NEHIATDHBackground

General information and background on the WWP's NEH IATDH grant

Submitted April 2008

Awarded August 5, 2008

Total award: $196K

This grant will begin in July 2009 and end in June 2011. It will cover six workshops, focusing on manuscripts and contextual materials. Each topic will be offered three times during the course of the grant. The seminars will combine case studies, discussion, and hands-on project development. Following each seminar, participants would be encouraged to develop project documentation and an encoding rationale, which will be circulated to the group for critique and feedback.

The grant funding covers 15% time from John, Syd, and Julia, with an additional 5% contributed as cost-sharing. It also covers honorarium and expenses for three guest instructors (one per event), and travel costs for WWP staff and for participants. It includes $2000 per event for food and logistics. It also covers $1500/yr for a student encoder to be used as needed.

Our institutional partners in this grant were UCSB, UNL, UMD, and UKY, who each agreed to host one or more seminars. Dot Porter and Brett Barney agreed to be guest instructors; however, Dot is now working in Ireland and travel costs will make it prohibitive to include her, so we will need to find a replacement.

The original grant proposal requested $250K for a three-year series of advanced seminars in scholarly text encoding, focusing on three areas:

• manuscript encoding
• encoding of contextual materials
• encoding of thematic research collections and scholarly editions