Prof. Tomasek wins NEH Start-Up Grant
Posted on April 15, 2011
On April 1, Prof. Kathryn Tomasek learned that the Office of Digital Humanities at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded her a Level I Start-Up Grant for her project using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) to mark up 19th century financial records. With digitized markup, historians can use these documents to study economic and social history in innovative ways. The grant will enable Prof. Tomasek to host a conference at Wheaton, bringing experts together to develop standards for markup of transcribed text and metadata that will facilitate searching across collections that are currently inaccessible to historians.
