NEH Office of Digital Humanities

Author:	Jason Rhody	Created:	2/28/2008 9:09 AM
Updates by Jason Rhody

NEH Announces Awards for JISC/NEH Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration Program

By Jason Rhody on 9/16/2009 2:50 PM

I'm very happy to say that the NEH has just announced 3 new awards from our JISC/NEH Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration grant program. This program is jointly funded by the NEH and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), a joint committee of the U.K. further and higher education funding bodies. Within the NEH, the program is jointly administered by both the Office of Digital Humanities and the Division of Preservation and Access. For more information, please consult today's press release. Congratulations to the three awardees: American Museum of Natural History -- New York, NY Digitizing Darwin's Library David Kohn, Project Director Outright: $119,999 To support: The digital reconstruction of Charles Darwin's working library as it stood at the end of his life, to include the presentation of the complex array of annotations...

DFG/NEH Symposia & Workshops Guidelines Now Available

By Jason Rhody on 8/27/2009 2:05 PM

The guidelines for the DFG/NEH Bilateral Symposia and Workshops program are now available on the NEH website (the DFG version of the guidelines can be found here in PDF format). The application deadline is October 29, 2009. As always, feel free to contact us with questions, requests to read drafts (six weeks prior to deadline, please), or if you just want to chat about a project idea.

Remember also that the DFG/NEH Enriching Digital Collections program (guidelines) has a deadline of October 8, 2009. The Start-Up Grant program (guidelines) deadline is October 6, 2009.

DFG/NEH: New Awards / New Funding Opportunities

By Jason Rhody on 7/9/2009 4:22 PM

DFG/NEH: New Awards / New Funding Opportunities We are pleased to announce two exciting bits of news: the awardees from the DFG/NEH Joint Digitization Projects program and the future of DFG/NEH grant programs. Announcement of DFG/NEH Joint Digitization Project Awardees This program offered support for digital humanities projects funded by NEH in collaboration with the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft or DFG) in Germany. These grants provided combined funding of up to $350,000 for up to three years of development in for new digitization projects, the addition of important materials to existing digitization projects, or the development of infrastructure to support U.S.-German digitization work. Each project was sponsored by both an American and a German institution, whose activities will be funded by NEH and DFG respectively. These awards are part of a larger group of 154 awards recently announced by the NEH. For a full state-by-state list of all the awards, please...