CDS works closely with faculty and with other centers at Brown to plan and develop grant-funded initiatives in support of faculty research, university projects, workshops and conferences, and other innovative digital work. Such proposals often arise from projects undertaken under the CDS faculty grants program, as a way of expanding a prototype or developing a project at greater scale. CDS also develops funding proposals in collaboration with digital centers and partners at other institutions for joint research and development initiatives.

CDS can help with:

• Planning and developing an external grant proposal for a project involving digital methods or tools
• Finding appropriate external collaborators on digital projects and proposals
• Identifying appropriate digital tools and assisting project participants in mastering their use
• Training and consultation on digital methods, including text encoding, metadata, information design, data gathering, data curation, and digital collaboration
• Designing and organizing workshops on digital tools and methods; for more information about existing CDS programs in this area, see our outreach page

To discuss a project or find out more, contact the CDS. For assistance with grant proposals, please contact us at least six weeks in advance of the submission deadline.

Recent Grant-funded Projects

Semantically Rich Tools for Text Exploration

January 2010-June 2011
$50,000

The Center for Digital Scholarship was awarded a grant from the NEH to create a suite of software tools for exploring TEI-encoded texts using the SEASR software framework. SEASR lets scholars perform in-depth analyses of texts by building analytical “flows” out of a series of building blocks, called “components.” CDS will create and share a set of flows and components specifically designed to work with semantically rich TEI collections. SEASR is being developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Advanced Seminars in Scholarly Text Encoding

July 2009-June 2011
$196,000

The Women Writers Project received a grant from the NEH to conduct a series of six advanced workshops on special topics in scholarly text encoding. For more information, please see the seminar schedule.

Representing Names

July 2008-December 2009
$50,000

Under this grant the WWP is exploring the representation of persons and personal names in the WWP textbase. We have gathered information on over 5000 individuals (including authors, publishers, subscribers, and others named in the texts) and are developing a set of tools to permit readers to use this information as part of the interface to Women Writers Online. As part of this effort we are also addressing a number of conceptual challenges in the representation of fictional and literary naming.

Seminars in Humanities Text Encoding with TEI

January 2007-June 2009
$250,000

The Women Writers Project received a grant from the NEH to conduct a two-year series of introductory workshops on scholarly text encoding. Information and materials from these events are available at the seminars site.