discovery: national endowment for the humanities
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Dilnavaz Mirza Sharma . IS 590 Digital Humanities . Summer 2012
Office of Digital Humanities
Supporting the Application of Technology to Research and Study in the Humanities
Dilnavaz Mirza Sharma . IS 590 Digital Humanities . Summer 2012
Past
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) - 1965
Independent federal agency
Office of Digital Humanities (ODH)- March 2008
Present
Dilnavaz Mirza Sharma . IS 590 Digital Humanities . Summer 2012
New Technology
Effects: archival material searched mined displayed taught analyzed
Effects: scholarly material generated published accessed preserved credited
Dilnavaz Mirza Sharma . IS 590 Digital Humanities . Summer 2012
Purpose “Improve” humanities: practice and scholarship
education research preservation access public programming
New questions + new tools = new answers
Support research collaborations inter/trans-disciplinary international
Dilnavaz Mirza Sharma . IS 590 Digital Humanities . Summer 2012
Activities
Administers grant programs
Sponsors/supports digital projects
Funds DH workshops/conferences
Dilnavaz Mirza Sharma . IS 590 Digital Humanities . Summer 2012
Grant Initiatives Digging into Data Challenge Grant:
http://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/digging-data-challenge
Digital Humanities Start-up Grants: www.neh.gov/grants/odh/digital-humanities-start-grants.
NEH/DFG (German Research Foundation) Bilateral Digital Humanities Program:http://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/nehdfg-bilateral-digital-humanities-program
Dilnavaz Mirza Sharma . IS 590 Digital Humanities . Summer 2012
ODH’s Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, Summer 2012
Linked Ancient World Data Institute, NYU, NY
Working with text in a Digital Age, Tufts University, MA
Spatial Narratives and Deep Maps, IU & Perdue University, IN
Dilnavaz Mirza Sharma . IS 590 Digital Humanities . Summer 2012
“In the Field” Workshops and Conferences
2012 DH Conference, Jul 16 – 22
Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2012, Jun 10-14
ODH at the 2012 MLA (Modern Language Conference), Jan 5-8
Dilnavaz Mirza Sharma . IS 590 Digital Humanities . Summer 2012
ODH Sponsored Projects
Scripto Transcription Tool
LinkedHumanities
What’s on the menu?
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913
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Dilnavaz Mirza Sharma . IS 590 Digital Humanities . Summer 2012
Crowdsourcing project
Digitizing NYPL’s collection of 40,000 restaurant menus
25,000 menus from before the 1900s
No Log-in required
Dishes are cross referenced
Transcribed entries peer reviewed
From US and abroad*Recipient of the Digital Humanities Start-up Granthttp://www.neh.gov/news/whats-the-menu
Menu for Oceanic Steamship Company
What's on the Menu?New York Public Library (NYPL)
Dilnavaz Mirza Sharma . IS 590 Digital Humanities . Summer 2012
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey 1674-1913
Fully Searchable Database 197,000 written records of trials Historical/background Information All records are cross referenced Advanced search functions, e.g., Boolean Results can be imported into Zotero Voyant tools can be applied for analysis
*Recipient of the “Digging into Data” Granthttps://securegrants.neh.gov/PublicQuery/main.aspx?f=1&gn=HJ-50048-10
Open University, University of Hertfordshire, University of Sheffield
Dilnavaz Mirza Sharma . IS 590 Digital Humanities . Summer 2012
Scripto Transcription ToolCenter for History and New Media (CHNM) at
George Mason University
*Recipient of the Digital Humanities Start-up Granthttp://www.neh.gov/news/whats-the-menu
Online transcription tool
Users can transcribe handwritten historical document
Ongoing use in crowdsourced project: Papers of the War Department, 1784-1800
Scripto plug-ins for Omeka, Wordpress, Drupal
Dilnavaz Mirza Sharma . IS 590 Digital Humanities . Summer 2012
LinkedHumanitiesIndiana University, Bloomington
*Recipient of the “NEH/DFG Bilateral Digital Humanities Program” Granthttps://securegrants.neh.gov/publicquery/main.aspx?f=1&gn=HG-50032-11
Tools to link data between DH
collections
Goal: to build “web of facts”
Experimental use in Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Versatility and portability
essential
Dilnavaz Mirza Sharma . IS 590 Digital Humanities . Summer 2012
NEH ODH: http://www.neh.gov/divisions/odh ODH Projects: http://www.neh.gov/divisions/odh/featured-project ODH Grant News Articles: http://
www.neh.gov/divisions/odh/grant-news Found History by Tom Scheinfeldt:
http://www.foundhistory.org/2008/03/25/neh-creates-office-of-digital-humanities/
NEH’s Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants: http://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/digital-humanities-start-grants
Old Bailey Online: http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/index.jsp NYT “As the Gavels Fell: 240 Years at Old Bailey:”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/18/books/old-bailey-trials-are-tabulated-for-scholars-online.html?_r=1
NEH/DFG Bilateral Digital Humanities Program : http://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/nehdfg-bilateral-digital-humanities-program
References
Dilnavaz Mirza Sharma . IS 590 Digital Humanities . Summer 2012
References Chronicle of Higher Education: http://
chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/digging-into-data-day-2-making-tools-and-using-them/31704
Attend An ODH Funded Institute: http://www.neh.gov/divisions/odh/institutes
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: http://plato.stanford.edu/ Scripto: http://scripto.org/ What’s on the menu? http://menus.nypl.org/
Dilnavaz Mirza Sharma . IS 590 Digital Humanities . Summer 2012
Thank You!