By Brett Bobley on 4/29/2009 1:01 PM

The NEH’s Division of Preservation and Access has recently released the guidelines for the program “Humanities Collections and Reference Resources.”  This program supports projects that preserve and create intellectual access to such collections as books, journals, newspapers, manuscript and archival materials, maps, still and moving images, sound recordings, art, and objects of material culture.  The grant can cover activities such as digitizing materials, cataloging collections, implementing preservation measures, developing databases, and many others.  Please consult the guidelines for more details. The deadline for this program is July 15, 2009. 

Please note that "Humanities Collections and Reference Resources" is a separate program from "Research and Development."  The R&D program has a deadline of July 30, 2009 and you can read more about it in this earlier ODH Update...

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By Brett Bobley on 4/13/2009 1:53 PM

I'm pleased to announce that Working Together or Apart: Promoting the Next Generation of Digital Scholarship is now available for download via the CLIR (Council on Library and Information Resources) website.   Working Together is the final report from a symposium sponsored by the NEH and CLIR.  The symposium was held on September 15th, 2008, and brought together 30 leading scholars to discuss research challenges in the humanities, social sciences, and computation.  The report includes a terrific overview of the symposium written by Amy Friedlander of CLIR as well as a series of original papers commissioned for the meeting.  The papers cover a wide range of topics that should be of great interest to the...

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By Jason Rhody on 4/8/2009 3:39 PM

 We are pleased to announce the awardees from the DFG/NEH Bilateral Symposia and Workshops program.  This program offers support for digital humanities projects funded by NEH in collaboration with the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V., DFG) in Germany. These grants require collaboration between U.S. and German entities and provide funding for up to two joint symposia or workshops in the area of digital humanities.

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By Brett Bobley on 4/7/2009 1:53 PM

The NEH’s Division of Preservation and Access has just released the guidelines for the program “Preservation and Access Research and Development.”  Folks working on digital humanities projects should definitely give this program a close look.  The R&D program supports projects that address major challenges in preserving or providing access to humanities collections and resources.  This includes funding R&D efforts to develop tools, standards, and methodologies for accessing digitized collections.  In addition, you’ll see that this year the R&D program is particularly encouraging applications in the areas of digital preservation, preventive conservation, and preservation of and access to recorded sound and moving image collections. Here at the NEH, we see the R&D program as a natural next step for some graduates of the Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant program.  Many of the Start-Up grant projects are conducting basic research, building early prototypes, and investigating new methodologies for scholarship in areas related to digital collections.  So the R&D program may very well be a logical next step to move from the planning to implementation phase....

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