| HAA-256158-17 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | George Mason University | Transcribing and Linking Early American Records with Scripto and Omeka S | 9/1/2017 - 8/31/2020 | $230,000.00 | Christopher | | Hamner | | | | George Mason University | Fairfax | VA | 22030-4444 | USA | 2017 | Public History | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 180000 | 50000 | 169997.92 | 50000 | An update and redesign of Scripto, which is a free, open-source tool used for collaborative online transcriptions of documents and multimedia files. This update will ensure it is compatible with Omeka S, a platform for publishing linked open data and integrating collections. In addition to this, the team will migrate the holdings in an important archive (The Papers of the War Department) to Omeka S and develop guidance to assist other cultural heritage organizations in managing their own community transcription projects.
RRCHNM seeks a Level III Digital Humanities Advancement Grant from the NEH-ODH to 1) update and redesign the Scripto transcription tool to make it compatible with the new data architecture in Omeka S; 2) migrate the substantial holdings in the Papers of the War Department collections to Omeka S; 3) and use the project as the basis for producing a number of publications and guides that will support other cultural heritage organizations in their efforts to develop community transcription projects with Scripto and Omeka S. |
| HD-50927-10 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants | George Mason University | Crowdsourcing Documentary Transcription: an Open Source Tool | 7/1/2010 - 6/30/2011 | $49,215.00 | Sharon | M. | Leon | | | | George Mason University | Fairfax | VA | 22030-4444 | USA | 2010 | Media Studies | Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants | Digital Humanities | 49215 | 0 | 49215 | 0 | The development of an open source tool that would allow scholars to contribute document transcriptions and research notes to digital archival projects, using the Papers of the War Department as a test case.
The Center for History and New Media, George Mason University seeks to build an open source tool to enable researchers to contribute document transcriptions and research notes to digital archival projects, thus harnessing the power of the community of users to improve the discoverability and usefulness of the archive. Digital archives and documentary projects need a viable solution that lowers both the cost and the investment of staff time involved with transcribing of large numbers of historical documents. There will be significant benefits for both the editorial staff and for interested users, whether they are scholarly researchers, students and teachers, or members of the general public. This grant seeks to address these long-term resource challenges facing many digital documentary editing projects. We will use the Papers of the War Department digital archive as a test case. |