NEH and the DFG award $1.67 million to international digital humanities projects

National Endowment for the Humanities and the German Research Foundation award $1.67 million to international digital humanities projects

The project of especial interest to me are:

• Maharishi University of Management Research Institute – Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa
  Sanskrit Lexical Sources: Digital Synthesis and Revision
  Peter Scharf, Project Director
  Outright: $177,872
  To support: An international partnership between the Sanskrit Library (Maharishi University of Management) and the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon (CDSL) project (Institute of Indology and Tamil Studies, Cologne University) to establish a digital Sanskrit lexical reference work.
• Tufts University – Medford, Massachusetts
  The Hellespont Project: Integrating Arachne and Perseus
  Gregory Crane, Project Director
  Outright: $174,828
  To support: An international collaboration between Tufts University and the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) to join together the digital holdings of Tufts’ Perseus Digital Library and the DAI’s Arachne into the largest collection of Greco-Roman materials online.
• Princeton University – Princeton, New Jersey
  The Yemen Manuscript Digitization Initiative
  David Magier, Project Director
  Outright: $209,056
  To support: An international collaboration between Princeton University and the Freie University, Berlin, to preserve three private libraries and create an online resource for their dissemination; the project team will digitize 236 Arabic manuscripts in the fields of Islamic theology and law.