NEH/AHRC New Directions for Digital Scholarship in Cultural Institutions
The NEH/AHRC New Directions for Digital Scholarship in Cultural Institutions program was a joint initiative between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The overarching goal of the program was to advance digital scholarship in cultural institutions such as museums, libraries, galleries, and archives. This program funded teams in the US and UK working collaboratively to deliver transformational impact on digital methods and digital research in cultural institutions.
A list of awards made through the two rounds of this program is below:
Round 1
Award
Lead US Institution
Lead UK institution
Project title
American Numismatic Society
University of Oxford
OXUS-INDUS: A Linked Open Data Resource for Research in Central and South Asian Coinages
Southern University and A&M College
University of Leicester
3 by 3: Modelling New Digital Leadership in Museums
University of Illinois
City University of London
New Directions in Digital Jazz Studies: Music Information Retrieval and AI Support for Jazz Scholarship in Digital Archives
University of Texas, Austin
Lancaster University
Unlocking the Colonial Archive: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Indigenous and Spanish American Historical Collections
Hispanic Society of America
Nottingham Trent University
From Lima to Canton and Beyond: An AI-aided heritage materials research platform for studying globalisation through art
Indiana University, Bloomington
University of Cambridge
Digital approaches to the capture and analysis of watermarks using the manuscripts of Isaac Newton as a test case
University of Illinois
Loughborough University
AEOLIAN (Artificial intelligence for cultural organisations)
University of Southern California
The Alan Turing Institute
Machines Reading Maps: Finding and Understanding Text on Maps
Round 2
Award
Lead US Institution
Lead UK institution
Project title
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
University of Westminster
I don't see what you mean: Broadening participation through co-created inclusive digital museum audio
Rice University
Lancaster University
Towards a Digital Archive of the Atlantic Slave Trades: Unlocking the Records of the South Sea Company
SUNY, Farmingdale State
Brunel University London
Designing Mixed Reality Heritage Performances to Support Decolonisation of Heritage Sites
Yale University
University of Edinburgh
Enriching Exhibition Scholarship: Reconciling Knowledge Graphs and Social Media from Newspaper Articles to Twitter
University of Notre Dame
University of Oxford
Unlocking Digital Texts: Towards an interoperable text framework
Princeton University
SOAS University of London
A Digital Repatriation of a Lost archive of the Spanish Pacific: The Library of The Convent of San Pablo (Manila, 1762)
Cornell University
Birkbeck College
Towards an Integrated Colonial Archive: Humanities, Law and British Indentureship
University of Arizona
University of Kent
Indigenous Knowledges: a Digital Residency Exchange and Best Practices Pilot
University of Wyoming
Cardiff University
Finding a place: advancing digital methods to unlock the use of digitized book illustrations in cultural institutions
George Mason University
University of Edinburgh
Subaltern Histories of Global Textiles : Connecting Collections, Expanding Engagement
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
University of Cambridge
Digital Storytelling on African Urbanisms: A Model to Empower Education Initiatives Across the Global South
Bucknell University
Newcastle University
Evolving Hands: Building Workflows and Scalable Practices for Handwriting