmsteads, an 18th century house, and a Gothic Revival schoolhouse that are part of the Pine Grove Historic District. Additionally, materials from the...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $349,650 project grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169) to Pharos: The International Photo Archives Association. The grant will enable Pharos, a collaboration among 14 North American and European art historical photo archives, to create an open and freely accessible digital research platform. This platform will provide consolidated access to photo archive images and associated...

The Library Company of Philadelphia was awarded a $700,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). Over a three-year period from January 2023 to December 2025, the grant will fund the Library Company Papers Project to comprehensively review, process, and digitize the Library Company's institutional records from 1731 to 1880. This will preserve early American history contained...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $451,162 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to Appalshop Inc., a non-profit media and arts organization in Whitesburg, Kentucky. The grant will fund the treatment and digitization of three major Appalachian photonegative collections that were damaged by flooding in July 2022. The project will preserve and provide access to images documenting Eastern Kentucky and...