July 28, 2010 – Google announced this month the first recipients of its Digital Humanities Research Awards. These awards, totaling $479,000, will support twelve projects led by twenty-three researchers at fifteen universities. The unrestricted grants are for one year, with the possibility of renewal for a second year. According to the Official Google Blog, researchers will receive, “some access to Google tools, technologies, and expertise.” Google states that it has committed nearly a million dollars to digital humanities research for the next two years.
2010 Google Digital Humanities Research Award Recipients
- Steven Abney and Terry Szymanski, University of Michigan. Automatic Identification and Extraction of Structured Linguistic Passages in Texts.
- Elton Barker, The Open University, Eric C. Kansa, University of California-Berkeley, Leif Isaksen, University of Southampton, United Kingdom. Google Ancient Places (GAP): Discovering historic geographical entities in the Google Books corpus.
- Dan Cohen and Fred Gibbs, George Mason University. Reframing the Victorians.
- Gregory R. Crane, Tufts University. Classics in Google Books.
- Miles Efron, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois. Meeting the Challenge of Language Change in Text Retrieval with Machine Translation Techniques.
- Brian Geiger, University of California-Riverside, Benjamin Pauley, Eastern Connecticut State University. Early Modern Books Metadata in Google Books.
- David Mimno and David Blei, Princeton University. The Open Encyclopedia of Classical Sites.
- Alfonso Moreno, Magdalen College, University of Oxford. Bibliotheca Academica Translationum: link to Google Books.
- Todd Presner, David Shepard, Chris Johanson, James Lee, University of California-Los Angeles. Hypercities Geo-Scribe.
- Amelia del Rosario Sanz-Cabrerizo and José Luis Sierra-Rodríguez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Collaborative Annotation of Digitalized Literary Texts.
- Andrew Stauffer, University of Virginia. JUXTA Collation Tool for the Web.
- Timothy R. Tangherlini, University of California-Los Angeles, Peter Leonard, University of Washington. Northern Insights: Tools & Techniques for Automated Literary Analysis, Based on the Scandinavian Corpus in Google Books.
Additional information is posted on the Official Google Blog.
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