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• Genoa Indian School Digital Reconciliation Project

  The History Department, the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH), and University Archives & Special Collections at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) propose to collaborate with the Genoa U.S. Indian School Foundation and National Archives branches in Kansas City and Denver to digitize, describe, and make accessible materials related to the Genoa U.S. Indian Industrial School, one of the largest U.S. Indian boarding schools, which was in operation from 1884 to 1934. We will process approximately 10500 pages (or 3368 items) of student case files, admittance forms, correspondence, censuses, administrative and health reports, photographs, artwork, ephemera, artifacts, and a student newspaper held by the National Archives and by the Genoa U.S. Indian School Foundation. Our project will make these hidden records accessible to the families of Indian people who attended the school, researchers who study the Indian boarding schools, and the general public.

• University of Nebraska State Museum Biodiversity Heritage Literature Digitization: Field Expedition Notebooks, Taxon Notebooks, and Other Scholarly Parasitology Literature

  The two-year project would result in the digitization of specific portions of the biodiversity heritage literature that currently exist in hard copy only in the University of Nebraska State Museum (UNSM), a Smithsonian-affiliated institution. The digitized field notebooks, taxon notebooks, U.S. government documents, and University of Nebraska Studies from the Zoological Laboratory series will be openly available for free with no registration required in the highly-ranked University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) Digital Commons institutional repository (IR). Faculty, staff, and students within the UNL University Libraries will conduct the work of digitizing and uploading the documents, and creating the associated metadata. The resulting collection of accessible literature will enable greater cross-linking with existing specimen datasets. The literature will be available to scholars, students, and the lay public to read and re-use for free in perpetuity, and will facilitate enhanced cross-linking of databases.

• Rails Across the Continent: Digitized Maps of American Railroad Expansion

  Rails Across the Continent: Digitized Maps of American Railroad Expansion will digitize and describe an estimated 600 historical railroad maps in the collections of the University of Missouri-St. Louis' John W. Barringer III National Railroad Library and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Archives & Special Collections. Digitization will be conducted by the UNL Center for Digital Research in the Humanities and the Barringer Library over a three year period. The maps selected will complement those in the Railroad Maps, 1828-1900, Collection at the Library of Congress. Goals are to make significant visual resources relating to railroad lands and routes available to scholars and the public.

• Hopewell Legacies: Unearthing Excavation Records from the Ceremonial Mounds of the Ohio Hopewell

  The Hopewell Legacies project aims to provide open access to archaeological excavation records to further scholarship on the ancient monumental earthwork constructions and large-scale ceremonial activities of the Ohio River Valley. During the first five centuries of the common era, intensified ceremonial practices among the Ohio Hopewell integrated many native societies in Eastern North America. Leveraging four strategic institutional partnerships (Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, Ohio History Connection, Hopewell Culture National Historical Park, and the Center for Digital Antiquity), our primary goal is to provide sustainable access to records from the Hopewell Mound Group (1891-1892,1922-1925) and the Mound City Group (1920-21, 1963-1975). This collaboration will aggregate collections torn asunder by the vagaries of time and foster a new era of historical and archaeological scholarship.