I'm very happy to say that the NEH has just announced 18 new awards from our Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program.  These grants support innovative projects in the digital humanities. These awards are part of a larger group of 286 awards announced yesterday by the NEH.  For a full state-by-state list of all the awards, please see the press release.   Recently Announced Awards in the Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant program:    City of Philadelphia, Department of Records -- Philadelphia, PA Historic Overlays on Smart Phones Joan Decker, Project Director Outright: $49,885 To support: The development of prototype mobile phone applications that would allow users to see historic photographs of Philadelphia in the actual city locations by pointing the phone camera at the building, a technique known as "augmented reality." This project draws on the extensive records from the NEH-supported PhillyHistory.org database. Early Manuscripts Electronic Library -- Rolling Hills Estates, CA The Nyangwe Diary of David Livingstone: Restoring the Text...

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ODH Update Brett Bobley

With funding from the NEH program Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, the University of South Carolina’s Center for Digital Humanities invites applications for a summer institute, held June 7-25 2010 in Columbia, SC. 

ODH Update Jason Rhody