NEH announces Chronicling America Data Challenge | National Endowment for the Humanities

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-11-04

Summary:

"The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today launched a nationwide contest, challenging members of the public to produce creative web-based projects using data pulled from Chronicling America, the digital repository of historic U.S. newspapers. The Chronicling America database, created through a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress, provides free digital access to ten million pages of historically significant newspapers published in the United States between 1836 and 1922. In a competition posted at Challenge.gov, NEH encourages contestants to develop data visualizations, web-based tools, or other innovative web-based projects using the open data found at Chronicling America ..."

Link:

http://www.neh.gov/news/press-release/2015-10-28

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) ยป abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.neh oa.usa oa.crowd oa.lay oa.data oa.awards oa.databases oa.loc oa.newspapers oa.announcements

Date tagged:

11/04/2015, 07:25

Date published:

11/04/2015, 02:25