THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Agency: National Endowment For The Humanities
NAICS: 541720 - Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities
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.]

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