NEH Office of Digital Humanities

Author:	Brett Bobley	Created:	2/27/2008 1:04 PM
Updates by Brett Bobley

Digging into Data Challenge Awards to Be Announced December 3rd

By Brett Bobley on 11/18/2009 12:36 PM

I'm very pleased to tell you that on the evening of December 3, 2009, at a special ceremony in Ottawa, Canada, NEH, SSHRC, JISC, and NSF will be announcing the awardees for the Digging into Data Challenge. The ceremony will be hosted by SSHRC President Chad Gaffield and will also feature remarks by NEH Chairman Jim Leach. Please look for our press release on December 3 to learn about each winning team.

Ithaka Releases "Sustainability at a Glance" Briefing Papers

By Brett Bobley on 10/14/2009 9:20 AM

Ithaka has just released "Sustainability at a Glance" -- three new briefing papers on the topic of the sustainability of online educational resources. Each briefing paper is written for a different audience: One for curators, archivists and librarians; one for university librarians; and one for digital project managers. These three briefing papers are a follow-on from Ithaka's earlier Case Studies in Sustainability, funded in part by the NEH. This sustainability work is of particular importance to digital humanities projects, addressing the critical question "how do you sustain a digital humanities resource once the grant runs out?" Please spread the word and, as always, do get in touch...

Sign Up for NEH-Funded Institute "Networks and Network Analysis for the Humanities"

By Brett Bobley on 9/8/2009 10:42 AM

With funding from the NEH program Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, the Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics at UCLA is hosting a summer institute entitled "Networks and Network Analysis for the Humanities." The institute will be held next summer, from August 15 - 27, 2010.

The institute will focus on the study of large corpora to see how complex networks enable ideas, language, and texts to move across time and space. As the organizer's note, "In recent years, attention has been drawn in both the academic and popular press to the ubiquity of networks in everyday life, from communications networks to investment networks to power transmission networks to social networks. As a result of this increasing awareness, the study of the different types of networks that link us together, and the analysis of the structure of those networks has risen to greater and greater prominence not only in the mathematical and social sciences but also in the Humanities. The institute,...