Elliott Participates in NEH Meeting

On Friday, 25 September, ISAW's Associate Director for Digital Programs Tom Elliott will participate in a public meeting of digital humanities project directors in Washington, D.C.  Hosted by the National Endowment for the Humanities' Office of Digital Humanities, the event brings together the leadership of many projects that have received funding in the latest round of NEH/ODH grant awards. The event will feature short presentations of each project, as well as remarks by Brett Bobley, Director of the ODH and a keynote speech by Bethany Nowviskie, Director of the Digital Library Federation. The event, which starts at 12:30, is free and open to the public, but because of space limitations, advanced registration (by September 23rd) is required via a link on the NEH events page.

Elliott will represent the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places during the event. Among the other projects slated to be presented, the following may be of particular interest to ISAW affiliates:

• Acoustic Modeling in Historical Research (John Wall, David Hill, and  Yun Jing, North Carolina State University)
• 3D Saqqara: Reconstructing Landscape and Meaning at an Ancient Egyptian Site (Elaine Sullivan; University of California, Santa Cruz)
• DH Box: A Digital Humanities Laboratory in the Cloud (Matthew Gold; Research Foundation CUNY for the Graduate Center)
• A Digital Synopsis of Mishnah and Tosefta (Hayim Lapin, University of Maryland, College Park)
• Discovery and Documentation of At-Risk Built Heritage (Seth Wachtel, University of San Francisco)
• Easing Entry and Improving Access to Computer-Assisted Text Analysis for the Humanities (Mark LeBlanc and Michael Drout, Wheaton College with Scott Kleinman, California State University, Northridge)
• Engaging the Public: Best Practices for Crowdsourcing Across the Discipline (Mary Flanagan, Andrea Wiggins, and Neil Fraistat; Dartmouth College)
• Images and Texts in Medical History: An Introduction to Methods, Tools, and Data from the Digital Humanities (E. Thomas Ewing, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
• KELLIA: Koptische/Coptic Electronic Language and Literature International Alliance (Caroline Schroeder, University of the Pacific)
• LangBank: Digital Infrastructure to Support the Study of Classical Latin and Historical German (Brian MacWhinney, Carnegie Mellon University)
• Modeling Semantically Enriched Digital Edition of Accounts (MEDEA), (Kathryn Tomasek, Wheaton College)
• Onondaga Lake: Finding a Restorative Center in Digital Space (Susan May,  Jane Read, and Philip Arnold; Syracuse University)
• Reading the First Books: Multilingual, Early-Modern OCR for Primeros Libros (Sergio Romero, University of Texas, Austin, and Laura Mandell, Texas A&M University)

During a morning session involving just the project directors and NEH staff, Elliott will also participate as an invited speaker on a panel addressing the topic, "Getting the Word Out: Tips, Ideas, and Approaches for Project Outreach."