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name: Nabli Hassein
name: Nabil Hassein
titles: Doctoral Student in Media, Culture and Communication
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- slug: technology-studies
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pis:
- kulpa
order: '071'
- pid: kalinago
done: true
title: Kalinago Living Language Project
subtitle: Digitizing Lexical Resources for Indigenous Survivance
category: DH Seed Grant Recipient
tags:
- indigenous-studies
- multilingual-dh
cohort_year: '2024'
abstract: Kalinago Living Language is a digitization and translation project that
endeavors to reformat and improve access to Indigenous Kalinago language resources
by producing a lexical repository and user-friendly dictionary website. The pilot
seeks to first compile a dataset from a corpus of printed evangelization materials
created by Raymond Breton, a French missionary in the seventeenth-century Caribbean.
We will lift entries from an OCRenabled PDF of a critical edition of Breton’s
Kalinago-French dictionary. Using Transkribus, an AI text recognition and transcription
tool trained on historical manuscripts, we will also transcribe text from a French-
Kalinago dictionary, a grammar, and a catechism, available in digitized rare books
formats. The goal is to comprehensively translate, using collaborative and machine
translation, French text into English to generate a direct Kalinago-to-English
vocabulary dataset. Once this dataset is complete, we will build a user interface
structured as a searchable and browsable dictionary. The landing page of this
online dictionary will offer a historical and linguistic framing of the project.
We anticipate that this resource will not only be of interest to linguists, historians,
and anthropologists in the anglophone academy, but also to English-speaking descendent
communities living in the eastern Caribbean.
pis:
- bradley
order: '072'
- pid: hidden-legacies
done: true
title: Colonial Networks
subtitle: Remapping the “Paris” Art World in a 1786 Map of Haiti
category: DH Seed Grant Recipient
tags:
- spatial-humanities
- public-humanities
cohort_year: '2024'
abstract: |-
The proposed Hidden Legacies project will create a digital repository of archival records that will document the foundational role that slavery played in fueling the growth of contemporary institutions in the United States.
This digital archive will allow users to access primary source records that document the connections between slavery and contemporary institutions, starting with three sectors, universities, religious institutions and
financial institutions. It will include mapping to allow users to visualize and locate these institutions geographically. This digital humanities project will fill an important gap. Over the past decade, the ties between
slavery and contemporary institutions have attracted growing interest from historians, journalists, policy makers and community members. Yet identifying, locating and accessing the archival records necessary to do
this research remains challenging, limiting the scope and breadth of scholarly and community research projects. Archival records are scattered across the country, in libraries, historical societies and university and
corporate archives. This project will bring many of those records together in one place, allowing scholars, students and researchers to build on this growing body of research, which is critical to providing a deeper
understanding of the systemic role that slavery played in building many of the institutions around us today.
pis:
- martin-meredith
order: '073'
- pid: colonial-networks
done: true
title: Hidden Legacies
subtitle: Slavery, Race and the Making of 21st-Century America
category: DH Seed Grant Recipient
tags:
- public-humanities
cohort_year: '2024'
abstract: This project focuses on a 1786 property map of the French colony of Saint-Domingue
(Haiti) dedicated to the comte de Vaudreuil, a prominent Paris-based art collector
whose father had governed the colony. This map records the parceling of land around
Cap Français, where many of the island's most lucrative sugar plantations were
located. It is inscribed with surnames, each belonging to a plantation owner.
Strikingly, they include some of the highest-profile members of the Paris art
world at the time. While these names may be visible on the surface, the deeper
histories of the connections they reveal remain unexplored. We propose to create
an interactive, digitally enhanced version of this map with an ambitious interface
comprising text, image, and linked data that allows users to discover stories
and pursue further research. Our project will “remap” the Paris art world in two
key ways. Although the 1786 map illustrates crucial if unknown links between colonial
networks and art in metropolitan France, it also shows the contribution of unnamed
individuals—notably enslaved laborers—whose lives were inextricably linked to
the buying and selling of art. We aim to visualize this network of people, objects,
and places and publish an open data set and metadata standard that encourages
other scholars to build on our research while interrogating mapping as a process.
In so doing, we hope to profoundly shift views of the eighteenth-century art world.
pis:
- swarns
order: '074'
- pid: library-journal
done: true
title: Bridging Degrees and Critical Perspectives
subtitle: Creating an Open Source Peer-Reviewed Journal for Interdisciplinary Library
Science Graduate Students
category: DH Seed Grant Recipient
tags:
- interdisciplinary-studies
cohort_year: '2024'
abstract: |-
With interdisciplinary humanistic inquiry at the heart of paired library and information science and subject
studies, MLIS and MA dual degree programs are uniquely positioned to positively impact critical scholarship
and discourse at the intersections of cultural production and information exchange. And as publication is
fundamental to the research lifecycle, creating a space for dialogic engagement is key. This project aims to
solicit, collect, and publish the works of MLIS-MA dual degree graduate students using the NYU Manifold
platform by building an infrastructure for a sustainable peer-review editing process and a design that allows for
multi-modal format submissions. Based on the Division of Libraries’ Dual Degree Mentorship Program, which
provides mentorship, publishing and career-building opportunities for students pursuing the MSLIS at Long
Island University's Palmer School of Library and Information Science and subject master degrees across
interdisciplinary programs at NYU, this journal will be a first for NYU Manifold, allowing for the initiation of likeminded
open-access projects by scholars and content creators across NYU communities. This project creates a
model for the journal structure within Manifold while simultaneously providing a site for scholarly conversation
that bridges the information landscape and the humanities.
pis:
- pickens
order: '075'
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pid: colonial-networks
done: true
title: Hidden Legacies
subtitle: Slavery, Race and the Making of 21st-Century America
category: DH Seed Grant Recipient
tags:
- public-humanities
cohort_year: '2024'
abstract: This project focuses on a 1786 property map of the French colony of Saint-Domingue
(Haiti) dedicated to the comte de Vaudreuil, a prominent Paris-based art collector
whose father had governed the colony. This map records the parceling of land around
Cap Français, where many of the island's most lucrative sugar plantations were located.
It is inscribed with surnames, each belonging to a plantation owner. Strikingly,
they include some of the highest-profile members of the Paris art world at the time.
While these names may be visible on the surface, the deeper histories of the connections
they reveal remain unexplored. We propose to create an interactive, digitally enhanced
version of this map with an ambitious interface comprising text, image, and linked
data that allows users to discover stories and pursue further research. Our project
will “remap” the Paris art world in two key ways. Although the 1786 map illustrates
crucial if unknown links between colonial networks and art in metropolitan France,
it also shows the contribution of unnamed individuals—notably enslaved laborers—whose
lives were inextricably linked to the buying and selling of art. We aim to visualize
this network of people, objects, and places and publish an open data set and metadata
standard that encourages other scholars to build on our research while interrogating
mapping as a process. In so doing, we hope to profoundly shift views of the eighteenth-century
art world.
pis:
- swarns
order: '074'
layout: project
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pid: hidden-legacies
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title: Colonial Networks
subtitle: Remapping the “Paris” Art World in a 1786 Map of Haiti
category: DH Seed Grant Recipient
tags:
- spatial-humanities
- public-humanities
cohort_year: '2024'
abstract: |-
The proposed Hidden Legacies project will create a digital repository of archival records that will document the foundational role that slavery played in fueling the growth of contemporary institutions in the United States.
This digital archive will allow users to access primary source records that document the connections between slavery and contemporary institutions, starting with three sectors, universities, religious institutions and
financial institutions. It will include mapping to allow users to visualize and locate these institutions geographically. This digital humanities project will fill an important gap. Over the past decade, the ties between
slavery and contemporary institutions have attracted growing interest from historians, journalists, policy makers and community members. Yet identifying, locating and accessing the archival records necessary to do
this research remains challenging, limiting the scope and breadth of scholarly and community research projects. Archival records are scattered across the country, in libraries, historical societies and university and
corporate archives. This project will bring many of those records together in one place, allowing scholars, students and researchers to build on this growing body of research, which is critical to providing a deeper
understanding of the systemic role that slavery played in building many of the institutions around us today.
pis:
- martin-meredith
order: '073'
layout: project
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pid: kalinago
done: true
title: Kalinago Living Language Project
subtitle: Digitizing Lexical Resources for Indigenous Survivance
category: DH Seed Grant Recipient
tags:
- indigenous-studies
- multilingual-dh
cohort_year: '2024'
abstract: Kalinago Living Language is a digitization and translation project that
endeavors to reformat and improve access to Indigenous Kalinago language resources
by producing a lexical repository and user-friendly dictionary website. The pilot
seeks to first compile a dataset from a corpus of printed evangelization materials
created by Raymond Breton, a French missionary in the seventeenth-century Caribbean.
We will lift entries from an OCRenabled PDF of a critical edition of Breton’s Kalinago-French
dictionary. Using Transkribus, an AI text recognition and transcription tool trained
on historical manuscripts, we will also transcribe text from a French- Kalinago
dictionary, a grammar, and a catechism, available in digitized rare books formats.
The goal is to comprehensively translate, using collaborative and machine translation,
French text into English to generate a direct Kalinago-to-English vocabulary dataset.
Once this dataset is complete, we will build a user interface structured as a searchable
and browsable dictionary. The landing page of this online dictionary will offer
a historical and linguistic framing of the project. We anticipate that this resource
will not only be of interest to linguists, historians, and anthropologists in the
anglophone academy, but also to English-speaking descendent communities living in
the eastern Caribbean.
pis:
- bradley
order: '072'
layout: project
---
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pid: library-journal
done: true
title: Bridging Degrees and Critical Perspectives
subtitle: Creating an Open Source Peer-Reviewed Journal for Interdisciplinary Library
Science Graduate Students
category: DH Seed Grant Recipient
tags:
- interdisciplinary-studies
cohort_year: '2024'
abstract: |-
With interdisciplinary humanistic inquiry at the heart of paired library and information science and subject
studies, MLIS and MA dual degree programs are uniquely positioned to positively impact critical scholarship
and discourse at the intersections of cultural production and information exchange. And as publication is
fundamental to the research lifecycle, creating a space for dialogic engagement is key. This project aims to
solicit, collect, and publish the works of MLIS-MA dual degree graduate students using the NYU Manifold
platform by building an infrastructure for a sustainable peer-review editing process and a design that allows for
multi-modal format submissions. Based on the Division of Libraries’ Dual Degree Mentorship Program, which
provides mentorship, publishing and career-building opportunities for students pursuing the MSLIS at Long
Island University's Palmer School of Library and Information Science and subject master degrees across
interdisciplinary programs at NYU, this journal will be a first for NYU Manifold, allowing for the initiation of likeminded
open-access projects by scholars and content creators across NYU communities. This project creates a
model for the journal structure within Manifold while simultaneously providing a site for scholarly conversation
that bridges the information landscape and the humanities.
pis:
- pickens
order: '075'
layout: project
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