NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants Awards Announced

The NEH Office of Digital Humanities has announced recent awards from its Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program.

The awards are:

  • City of Philadelphia, Department of Records—Philadelphia, PA: Historic Overlays on Smart Phones
  • Early Manuscripts Electronic Library—Rolling Hills Estates, CA: The Nyangwe Diary of David Livingstone: Restoring the Text
  • George Mason University—Fairfax, VA: Crowdsourcing Documentary Transcription: an Open Source Tool
  • Georgia Tech Research Corporation—Atlanta, GA: Gesture, Rhetoric, and Digital Storytelling
  • Pennsylvania State University, Main Campus—University Park, PA: Learning as Playing: An Animated, Interactive Archive of 17th-19th Century Narrative Media For and By Children
  • Sweet Briar College—Sweet Briar, VA: African-American Families Database: Community Formation in Albemarle County, Virginia, 1850-1880
  • University of Arizona—Tucson, AZ: Poetry Audio/Video Library Phase 2
  • University of California, Berkeley—Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Prosopography Services: Building Research Communities and Restoring Ancient Communities through Digital Tools
  • University of California, Los Angeles—Los Angeles, CA: Software Interface for Real-time Exploration of Three-Dimensional Computer Models of Historic Urban Environments
  • University of California, San Diego—La Jolla, CA: Interactive Visualization of Media Collections for Humanities Research
  • University of Chicago—Chicago, IL: Dictionnaire Vivant de la Langue Francaise (DVLF): Expanding the French Dictionary
  • University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc.—Athens, GA: Telecollaborative Webcasting:Strengthening Acquisition of Humanities Content Knowledge through Foreign Language Education
  • University of Nebraska, Board of Regents—Lincoln, NE: Sustaining Digital History
  • University of New Mexico—Albuquerque, NM: Digital Documentation and Reconstruction of an Ancient Maya Temple and Prototype of Internet GIS Database of Maya Architecture
  • University of Virginia—Charlottesville, VA: ARTeFACT Movement Thesaurus
  • University of Virginia—Charlottesville, VA: New Digital Tools for Restoring Polychromy to 3D Digital Models of Sculpture
  • University of Virginia—Charlottesville, VA: Supercomputing for Digitized 3D Models of Cultural Heritage
  • Washington State University—Pullman, WA: Mukurtu: An Indigenous Archive and Publishing Tool