Broadening the Digital Humanities: The Vectors-IML/UC-HRI Summer Institute on Multimodal Scholarship

Recipient: Goldberg, David Theo (Irvine, CA 92697-3350 USA) in affiliation with University of California, Irvine (Irvine, CA 92697 USA)

Goal: A four-week summer institute to investigate scholarly research methods in the digital age, to include thematic discussion seminars and hands-on workshops in collaboration with technologists.

Description: The Vectors-IML/UCHRI Summer Institute on Multimodal Scholarship is a four-week program designed for the humanities scholar who does not have a great deal of computing experience but who has begun to express an interest in the digital humanities and in digital media more broadly. The Institute will offer a new cadre of scholars the opportunity to explore the benefits of interactive media for scholarly analysis and authorship, illustrating the possibilities of multimodal media for humanities investigation. The scholars participating in our program will learn both by engaging with a variety of existing projects and also through the production of their own project in collaboration with the Vectors-IML and UCHRI teams.

Grant: 197337 / HT-50022-09,   Category: Humanities,   Division: Digital Humanities,   Year Awarded: 2009

One Week, One Tool: A Digital Humanities Barn Raising

Recipient: Scheinfeldt, Tom (Fairfax, VA 22030-4422 USA) in affiliation with George Mason University (Fairfax, VA 22030 USA)

Goal: A one week institute for twelve participants on the principles of humanities-centered tool design, development, and implementation, followed by a year of development support.

Description: For one week in June 2010, the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University will bring together a group of twelve digital humanists of diverse disciplinary backgrounds and practical experience to build a useful and useable software tool for digital humanities research. A short course of training in principles of open source software development will be followed by an intense five days of brainstorming and development. Following the workshop will be a year of continued development, testing and evaluation. The group members will be comprised of designers and programmers as well as project managers and outreach specialists. The group will conceive a tool, outline a roadmap, develop and disseminate a prototype, lay the ground work for building an open source community, and make first steps toward securing sustainable funding for the project.

Grant: 197336 / HT-50021-09,   Category: History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine,   Division: Digital Humanities,   Year Awarded: 2009

Network Analysis for the Humanities

Recipient: Tangherlini, Timothy R (Los Angeles, CA 90095-1537 USA) in affiliation with University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA)

Goal: A ten-day workshop and follow-up symposium for humanities faculty members and advanced graduate students on the use of large-scale network analysis for humanities topics and questions.

Description: We propose to host an Institute in Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities focusing on techniques for the discovery, visualization and analysis of networks in Humanities corpuses. Networks in this context are broadly defined to include both external networks (networks of production, networks of circulation, networks of influence, and networks of reception) and internal networks (networks of characters, networks of text, networks of language) in the data. The institute will consist of two main parts: a ten day intensive institute, taking place over two weeks in June 2010, and a shorter three day research symposium in June 2011. Both events will be housed at NSF's Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics on UCLA's campus.

Grant: 197331 / HT-50016-09,   Category: Interdisciplinary,   Division: Digital Humanities,   Year Awarded: 2009

Humanities Gaming Institute: Serious Games for Research and Pedagogy

Recipient: Buell, Duncan A (Columbia, SC 29208 USA) in affiliation with University of South Carolina Research Foundation

Goal: A three-week institute on the role of immersive, interactive technologies and games within the context of the humanities, with a year of follow-up support for the twenty participants.

Description: We propose a three-week Institute on Humanities Gaming to develop the intellectual frameworks necessary to support gaming as an active area of humanities research and pedagogy. Our institute aims to reduce the technical barriers to the adoption of gaming as a research and teaching platform by leveraging investments in the infrastructure of computing and digital media. The institute will (a) investigate the cognitive components of games that inform and enable successful game play, including immersive structure, rule governance, interactivity, and simulation; (b) provide hands-on research into existing serious games from a variety of fields, including history, literature, linguistics, philosophy, and economics; (c) produce, under the guidance of experienced game developers, games that can scale to meet participants' research and teaching needs in the humanities.

Grant: 197340 / HT-50025-09,   Category: Interdisciplinary,   Division: Digital Humanities,   Year Awarded: 2009

Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship

Recipient: Nowviskie, Bethany (Charlottesville, VA 22904-4129 USA) in affiliation with University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA 22903 USA)

Goal: The creation of two institutes, aimed at scholars, librarians, museum officials, and advanced graduate students, to explore how geospatial technologies like Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can be used for teaching, learning, and research in the humanities.

Description: The Scholars' Lab at the University of Virginia Library requests $162,457 from NEH to host two rounds of an Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, on the theme of Enabling Geospatial Scholarship. The first four-day event would invite 20 competitively selected library, museum, and digital humanities center professionals to shape policy and begin building the technical capacity of the institutions they represent, to support boundary-pushing geospatial scholarship. Ongoing work in implementing a standards-based, open source infrastructure for discovery, delivery, and manipulation of geospatial data would be supported through an online clearinghouse and open-access community to be maintained long-term by the Scholars' Lab. The second Institute would invite 20 humanities scholars and advanced graduate students to train with and critique the open source and standards-based GIS tools and geospatial approaches to humanities scholarship being developed by the University of Virginia Library.

Grant: 197330 / HT-50015-09,   Category: Geography,   Division: Digital Humanities,   Year Awarded: 2009

Humanities High Performance Computing Collaboratory (HpC): Coordinating High Performance Computing Institutes and the Digital

Recipient: Franklin, Kevin D (Urbana, IL 61801 USA) in affiliation with University of Illinois, Urbana

Goal: A total of nine institutes and one joint conference for humanities scholars, to be hosted by three different high-performance computer centers: the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, and the San Diego Supercomputer Center.

Description: The Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will lead a collaboration partnering the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), the Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center (PSC), and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) that will engage scholars in sustained collaboration with high performance computing specialists in order to identify, create, and adapt computational tools and methods. The Humanities High Performance Computing Collaboratory will serve as a portal for humanities scholars to receive technical support, access to high performance computing, and products and services associated with the digital technologies. Participants will consult with each computing staff about digital technology, discuss these technologies via a virtual community, and develop long-term technological goals for their projects via nine mini-residencies and a two-day conference.

Grant: 192438 / HT-50013-08,   Category: Humanities,   Division: Digital Humanities,   Year Awarded: 2008

Broadening the Digital Humanities: The Vectors-IML Summer Institute on Multimodal Scholarship

Recipient: Willis, Holly (Los Angeles, CA 90089-7727 USA) in affiliation with University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA 90089-0012 USA)

Goal: A four-week summer institute to investigate scholarly research methods in the digital age, to include thematic discussion seminars and hands-on workshops in collaboration with technologists.

Description: This proposal requests funding to support a four-week summer institute for 12 participating scholars. The Institute, set to take place at the University of Southern California's Institute for Multimedia Literacy from mid-July to mid-August, 2009, will serve as an introduction to key issues in the multimodal digital humanities and as a hands-on practicum in the creation of digital scholarship. Scholars will learn both by engaging with a variety of existing projects but also through the production of their own project; these projects will at once enrich the participants??? own understanding of the digital humanities and model the field for other scholars through their publication in the electronic journal Vectors, and elsewhere online. The Institute will provide the opportunity to explore the benefits of interactive media for scholarly analysis and authorship, illustrating the possibilities of multimodal media for humanities investigation.

Grant: 192435 / HT-50010-08,   Category: Interdisciplinary,   Division: Digital Humanities,   Year Awarded: 2008

Advanced Topics in TEI Encoding

Recipient: Flanders, Julia Hammond (Providence, RI 02912 USA) in affiliation with Brown University

Goal: A series of workshops for humanities faculty and graduate students to explore advanced uses of digital text encoding as an essential method in humanities scholarship.

Description: This project offers a series of nine advanced 3-day and 4-day institutes in text encoding for scholarly humanities projects with TEI. Aimed at an audience with a working knowledge of the TEI Guidelines, these institutes provide an intensive environment for more advanced project development, including schema customization, encoding strategy, and documentation. The institutes will focus on three topics of particular interest to scholars working on digital humanities projects: the encoding of manuscripts, the representation of contextual information, and the development of large thematic research collections.

Grant: 192431 / HT-50006-08,   Category: Humanities,   Division: Digital Humanities,   Year Awarded: 2008