Funding

From Inpho Wiki

National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Initiative

On March 9th, 2009, NEH awarded $400,000 outright. From the IU News Room:

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded $400,000 over two years to the Indiana Philosophy Ontology project -- InPhO for short -- which is creating interactive, digital tools to help students and scholars explore the discipline of philosophy. Colin Allen

Colin Allen, professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science in the College of Arts and Sciences, is project director for InPhO, a unique project that uses computer data-mining and human experts to search, map and classify information.

Allen said the NEH grant will enable the Indiana Philosophy Ontology project to expand its work and to develop more attractive and effective ways of presenting data and letting users interact with the system. Funding is from the NEH Office of Digital Humanities and Division of Preservation and Access.

On July 1st, 2007, the InPhO project received a Level II grant from the NEH as a Digital Humanities Start Up initiative. The following is more information on the grant itself (from NEH.gov).

The Office of Digital Humanities (ODH) is an office within the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Our primary mission is to help coordinate the NEH's efforts in the area of digital scholarship. As in the sciences, digital technology has changed the way scholars perform their work. It allows new questions to be raised and has radically changed the ways in which materials can be searched, mined, displayed, taught, and analyzed. Technology has also had an enormous impact on how scholarly materials are preserved and accessed, which brings with it many challenging issues related to sustainability, copyright, and authenticity. The ODH works not only with NEH staff and members of the scholarly community, but also facilitates conversations with other funding bodies both in the United States and abroad so that we can work towards meeting these challenges.

In an effort to foster new collaborations and advance the role of cultural repositories in online teaching, learning, and research, this program is co-sponsored by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). NEH and IMLS encourage library and museum officials as well as scholars, scientists, educational institutions, and other non-profit organizations to apply for these grants and to collaborate when appropriate. Proposals should be for the planning or initial stages of digital initiatives in any area of the humanities. Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants may involve:

• research that brings new approaches or documents best practices in the study of the digital humanities;
• planning and prototyping new digital tools for preserving, analyzing, and making accessible digital resources, including libraries’ and museums’ digital assets;
• scholarship that examines the philosophical implications and impact of the use of emerging technologies;
• innovative uses of technology for public programming and education utilizing both traditional and new media; and
• new digital modes of publication facilitating the dissemination of humanities scholarship in advanced academic as well as informal or formal educational settings at all academic levels.

IU New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities Program

For 2005-2006, the InPhO project received the New Frontiers in Arts and Humanities grant from Indiana University.