Short Introduction to services and resources available through the Office of Digital Humanities at NEH

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. Dilnavaz Mirza Sharma .IS 590 Digital Humanities .Summer 2012
Activities
Administers grant programs
Sponsors/supports digital projects
Funds DH workshops/conferences

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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
1.
3.
2.
4.

10. 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 Grant
http://www.neh.gov/news/whats-the-menu
Menu for Oceanic
Steamship Company
What's on the Menu?
New York Public Library (NYPL)

11. 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” Grant
https://securegrants.neh.gov/PublicQuery/main.aspx?f=1&gn=HJ-50048-10
Open University, University of Hertfordshire,
University of Sheffield

12. Dilnavaz Mirza Sharma . IS 590 Digital Humanities .Summer 2012
Scripto Transcription Tool
Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at
George Mason University
*Recipient of the Digital Humanities Start-up Grant
http://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

13. Dilnavaz Mirza Sharma .IS 590 Digital Humanities .Summer 2012
LinkedHumanities
Indiana University, Bloomington
*Recipient of the “NEH/DFG Bilateral Digital Humanities Program” Grant
https://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

14. 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

15. 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/

16. Dilnavaz Mirza Sharma . IS 590 Digital Humanities .Summer 2012
Thank You!