Ever wondered what kind of projects are being funded by NEH?

At the 2018 Annual Project Directors Meeting, directors took to the floor to present a 3-minute overview on their projects. The lightning rounds are now available on Youtube and there were more than 40 projects.

Level 1 projects include:

  • Caribbean Diaspora: Panorama of Carnival Practices (9:33)
  • The Development of Digital Documentary Editing Platforms (14:32)
  • V-ESPACE: Virtual Early Modern Spectacles and Publics, Active and Collaborative Environment (3:26)
  • Go Local: Building Capacity for Public History in York County, Maine (16:18)

 

Level 2 projects include:

  • Digital Floor Plan Database: A New Method for Analyzing Architecture (22:03)
  • Supporting Cultural Heritage Research in Historic Photography Archives with Machine Learning and Computer Vision (25:23)
  • Named Entity Recognition For The Classical Languages For The Building Of A Catalog Of Ancient Peoples (57:21)
  • Mapping the Historic West End: The Digital History of African American Neighborhoods in Charlotte, North Carolina (45:28)

 

Level 3 projects include:

  • Text in Situ: Reasoning about Visual Information in the Computational Analysis of Books (1:35:36)
  • Freedom on the Move: Advancing a Crowdsourced, Comprehensive Database of North American Runaway Slave Advertisements (1:39:07)
  • Exposing the Borders of Academia: Sign Language as a Medium of Knowledge Production, Preservation, and Dissemination (1:46:03)