By Brett Bobley on 1/21/2010 5:08 PM

This is Part III of a series of posts highlighting recent white papers from completed Start Up Grants (Parts I and II also available).  This time, we feature three white papers: Archive 2.0: Imagining the Michigan State University Israelite Samaritan Scroll Collection, Ashes2Art: Virtual Reconstructions of Ancient Monuments, and Digital Tools (AXE).

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By Brett Bobley on 12/10/2009 10:51 PM

On Thursday, December 3, I attended a ceremony in Ottawa, Canada, for the announcement of the awardees of the Digging into Data Challenge.  (For a description of each winning project, please see the Digging website and the NEH's press release).  The ceremony was sponsored by SSHRC, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, which is a Canadian government grantmaking agency and one of the participating funders in the Digging competition.  The ceremony was very well-attended, with about 50 university administrators in attendance, all of whom were in town that day to attend the SSHRC Leaders Meeting.  This is an annual meeting that SSHRC holds with the Canadian higher education community to discuss funding priorities and procedures.  In addition, numerous other guests were on hand from Canadian humanities and social sciences organizations....

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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.