History Lab and Columbia Libraries receive additional NEH funding for Archives as Data

We are pleased to announce that the NEH Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities has awarded the History Lab and Columbia Libraries additional funding to hold Archives as Data institutes in the summers of 2025 and 2026. Keep an eye out for the summer 2025 call for participation early in 2025. 

Digital history and archiving are thriving, but the increasing volume of digitized and “born digital” materials for historical research also presents new challenges for archivists and historians. Typically, the only way to explore these resources has been through keyword searching. More direct access to the data creates tremendous new research opportunities, but the barriers to entry can seem daunting. The institutes offer practical training for historians and archivists in processing and analyzing textual data.