History of Grants
During its history the WWP has received a number of grants from federal agencies and private foundations. Below is a list of these grants and their aims, and (where available) links to grant reports.
The National Endowment for the Humanities
2012–2014: This three-year grant supported a series of advanced institutes on topics in scholarly text encoding.
Funding received: $250,000
2011–2014: This grant, co-sponsored by the DFG, supported an international workshop on data modeling in digital humanities. Records of the event are available at the symposium summary page and transcription site.
Funding received: $38,000
2011–2014: This three-year grant supports a collaborative research project on the reception history of women’s writing.
Funding received: $200,000
2009-2011: This two-year grant supported a set of six seminars on advanced topics in scholarly text encoding. A final report is available.
Funding received: $196,000
2008–2009: This one and a half-year grant supported a pilot project to explore the encoding of personal names and personal information
on a subset of the WWO collection. A final report and white paper are available.
Funding received: $49,992
2007–2009: This two and a half-year grant supported a two-year series of eleven seminars in scholarly text encoding. A final report is available.
Funding received: $250,005
2003–2006: This three-year grant supported the publication of an encoding guide for scholarly text encoding using the TEI Guidelines, based on the WWP’s encoding documentation. A final report is available.
Funding received: $206,375
1999–2000: This brief extension to the previous grant provided bridge funding for the period before the publication of Women Writers
Online.
Funding received: $33,037
1997–1999: This grant supported extensive additions to the textbase, including a wide range of 18th-century materials. In 1999, the
textbase was published electronically as Women Writers Online. A final report is available.
Funding received: $190,000 outright and $50,000 in matching funds
1995–1997: This grant period saw resumed transcription, with emphasis on Renaissance texts, and also the beginnings of our research
into electronic publication. We also developed comprehensive documentation systems to track workflow and document methodology
more systematically.
Funding received: $190,000 outright and $50,000 in matching funds
1993–1995: During the period covered by this grant, we began extensive research on the newly published TEI Guidelines to determine how
to apply this encoding system to early women’s writing. Very few texts were transcribed during this period.
Funding received: $148,713 outright and $35,000 in matching funds
1991–1993: Further transcription, and initial research on TEI/SGML encoding; this grant also enabled us to experiment with various forms
of output, including traditional printed books.
Funding received: $100,000
1988–1991: Our first grant from NEH, which funded the initial research and development of the collection; during this grant period we
performed the initial transcription of substantial numbers of texts, and created several anthologies for classroom use.
Funding received: $100,000 outright and $100,000 in matching funds
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
1997–1999: This three-year grant funded the development of Renaissance Women Online, a subset of Women Writers Online which includes 100 Renaissance texts, together with biographical and contextual materials.
The goal of the grant was to study and compare the use of digital and print materials in research and teaching, and in addition
to the online collection it also funded a survey of faculty attitudes, beliefs, and practices with digital tools. An interim report and final report are available.
Funding received: $400,000
The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
2003–2004: This one-year grant funded the initial phase of work on the publication of the WWP’s encoding documentation.
Funding received: $25,000
