The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded SEASR (Software Environment for the Advancement of Scholarly Research) project is building digital humanities cyberinfrastructure.
Here's an excerpt about the project from its home page:
What can SEASR do for scholars?
- help scholars to access existing large data stores more readily
- provide scholars with enhanced data synthesis and query analysis: from focused data retrieval and data integration, to intelligent human-computer interactions for knowledge access, to semantic data enrichment, to entity and relationship discovery, to knowledge discovery and hypothesis generation
- empower collaboration among scholars by enhancing and innovating virtual research environments
What kind of innovations does SEASR provide for the humanities?
- a complete, fully integrated, state-of-the-art software environment for managing structured and unstructured data and analyzing digital libraries, repositories and archives, as well as educational platforms
- an open source, end-to-end software system that enables researchers to develop, evolve, and maintain data interoperability, evaluation, analysis, and visualization
Read more about it at "Placing SEASR within the Digital Library Movement."
