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Announcement of Awardees for Start-Up and Institutes Grants

By Brett Bobley on 8/22/2008 1:12 PM

I'm very happy to say that the NEH has just announced twenty-two new awards (pdf) from our Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant program and three awards (pdf) from our new Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities program. [...]

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Brett Bobley

New Start-Up Grants Guidelines Now Available

By Jason Rhody on 8/22/2008 11:56 AM

The guidelines for the Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants are now available. The deadline for this grant program is October 8, 2008. Read on to find out more about the changes that were made to the guidelines and how you can get help with the application process.

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Jason Rhody

JISC/CNI Conference "Transforming the User Experience" (Part 3 of 3)

By Helen Aguera on 8/5/2008 10:23 PM

Part 3 of 3: Scholarly Resources

(Note this is Part 3 of a 3 part summary of the JISC/CNI Conference. Don't forget to check out Part 1 and Part 2).

Kate Wittenberg (Director of Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia University) discussed the Gutenberg-e project, a collaborative effort between Columbia University Press and the American Historical Association to explore and promote the electronic publication of scholarly writing. Wittenberg explained that post graduate scholars were awarded prizes to create born-digital monographs that offer elements that cannot be conveyed in print: extensive do ... Read More »

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Helen Aguera

JISC/CNI Conference "Transforming the User Experience" (Part 2 of 3)

By Helen Aguera on 8/4/2008 10:25 AM

Part 2 of 3: Strategic Content

The first presentation in the "Strategic Content Developments" session was by Stuart Dempster (program director at JISC). He provided an overview of the work of the Strategic Content Alliance" in developing a UK Content Framework to reduce the technical, political and administrative barriers that inhibit the use of public sector electronic content." [...]

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Helen Aguera