Center of Digital Humanities Research, 2018-2023

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Laura Mandell was hired at Texas A&M University June 1, 2011 in order to spearhead the Initiative for Digital Humanities Research. Under the leadership of Mandell and Daniel L. SchwartzFind out more, Associate Director, 2015-2023, the Initiative became the Center of Digital Humanities Research in April, 2018Find out more.

Achievements during the 2015-2023 Administration (download in pdf form)

Grant Activity

Grants Received
  1. Syriaca.org, NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant, Level III, “Linking Texts and Data from the Medieval Middle East: Next-Generation Discovery and Access Tools for Syriac Cultural Heritage,” PI: Daniel L. Schwartz, 36 month project, $350,000, 2023-2026
  2. The Carlyle Letters Online, from Duke University Press/NEH, $64,010, 2022
  3. Hagler Institute for Advanced Study Fellow at CoDHR, Dr. Lena Cowen Orlin, including a graduate student HIAS Fellow beginning 2020-2021
  4. Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship (lincsproject.ca), Canadian Foundation for Innovation, $150,000, 2021
  5. Digital Publication of The New Variorum Shakespeare, Modern Language Association, $115,660, 2019
  6. “ARCScholar: A Digital Publishing Cooperative,” National Historical Publications and Records Commission / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, $75,000, 2018-2019
  7. “Reading First Books: Multilingual, Early Modern Optical Character Recognition for Primeros Libros,” NEH, $215,000, 2015
  8. Partner in “Text Mining the Novel: Establishing the Foundations of a New Discipline,” SSHRC Partnership Grant, $120,000 2014-2020
  9. “ARC: Research and Student Engagement in the Digital Humanities,” College of Liberal Arts Strategic Development Grant $67,858, 2013
  10. “eMOP: the Early Modern OCR Project,” Mellon Foundation, $734,000, 2012-2015
  11. Syriaca.org, multiple agencies, primarily NEH, $339,498, 2011-2017
Grants Awarded
  1. Maria Edgeworth Letters
  2. Texas Freedom Colonies Learn More
Other Sources of Income
  1. BigDIVA.org subscriptions: $58,500 to date (all IP issues secure; passed review by TAMU Commercialization Office and the VPR)
  2. Programming for Humanists Webinar (free to TAMU faculty, staff, and students):
    • 2022: $51,550.00 total
      Spring: Python: Crash Course, 79 participants (17 TAMU, 62 external), $24,950
      Fall: Digital Editions: Start to Finish, 50 participants (10 TAMU, 40 external), $26,600
    • 2021: $22,250
      Spring: Python, 51 participants (26 TAMU, 25 external)
    • 2020: $33,150.00 total
      Spring: Digital Editions: Start to Finish, 43 participants (26 TAMU, 17 external), $8,700.00
      Spring: Python, 60 participants (19 TAMU, 41 external), $15,900.00
      Summer: Gephi, 73 participants (14 TAMU, 59 external), $8,550.00
    • 2019: $19,000.00 revenue earned
      Spring: Digital Editions: Start to Finish, 41 participants (15 TAMU, 26 external)
Selected CoDHR Projects
Liz Grumbach teaching in the HVS

The Humanities Visualization Space

the Advanced Research Consortium

The Advanced Research Consortium (ar-c.org)

BigDIVA BigDIVA on the Big Screen

The Big Data Infrastructure Visualization Application (bigdiva.org)
On a large screen (video Find out more)
On an average computer screen (video Find out more)

Syriaca

Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, now hosted by Vanderbilt University (video Find out more)

Corpora

The Corpora Data Studio, created by Bryan P. Tarpley

the New Variorum Shakespeare

The New Variorum Shakespeare (newvariorumshakespeare.org; NVS)
Find out more

Early Modern OCR Project

The Early Modern OCR Project (video Find out more)

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