THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Agency
National Endowment For The Humanities
NAICS
712110 - Museums
Period start
2026-11-01
Period end
2028-10-31
Budget
349999.0
Place of performance
FLORIDA, UNITED STATES
Description
NOAH WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY ONLINE: PRESERVING AMERICA'S REVOLUTIONARY LANGUAGE HERITAGE [THIS PROJECT WILL CREATE COMPREHENSIVE ONLINE EDITIONS OF NOAH WEBSTER?S DICTIONARIES: THE COMPENDIOUS DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (1806) AND THE AMERICAN DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (1828), WITH SEARCH FUNCTIONALITY COMPARABLE TO MODERN SCHOLARLY DICTIONARIES. WEBSTER?S GOAL WAS TO COMPLETE AMERICA?S REVOLUTION BY ESTABLISHING AN AMERICAN LANGUAGE. HIS DICTIONARIES CAPTURE THE VOCABULARY OF AMERICA?S FORMATIVE PERIOD, PRESERVING THE REVOLUTIONARY GENERATION?S LANGUAGE OF LAW, CITIZENSHIP, AND GOVERNANCE. AS THE LAST MAJOR DICTIONARIES COMPILED BY A SINGLE PERSON, THEIR INFLUENCE MADE THE NAME "WEBSTER" SYNONYMOUS WITH ?DICTIONARY.? HOWEVER, AVAILABLE DIGITAL VERSIONS OFFER ONLY BASIC TRANSCRIPTIONS OR SCANS, LACKING IMPORTANT SEARCH FUNCTIONS AND OMITTING CRITICAL CONTENT. THIS PROJECT WILL SOLVE THIS PROBLEM BY CREATING A SEARCHABLE EDITION OF THE 1828 DICTIONARY IN TIME FOR ITS 200TH ANNIVERSARY, FOLLOWED BY A SEARCHABLE 1806 DICTIONARY.]