Grants
Crowdsourced Data: Accuracy, Accessibility, Authority (CDAAA): 2022-2025: In this Early Career Research Development project, Dr. Victoria Van Hyning at the University of Maryland will investigate the significant challenges and sociotechnical barriers that libraries, archives, and museums (LAMs) face in integrating crowdsourced transcriptions of cultural heritage materials into their content management systems (CMSs). This project will recruit 12 LAM partners and 12 screen reader users for research activities including surveys, semi-structured interviews, data integration demonstrations, and user testing. The project team will produce data for analysis leading to the project’s outputs of individualized LAM Partner Reports, a summative white paper, and open-access journal articles. This research will benefit staff at LAMs to better understand the barriers to crowdsourced data integration and to adapt plans for their own organizations; crowdsource volunteers by ensuring their work remains meaningful and sustainable; and support people who use screen readers by improving their accessibility to cultural heritage through LAM CMSs.
Folger Institute Fellow: 2022-2023: Folger Shakespeare Library, 1 month fellowship to clean, deposit and describe data from Shakespeare’s World and prepare a short data paper for the Journal of Open Humanities Data.
Transforming Libraries and Archives through Crowdsourcing: 2016-2019: IMLS funded Zooniverse’s “Transforming Libraries and Archives through Crowdsourcing” grant for $1.27 million, which supported the creation of 4 bespoke transcription projects for LAMs, including Scribes of the Cairo Geniza and Anti-Slavery Manuscripts, which allowed Zooniverse to build and systematically test the efficiency and accuracy of new audio and transcription tools for cultural heritage institutions. The successful tools have been added to the free Zooniverse Project Builder platform, and supported over 50 transcription projects since 2016. Van Hyning was the lead architect of “Transforming’s” research questions, and the grant is summarized in this trade publication article: Van Hyning, Victoria, Samantha Blickhan, Laura Trouille, and Chris Lintott. “Transforming Libraries and Archives through Crowdsourcing.” D-Lib Magazine 23, no. 5/6 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1045/may2017-vanhyning.
Awards
Service Award, Library of Congress. 2020
“On the spot award” for services to the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress, for identifying and working to rectify a problem with digitized images in the Mary Church Terrell collection, and associated problems with transcriptions produced on By the People. 2019.
“Award for Excellence” Oxford Reward and Recognition Scheme, Humanities Division, Oxford University. Leadership. 2017.
GLAMi Award for AnnoTate, 2016.
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship. 2015-2018
Michael Williams Research Fund, Catholic Record Society award to support research for an academic
monograph. 2014–2016.