J.A. Pryse

J.A. Pryse

Projects and Grants

Grant Funded Projects - Contributions and Management

  • The James R. Jones Carl Albert Center Digital Archive (PI): Ambassador James R. Jones donated $1,000,000 to facilitate the migration of all digital collections from ArchivesSpace to the Preservica digital content management platform (Gift received on 2021-08-19).

  • Digital Archives Portal: Congressional Archives for Education (co-PI) ):
    • Funding Entity: National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), $1.5 million
    • Collaborative Partners: West Virginia University Libraries (WVUL),
    • Abstract: This project will further develop the Portal’s technical infrastructure, add significantly more archival content, create educational resources for K-12 civics and history curricula, and conduct outreach activities for educators.
    • Key Project Initiatives: https://github.com/prys0000/congressional-portal-project
  • Historical Collection of Political Campaign Advertisements: Online Archiving, Automated Coding, and Scientific Analysis (co-PI):
    • Funding Entity: National Science Foundation
    • Funding Unit: Accountable Institutions and Behavior (AIB) program and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR)
    • Collaborative Partners: Harvard University and Purdue University
    • Key Project Initiatives: https://github.com/prys0000/political-commercial-collection-archives
  • The American Congress Digital Archives Portal Project,” (PI)
    • Funding Entity: National Endowment for the Humanities
    • Funding Unit: Division of Preservation and Access, Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
    • Collaborative Partners: Dirksen Congressional Center, Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas, Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies at the University of Georgia, and the University of Hawai’i
    • Key Project Initiatives: https://github.com/prys0000/congressional-portal-project
  • Congressional Correspondence Handwriting Textract Pilot Project (PI):
    • Funding Entity: Data Institute for Societal Challenges (DISC), $2,500 (Awarded on 2022-05-19)
    • Abstract: Evaluate the AWS Textract platform for optical character recognition (OCR) on handwritten letters in archival holdings
    • Key Project Initiatives: https://github.com/prys0000/archives-handwriting-text-extract-project
  • The Independent Student Voice: Access to the University of Oklahoma’s Historic Newspaper (PI):
    • Funding Entity: Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, $25,000 (Awarded on 2020-01-01)
    • Abstract: This project digitized 100 years of the Campus newspaper, resulting in over 475,000 freely accessible pages on the Gateway to Oklahoma History.
  • Redlining, a Community Driven Exhibit (PI):
    • Funding Entity: Oklahoma Humanities Foundation, $5,000 (Awarded on 2020-01-01).
    • Abstract: The project created an interactive platform that explores the after-effects of redlining through time and place using the voices of Oklahoma City communities.
  • Carl Albert Center COVID-19 Digital Curation Project (PI):
    • Funding Entity: Data Institute for Societal Challenges (DISC) at the University of Oklahoma, $5,000
    • Abstract: The project documents COVID-19 announcements, policies, and responses from various entities.
  • Carl Albert Platform of Interactive Discovery (PI):
    • Funding Entity: Oklahoma Department of Libraries and the Oklahoma Historical Records Advisory Board, $3,000
    • Abstract: The project digitized, preserved, and hosted the Carl Albert Photograph Series and related textual passages
  • Improving Access to Collections: Grants for Archival Collections Representing Oklahoma: Accessing Access to the Digital Materials of the Carl Albert Collection (PI):
    • Funding Entity: National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) through the Oklahoma Historical Records Advisory Board (OHRAB), $2,859.00
  • Sounds of History (PI):
    • Funding Entity: Oklahoma Humanities Foundation, $1,500 (Awarded on 2020-02-14).
    • Abstract: The project created an archival audio studio at the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center
  • Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center Native American Politics Archival Workshop (co-PI):
    • Funding Entity: Special Projects Fund of The American Political Science Association’s Centennial Center (APSA), $5,000
    • Abstract: The project provided funding for non-OU scholars to access the Center’s archival collections and hosts a weeklong workshop to explore unexplored segments
  • Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys, Let’s Playboys:.
    • Funding Entity: The Grammy Foundation, $20,000 (Managed in 2012-04-01)
    • Abstract: The project preserved, digitized, and produced an album of 600 hours of Bob Wills’ music recorded in the 1940s on glass transcription discs
  • The Gateway to Oklahoma History: Supported by the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation. This project involved digitizing Oklahoma newspapers before 1923, with three awards received in 2009, 2011, and 2013.
  • Oklahoma Commissioners of the Land Office Digitization and Preservation Project (PI): This project was funded with $98,000 from the Oklahoma Commissioners of Land. To enable access, it transferred and preserved over 20,000 pages of historical land records dating before Oklahoma Statehood (1905-1907).
  • The Oklahoma State Legislature Preservation and Digitization Program – Oklahoma Senate (PI): Resulted in 13 million searchable pages of Oklahoma State Senate Journals from statehood (1907) through the present, funded in FY2015.
  • Oklahoma State Tourism and Recreation Digitization Project (PI): Funded with $90,000 from the Oklahoma Department of Tourism and the State of Oklahoma. The project resulted in over 118,000 preserved and digitized maps, ledgers, photographs, and blueprints accessible within the State OMES networked platform.
  • The Living Legends Oral History Project (PI): Supported by a grant of $3,000 to digitize, preserve, and conserve 3,000 magnetic tape reel-to-reel recordings of individual oral histories from prominent Oklahoma citizens (Awarded in FY2014).