Epigraphic Interoperability Workshops

Recipient: Elliott, Thomas Robert (New York, NY 10028 USA) in affiliation with New York University (New York, NY 10012 USA)

Goal: Two joint workshops in collaboration with Heidelberg University (DFG request: 5,270 euros) to develop interoperability between the Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg (EDH), the Pleiades digital gazetteer, and the "born-digital" epigraphic publications conforming to the EpiDoc/TEI encoding standards.

Description: The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (New York University), together with the Seminar fur Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik at Heidelberg University seek support for two three-day workshops. These events will bring together key staff members with a small cadre of external advisers to develop a comprehensive plan for interoperability between a growing suite of unique, essential resources: the Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg (EDH), the Pleiades digital gazetteer and "born-digital" epigraphic publications conforming to the EpiDoc/TEI encoding standards. It is our goal to establish both the fundamental prerequisites and a solid plan for incorporating EDH into an emerging, international cyberinfrastructure that will provide scholars and students alike with seamless access, visualization and relevance across multiple, discrete resources for ancient studies.

Grant: 196346 / HW-50009-09,   Division: Digital Humanities,   Program: NEH/DFG Symposia and Workshops Program,   Year Awarded: 2009

Concordia

Recipient: Bagnall, Roger (New York, NY 10028 USA) in affiliation with New York University (New York, NY 10012 USA)

Goal: Development of technologies for integrated searching, dynamic mapping, and geographical correlation of Web-based humanities collections, focusing on existing and newly digitized papyrological and epigraphic texts related to Greek and Roman Libya and Egypt.

Description: The Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College, London joins the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University in responding to the NEH/JISC call for innovative digitization projects. Concordia is a creative and time-critical transatlantic collaboration that advances digitization priorities along two complementary axes: dissemination of key epigraphical, papyrological, and geographic resources for Greek and Roman culture in North Africa, and piloting of reusable, standard techniques for cyberinfrastructure. This demonstration project unites an array of separately produced and hosted primary source collections with a unique geographic dataset to provide search and analysis presently available only in a few special-purpose, closed systems. The content of three existing, respected collections (including 50,000 papyrological and 3,000 epigraphic texts) are brought together with open-source software and newly digitized content (an additional 950 epigraphic texts plus complete topographic and toponymic records for over 3,000 historical geographic features) to create an unparalleled research resource for Greek and Roman Libya and Egypt. Concordia uses basic Web architecture and standard formats (XHTML, EpiDoc/TEI XML, and Atom+GeoRSS). The project would catalyze the rapid establishment of a simple, Web-based research infrastructure which takes us beyond discrete Web pages and bland hyperlinks to actionable electronic citation and cross-project discovery without continued waiting for mature international repository networks or the putative 'semantic Web'. The results of this project would be freely accessible on the Web.

Grant: 191617 / PX-50003-08,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: JISC/NEH Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration Grants,   Year Awarded: 2008

Pleiades: Creating an Interactive Internet Archive for Ancient Geography

Recipient: Talbert, Richard J. A (Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3195 USA) in affiliation with University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA)

Goal: The creation of an interactive Internet-based spatial and historical reference tool for the cartography of the ancient world, which expands and updates the NEH-supported Classical Atlas Project.

Description: Pleiades develops new mechanisms for the creation, maintenance and long-term functional preservation of humanities reference works. It establishes an international community of scholars, students and enthusiasts who collaborate in updating the information assembled by the NEH-supported Classical Atlas Project. They use a web-based, multi-lingual collaboration support system, built with open-source software and made freely available for reuse. Pleiades enforces user roles that permit each user to contribute additions and improvements to any placename, geographic location, date, bibliographic reference or explanatory essay in the dataset, while facilitating rigorous review preparatory to publication in print and digital formats.

Grant: 179398 / PA-51873-06,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Preservation/Access Projects,   Year Awarded: 2006

Telling Pennsylvania's Civil War Stories: New Narratives from Old Collections

Recipient: Shopes, Linda (Harrisburg, PA 17120 USA) in affiliation with Pennsylvania Heritage Society

Goal: Consultation to develop programs throughout Pennsylvania on the impact of the Civil War on the state's communities, including long-term changes that grew out of the war.

Grant: 179920 / MC-50015-06,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums Consultation,   Year Awarded: 2006

Trajan's Column: Narratives of War and Civilization in the Roman Empire

Recipient: Talbert, Richard J. A (Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3195 USA) in affiliation with American Academy in Rome (New York, NY 10022 USA)

Goal: A five-week seminar for fifteen college and university teachers to study themes and events of the Roman empire on site in Rome, Italy, as they are reflected in the column that was constructed as a memorial to Trajan's victory over the Dacians in the second century CE.

Grant: 176904 / FS-50084-05,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for College Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2005

The Laws of Ancient Crete

Recipient: Gagarin, Michael (Austin, TX 78712 USA) in affiliation with University of Texas, Austin

Goal: Publication, both in print and online, of the Greek texts of extant laws from ancient Crete, along with translations and commentaries. (12 months)

Description: More than 150 inscriptions containing laws or fragments of laws survive from the island of Crete. Written on stone between ca. 650 and 350 BCE, they are very important for scholars of Greek law and Greek history, as well as to historians, anthropologists, and legal historians more generally. But they are currently in accessible to non-specialists. We propose to combine our interests in law (MG), and in epigraphy (the study of inscriptions) and history (PP) to produce a collection of these laws -- Greek texts, translations, and commentaries -- that is accessible to all these potential users. We will also include 6-8 essays on these laws in relation to Greek history and law.

Grant: 175889 / RZ-50339-05,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Collaborative Research,   Year Awarded: 2005

The Great Lakes

Recipient: Dewhurst, C. Kurt (East Lansing, MI 48824 USA) in affiliation with Michigan State University

Goal: Consultation on a 90-minute documentary film about the Great Lakes region, from its glacial beginnings through the 17th century.

Grant: 172082 / GN-50455-04,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Media, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 2004

Assimilating America: The Life and Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer library stipend

Recipient: Barancik, Susan L (Bridgewater, NJ 08807 USA) in affiliation with Somerset County Library System

Goal: Implementation of public programs examining the work of writer Isaac Bashevis Singer and the immigrant literary tradition in America.

Grant: 171141 / GL-50526-04,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Libraries and Archives, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 2004

Assimilating America: The Life and Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer library stipend

Recipient: Reynolds, Marlene L (San Antonio, TX 78231 USA) in affiliation with Beldon Library

Goal: Implementation of public programs examining the work of writer Isaac Bashevis Singer and the immigrant literary tradition in America.

Grant: 171188 / GL-50573-04,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Libraries and Archives, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 2004

The Royal Pyramids of Kush Project

Recipient: Yellin, Janice W (Wellesley, MA 02457 USA) in affiliation with Babson College (Babson Park, MA 02157 USA)

Goal: The documentation and analysis of the pyramid chapels near Meroe (in modern day northern Sudan).

Grant: 161717 / RZ-20509-99,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Collaborative Research,   Year Awarded: 1999

India and Rome: Culture and Religion from Classical Middle East to the Hindu Kush

Recipient: Overman, Andrew J (St. Paul, MN 55105 USA) in affiliation with Macalester College

Grant: 154704 / FV-22326-99,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1999

Society and Culture in Roman Egypt

Recipient: Bagnall, Roger S (New York, NY 10027 USA) in affiliation with Columbia University

Grant: 151591 / FS-23125-98,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for College Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1998

Law, Society, and Democracy in Classical Athens

Recipient: Cohen, David J (Berkeley, CA 94720-2670 USA) in affiliation with University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA 94720 USA)

Grant: 151559 / FS-22996-96,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for College Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1996

Burnt Documents from Petra

Recipient: Koenen, Ludwig (Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003 USA) in affiliation with University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA)

Grant: 160291 / RL-22439-96,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Translations,   Year Awarded: 1996

Cataloging of the Papyri Collections

Recipient: Hensen, Steven L (Durham, NC 27708 USA) in affiliation with Duke University

Goal: To support cataloging, conservation treatment, and conversion to digital formatof 1,000 papyri dating from the 3rd century B.C. to the 8th century A.D.

Grant: 158911 / PS-20936-95,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Preservation/Access Projects Pre 1996,   Year Awarded: 1995

Egyptology Today

Recipient: Brier, Bob M (Greenvale, NY 11548 USA) in affiliation with Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus

Goal: To support a three-week summer institute and a lecture series on ancient Egypt for 20 elementary and secondary school humanities teachers from Long Island and Westchester County schools in New York and selected schools in Arizona.

Grant: 143518 / ES-22592-94,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1994

Cicero's Philosophical Works and the Crisis of the Roman Republic

Recipient: Gowing, Alain M (Seattle, WA 98195 USA) in affiliation with University of Washington

Grant: 154563 / FV-21895-94,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1994

Egyptian Connections

Recipient: Adelman, Linda (Santa Monica, CA 90403 USA) in affiliation with Galef Institute (Los Angeles, CA 90025-3594 USA)

Goal: To support a two-year collaborative project on ancient Egypt for 30 elemen- tary school teachers from Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Grant: 143473 / ES-22482-93,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1993

Athenian Democracy and Its Legacy

Recipient: Hamilton, Charles D (San Diego, CA 92182-8143 USA) in affiliation with San Diego State University Foundation (San Diego, CA 92182 USA)

Goal: To support a four-week summer institute on Athenian democracy for 25 California middle and secondary school social studies and history teachers.

Grant: 143462 / ES-22454-93,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1993

Pagans and Christians in the 4th-Century

Recipient: Cameron, Alan (New York, NY 10027 USA) in affiliation with Columbia University

Grant: 151383 / FS-22493-93,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for College Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1993