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...

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ODH Update Jason Rhody

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...

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ODH Update Brett Bobley