Lyrasis Catalyst Fund Grant June 30, 2018October 25, 2018 jshanahan Leave a comment We are very happy to announce that Lyrasis will support the “Reading Chicago Reading” project through mid-2019! We will use the funding to develop a novel visualization dashboard for our data. Such an interactive dashboard should be of interest and use to other libraries, public and academic. The DePaul Library wrote a nice description of the award. The Lyrasis announcement is here.… Read more
Advanced Computing Support Grant August 17, 2017August 17, 2017 rburke Leave a comment The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) announced this week that the Reading Chicago Reading project was awarded one of their Advanced Computing Support grants this year. See the press release here. The award will enable us to get assistance from the support staff at the HTRC for expanding our computational analysis of the texts used in “One Book, One Chicago” and also other related and recommended books identified by library staff. The use of the HathiTrust digital library is essential to this phase of our research because it is more or less the only means of performing text processing… Read more
Azure for Research Award May 10, 2016October 10, 2016 rburke Leave a comment Today we got word that Microsoft will be supporting Reading Chicago Reading for another year with their Azure for Research program. The program supports research projects by providing free access to Azure cloud computing services. Read more about the program here. The award will ensure continuity for our data storage, analysis and social media extraction efforts for the next year. … Read more
NEH Office of Digital Humanities Level II Start-Up Grant March 23, 2016October 12, 2016 jshanahan Leave a comment “Reading Chicago Reading” would like to thank the National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities for a Level II Start-Up grant. This NEH ODH award allows our project to continue its efforts to combine humanities and computing to capture — and ultimately predict — the reading habits of a city by studying a repeating series of literary events, the “One Book One Chicago” program. We also want to thank the Chicago Public Library, DePaul University, and Microsoft for previous and ongoing grant support.… Read more