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Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities |Seed Grants
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Seed Grants
The deadline for the 2012 Seed Grant competition is February 8, 2012.
See Full Guidelines and Application Form for more details.
The IDRH Digital Humanities Seed Grants are intended to encourage KU faculty and academic staff to plan or pilot a
collaborative project using digital technologies, which should in turn result in a more competitive subsequent external
funding application. The digital humanities use “digital media and technology to advance the full range of thought and
practice in the humanities, from the creation of scholarly resources, to research on those resources, to the
communication of results to colleagues and students” (Cohen 2011).
Description: Projects should be for the initial stages of digital research in the humanities, and include a commitment to
apply within a year for external funding. Seed grants may be used to create pilot projects, develop ideas via a
workshop, attend workshops, support project-related travel, hold a substantial planning or brainstorming session, or
similar activities. Projects can include, but are not limited to:
text analysis and data-mining techniques
data visualization techniques
applying of Geographic Information Systems to humanities research
examining the emerging multimedia and multimodal technologies in the humanities
collaborative work via Internet sites and tools (e.g. commons-based peer production)
development of new digital tools for analyzing and making available digital resources
new digital models of publication and dissemination of scholarship
digital technology for research and teaching
Outcomes: IDRH Seed Grants should result in pilot projects, plans, or prototypes that will be used to pursue
subsequent external funding. Successful applicants may be asked to present their project as part of the Hall Center for
the Humanities Faculty Seminar in Digital Humanities.
Eligibility: KU full-time humanities and social science faculty.
Anticipated funding levels: Up to $15,000.
Please refer to the 2011 Seed Grant Proposal Guidelines (PDF) for more information.
(Guidelines subject to change for future grant rounds.)
Funded Projects
2011
Project Title: Digital Resources for Second Language Acquisition Research: an Annotated Longitudinal Corpus of
Learner German
Description: This project aims to annotate, analyze, and make publicly available a digital longitudinal corpus of writing
samples collected from American learners of German at dense time intervals over several semesters. This project will
advance the digital humanistic scholarship by applying a new annotation schema developed specifically for learner
language, evaluating the output of this annotation, and publishing the corpus and studies afforded by this annotation.
This international project will combine the PI’s language acquisition expertise and the collaborator’s computational
linguistics expertise.
P.I.: Nina Vyatkina, Assistant Professor, Germanic Languages and Literatures
Award: $15,000
Awarded May 2011
Contact
Arienne Dwyer
Co-director,
Institute for Digital Research in
the Humanities
Associate Professor,
Anthropology
785-864-2649
email: anthlinguist AT ku DOT
edu
Brian Rosenblum
Co-director,
Institute for Digital Research in
the Humanities
Associate Librarian,
KU Libraries
785-864-8883
brianlee@ku.edu
Past IDRH Events
THATCamp Kansas
(September 2011)
Digital Jumpstart
Workshops
(March 2011)
New Scholarly Texts, New
Scholarly Practices: A
Discussion with Kathleen
Fitzpatrick
(February 2011)
Related Links
KU Libraries Center for
Digital Scholarship
IDRH Partners
KU Libraries
Hall Center for the
Humanities
College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences
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