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Papers of the War Department 1784-1800
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.
Papers of the War Department 1784-1800
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.
Crowdsourcing Documentary Transcription: an Open Source Tool
Proposal to create an open source transcription tool to enable researchers to access handwritten historical documents.
To be used with Papers of the War Department, 1784-1800 and a few other test sites.
(Budget Justification documents have been redacted)
To be used with Papers of the War Department, 1784-1800 and a few other test sites.
(Budget Justification documents have been redacted)
Crowdsourcing Documentary Transcription: an Open Source Tool
Proposal to create an open source transcription tool to enable researchers to access handwritten historical documents. To be used with Papers of the War Department, 1784-1800 and a few other test sites.
(Budget Justification documents have been redacted)
(Budget Justification documents have been redacted)
Papers of the War Department 1784-1800
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.
Hurricane Digital Memory Bank
A pilot version of the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, to collect and preserve digital evidence of the devastating Gulf Coast hurricanes of 2005—Katrina, Rita, and Wilma.
The PressForward Initiative: Creating New Modes and New Platforms for Scholarship Beyond Traditional Forms
Grant document proposes the PressForward Initiative (PFI) to explore the best means for aggregating, curating, and crediting scholarship that is currently decentralized across the web or does not fit into traditional genres such as the journal article or the monograph. PFI will pioneer new methods for capturing and highlighting a vast expanse of presently orphaned or underappreciated scholarship in ways that are useful to scholarly communities and which will, as a byproduct, promote open access…