The Office of Digital Humanities is pleased to announce awards through the Digital Humanities Advancement Grants program.
These 13 projects are part of a larger slate of 219 awards announced by NEH. We are truly excited about this round of awards, which demonstrate the breadth of groundbreaking work currently being done in digital humanities, including large-scale computational analysis of early-twentieth century periodicals and mass communication and the enhancement of the cyberSW archaeology platform. Congratulations to all the award recipients on these exciting projects!
Digital Humanities Advancement Grants
This program is funded in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Level I
Level One awards offered up to $75,000 to support small research projects or early stages of larger projects.
Primary Institution: University of Kentucky
Project Directors: Andrew M. Byrd and Daniel Aaron Law (University of Texas, Austin)
Project Title: DERBi PIE: a Database of Etymological Roots Beginning in Proto-Indo-European
Project Description: The development and testing of a prototype database of early Indo-European languages, in partnership with the Linguistics Research Center at the University of Texas.
Primary Institution: Syracuse University
Project Directors: Meghan Kelly, Jonnell Robinson, and Andre Ortega
Project Title: Feminist Mapping: Developing an alternative approach to map symbolization, iconography, and an open-source symbol library.
Project Description: An empirical study investigating alternative map icons, a conference on map symbolization and innovative mapping tools, and creation of a research agenda that re-envisions conventional map icon libraries.
Primary Institution: University of California, Santa Barbara
Project Directors: Juan Cobo Betancourt and Santiago Muñoz-Arbeláez (University of Texas, Austin)
Project Title: Digitization toolkit: a blueprint for egalitarian access to technology in low resource environments[AF1]
Project Description: A prototype toolkit and user documentation to allow lower-resourced cultural heritage organizations to digitize collections at low cost.
Primary Institution: University of Idaho
Project Directors: Devin Becker and Sarah Campbell
Project Title: Digital Dramaturgy
Project Description: Development and testing of open-source software designed for scholars and students to analyze and annotate dramatic texts.
Level II
Level Two awards offer up to $150,000 to support projects that have completed an initial planning phase and are poised to scale up.
Primary Institution: University of Wisconsin
Project Director: Eric Hoyt
Project Title: Project Ballyhoo: Analyzing Publicity Text and Promotional Image Reuse across 20th Century Digitized Periodical Collections
Project Description: Large-scale computational analysis of U.S. periodicals from the early twentieth century to better understand the broad cultural impacts of mass communication and publicity.
Primary Institution: The Living New Deal Project
Project Directors: Richard Averill Walker, Elena Ion, and Maria Okin
Project Title: Enhancing the Living New Deal's Contribution to Digital Humanities
Project Description: Enhancement of a website publishing comprehensive data on landmarks enabled by the New Deal. The project includes a data audit, incorporation of demographic and spatial data, and new tools for data sharing.
Primary Institution: Urban Archive, Inc
Project Director: Benjamin Smyth
Project Title: Urban Archive: Collections Management and Engagement Program, Phase 4
Project Description: The development of new features for Urban Archive’s digital infrastructure, which serves as a collections management system and location-based digital platform for cultural organizations.
Primary Institution: University of Southern California
Project Directors: Sean Fraga, Peter Mancall, and Curtis Fletcher
Project Title: Booksnake: Development and Dissemination of a Scholarly App for Comparing Digitized Archival Materials in Physical Space using Augmented Reality
Project Description: Development and testing of new features for the Booksnake mobile app that projects digitized primary sources into interactive 3D spaces to enhance humanities teaching and learning.
Primary Institution: Wichita State University
Project Director: Darren DeFrain
Project Title: Empowering Accessible Digital Humanities through the Vizling Content Creator
Project Description: Development and testing of content creation features in the Vizling app that converts multimodal texts into fully accessible versions for blind and low-vision users.
Level III
Level Three awards offer up to $350,000 in outright funds, and an additional $50,000 in matching funds. They support the expansion of mature projects with an established user base and strong dissemination plans.
Primary Institution: Archaeology Southwest
Project Directors: Joshua Watts and Caitlynn Mayhew
Project Title: Expanding cyberSW: From Archaeological Research to Cultural Revitalization
Project Description: The enhancement of the cyberSW archaeology platform by including Indigenous cultural and language content relating to plant and animal Cultural Keystone Species and a redesign of the platform to make it more user-friendly, including on mobile devices.
Primary Institution: Northeastern University
Project Directors: David Smith and Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick (University of California, San Diego)
Project Title: STC^2: Scalable Text Collation for the Short Title Catalogue of Early Printed Books
Project Description: Development of new methods and open-source software to improve accuracy and fill textual gaps in a digitized bibliographic catalogue of nearly 250,000 early modern English books.
Primary Institution: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
Project Directors: Nathaniel Condit-Schultz and Claire Arthur
Project Title: humdrum(R): computational tools for musicological and ethnomusicological research
Project Description: The development of software enhancements, accompanied by additional outreach activities, for the humdrum(R) software platform for computational music analysis.
Primary Institution: Northeastern University
Project Director: Ellen Cushman
Project Title: Refinement and Scaling of the Digital Archive of Indigenous Language Persistence Translation Interface (DAILP TI)
Project Description: The addition of new features and documentation and the expansion of the translation interface for the Digital Archive of Indigenous Language Persistence platform.