- $38,600
Case Studies on Sustainability for Digital Resources in the Humanities
Recipient: Brown, Laura (New York, NY 10065 USA) in affiliation with Ithaka Harbors, Inc. (New York, NY 10021 USA)
Goal: A cooperative agreement between NEH and Ithaka to perform two case studies on the topic of long-term sustainabiilty for digital scholarly projects
Description: In May 2008, Ithaka completed an initial study and report called "Sustainability and Revenue Models for Online Academic Resources." This report provided an overview of challenges facing not-far-profit content providers as they develop new models to support digital resources, and served as the basis for two follow-up workshops. These workshops brought together project leaders and funders to discuss the issues surfaced in the paper and identify promising potential areas of future research to help stimulate a more robust and sustainable environment for not-for-profit digital resources. Participants agreed that a high priority next step would be to develop a set of more detailed case studies illustrating the range of issues facing these projects and the various approaches that have been taken - both successful and unsuccessful. Ithaka subsequently secured funding for eight such case studies in the UK and Europe. This proposal requests support for two additional case studies in the US that will focus specifically on the humanities, selected in consultation with the Office of Digital Humanities. The research will analyze the successes and challenges of different sustainability strategies and revenue models, including hybrid models, and point the way toward best practices for supporting online resources. Each case study will consist of focused background research on the project selected and multiple interviews with project leaders and other stakeholders. The project will result in two case studies, each about 10 pages long, as well as a final report summarizing overall findings. In addition, Ithaka will organize a concluding workshop to discuss the outcomes of the research.
Grant: 194795 / HC-50005-09, Category: Humanities, Division: Digital Humanities, Year Awarded: 2009 - $28,599
Conference: Promoting Digital Scholarship: Research Challenges in the Humanities (Phase I & II)
Recipient: Friedlander, Amy E (Washington, DC 20036 USA) in affiliation with Council on Library and Information Resources
Description: The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is pleased to submit this proposal to the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to convene in cooperation with the Foundation a group of leading scholars for a one-day workshop to achieve two goals: (i) promote digital humanities by identifying a series of long-term research challenges at the intersection of the humanities, social sciences, and computation; and (ii) document the findings of the workshop in parallel print and electronic publications to support subsequent discussion from the concerned communities. Organizing this workshop responds to recommendations set forth by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences that call upon concerned organizations to exhibit leadership and advance digital scholarship, and is consistent with goals articulated by NEH and other public agencies.
Grant: 191167 / HC-50002-08, Category: Humanities, Division: Digital Humanities, Year Awarded: 2008 - $27,533
Workshop to Examine the Digital Needs of Documentary Editors
Recipient: Shulman, Holly C (Charlottesville, VA 22904-4180 USA) in affiliation with Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (Charlottesville, VA 22903-4629 USA)
Description: This proposal seeks [$] to fund a workshop to explore the possibilities of establishing a Center for Scholarly Electronic Documentary Editions (CSEDE). This center will provide the expertise and infrastructure to enable editors and scholars to produce digital editions, either as born-digital products or as conversions from long-standing letterpress editions. Such a center could accomplish a number of different purposes including: cost cutting through economies of scale; relieving scholars and editors of the need to acquire staff and knowledge of electronic tools; and facilitating interoperability between editions. The workshop will bring fifteen-to-seventeen different stakeholders (editors, scholars, university press representatives, and university professors) to the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities in Charlottesville to seek their advice as to how such a center might best work.
Grant: 191171 / HC-50003-08, Category: Humanities, Division: Digital Humanities, Year Awarded: 2008 - $16,064
Publication: Promoting Digital Scholarship: Research Challenges in the Humanities (Phase III)
Recipient: Friedlander, Amy E (Washington, DC 20036 USA) in affiliation with Council on Library and Information Resources
Description: The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is pleased to submit this proposal to the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to write and publish a publication that is based on the outcomes of an earlier NEH-sponsored conference entitled "Promoting Digital Scholarship: Formulating Research Challenges in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Computation."
Grant: 191294 / HC-50004-08, Category: Humanities, Division: Digital Humanities, Year Awarded: 2008 - $20,000
Digital Directors Summit Meeting
Recipient: Fraistat, Neil R (College Park, MD 20742 USA) in affiliation with University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, MD 20742-5141 USA)
Description: The purpose of this chairman's cooperative agreement is to convene a planning meeting for a coalition of digital humanities centers to be held at the NEH on April 12-13, 2007.
Grant: 186711 / HC-50001-07, Category: Humanities, Division: Digital Humanities, Year Awarded: 2007 - Endowment for the humanities grants to program Digital Humanites Cooperative Agreements; items 1-5 of 5 with a total funding of $130,796.