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The American Council of Learned Societies' National Task Force on Scholarship and the Public Humanities suggests that the nature of public humanities work is to teach the public the findings of academic scholarship: it sees "scholarship and the public humanities not as two distinct spheres but as parts of a single process, the process of taking ...
Humanities projects include Anti-Slavery Manuscripts [132] with Boston Public Library, and Shakespeare's World [133] with the Folger Shakespeare Library and Oxford English Dictionary. Ecology projects include Snapshot Serengeti, [134] Wildcam Gorongosa [135] and Penguin Watch. [136] Anyone can build their own project on the free Project Builder ...
Founded in 1981 by historians Herbert Gutman and Stephen Brier as the American-Working Class History Project, [1] the project grew out of a 1977–80 series of National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminars that introduced new social history scholarship to trade union members from diverse occupations and backgrounds, most of whom had no college experience. [2]
A book digitization project, led by Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science and University Libraries. [57] Working with government and research partners in India ( Digital Library of India ) and China , the project is scanning books in many languages, using OCR to enable full text searching, and providing free-to-read access to ...
NEH is an independent grant-making agency of the United States government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities (see Public humanities). NEH facilitated the creation of State Humanities Councils [6] in the 56 U.S. states and territories. Each council operates independently, defining the ...
The initial project website, called MaCleKi, [10] launched in September 2015, and the project white paper [11] followed the close of the grant. The project continued under an NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant awarded in 2017, which resulted in the release of Curatescape for WordPress and additional content on MaCleKi. [12]
Other projects like AgeGuess [8] focus on the senior demographics and enable the elderly to upload photos of themselves so the public can guess different ages. Lists of citizen science projects may change. For example, the Old Weather project website indicates that as of January 10, 2015, 51% of the logs were completed. [9]
Oregon Humanities is an independent, nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), [1] [2] the federal agency of the U.S. government established by the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 (Pub. L. 89–209) to support research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities.