{"623256":{"#nid":"623256","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Preserving the History of Georgia\u0027s Rural Churches","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) received an $86,000 grant this week from the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.neh.gov\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ENational Endowment for the Humanities\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(NEH) to support\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe Digital Drawer: A Crowd-Sourced, Curated, Digital Archive Preserving History and Memory\u003C\/em\u003E. The Digital Drawer project will pilot a platform and method of gathering, curating and disseminating crowd-sourced community memory, initially, the history of Georgia\u0026rsquo;s rural churches contained in endangered records in private collections dispersed across the state.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe 18-month grant from the NEH\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.neh.gov\/grants\/odh\/digital-humanities-advancement-grants\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDigital Humanities Advancement Grants program\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;will fund the design and development of a pilot version of the Digital Drawer platform to gather, curate and disseminate \u0026ldquo;crowd-sourced\u0026rdquo; community memory. The goal of the Digital Drawer is to create a methodology and mechanism for collecting and distributing digital collections of rural church histories that will become an international, open-source platform to be used by humanities scholars and the general public to access collections of these historical and often lost voices in our past.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThis digital humanities project is unique in that it will be designed to accommodate the usability needs of an anticipated older demographic with disabilities. The platform will be a cloud-hosted media and metadata repository with data sharing service available to the public through their public libraries or partner websites. The archive will be free and accessible for all.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe Digital Drawer will be developed by a collaboration of IPaT\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/imtc.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EInteractive Media Technology Center (IMTC)\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/digitalscholarship.emory.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EEmory University\u0026rsquo;s Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS)\u003C\/a\u003E, in partnership with\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hrcga.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EHistoric Rural Churches of Georgia (HRCGA)\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.georgiahumanities.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Humanities\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.georgialibraries.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Public Library Service\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.libs.uga.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDigital Archives of the University of Georgia\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nProject director, Scott Robertson (Institute for People and Technology, Georgia Tech) will direct the Digital Drawer project with co-project director, Jesse Karlsberg (Emory Center for Digital Scholarship, Emory University).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIPaT receives a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop a digital humanities collection platform.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"IPaT receives a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop a digital humanities collection platform."}],"uid":"27980","created_gmt":"2019-07-11 20:10:54","changed_gmt":"2019-07-11 20:12:07","author":"Alyson Key","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-08-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-08-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"623218":{"id":"623218","type":"image","title":"Powelton Church","body":null,"created":"1562870438","gmt_created":"2019-07-11 18:40:38","changed":"1562875877","gmt_changed":"2019-07-11 20:11:17","alt":"Powelton Church","file":{"fid":"237330","name":"Powelton Methodist exterior.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Powelton%20Methodist%20exterior.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Powelton%20Methodist%20exterior.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":480693,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Powelton%20Methodist%20exterior.jpg?itok=bLsIsfpz"}}},"media_ids":["623218"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"181703","name":"HTF"},{"id":"179311","name":"platforms"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["alyson.powell@ipat.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}