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This project gathers information about how digital resources are being currently used, seeks to make them easier to use in more sophisticated ways, and exemplifies some promising approaches to text mining and analysis.

ScholarPress is a suite of tools that will enable humanities scholars far more control of how they teach and present their research. We will develop three tools: Courseware, Researcher, and Vitaware. Courseware will allow instructors to easily publish course websites that incorporate digital resources and encourage critical analysis that is central to the humanities. Researcher will help humanities scholars collaborate by making it easy to aggregate and cite resources from various online…

Probing the Past provides a searchable version of information contained in the transcriptions of all 325 probate inventories. Users may browse by time period or city/county, or search the database to find records that meet specific criteria, and then view the original written text and a transcript of the inventories.

The National Postal Museum (NPM) desires to launch an online Postal Memory Book on its museum website in order to document and preserve stories detailing the history and work of former and current postal employees, the heart of the postal system. This online Postal Memory Book will add rich and valuable content to the museum’s collection of historical information relating to the history and development of the post in America.

Peopling the American Past is a Teaching American History project designed in partnership with the Clarke, Culpeper, Fauquier, Frederick, Manassas City, Orange, and Winchester Public Schools and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University to increase teachers' and students' knowledge of traditional American history and ability to analyze primary sources and think historically. Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, TAH grants developed, documented,…

Grant proposal for additional funds in support of the Papers of the War Department, 1874-1800 project. Indicates that in 2007, the project shifted emphasis toward the immediate availability of content online (reducing the amount of available finding data). Grant application requests additional funds to utilize existing infrastructure and complete the more extensive data entry processes begun prior to the shift.

Continues work on the Papers of the War Department 1784-1800 project. Grant proposal requests 3 additional years of funding to further the migration of files and data to the CHNM campus and completion of the electronic architecture.

Grant proposes to continue the work started at by Theodore Crackel and his team at East Stroudsburg State University in 1994. The purpose and goal is to make available some 50,000 War Department documents that have been recovered through a multi-year search of hundreds of repositories and to make this archive accessible online and free.

The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University has come to the conclusion that effective digital tools for scholars are forged mostly in practice rather than theory. There is no reason that a weeklong institute can't both teach and produce something useful to the community—an actual digital humanities tool—while also laying the foundation and skills for future endeavors by the participants. Indeed, the act of doing, of building the tool, should be the best way for participants…

A white paper investigating mobile technology usage in gallery spaces and makes recommendations for art museums on how best to use these new applications to engage visitors with visual art objects