In the May 8th edition of HPCwire, John West wrote a piece called “High Performance Humanities” that discusses the NEH’s new HHPC initiative.  It was great to see coverage of the new initiative in a leading HPC publication.  One of our stated goals here in the Office of Digital Humanities is to inspire collaborations across disciplines.  My hope is that the computing specialists who are regular readers of HPCwire will take an interest in the many computing challenges we have here in the humanities.
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As many of you know, on April 22, the NEH announced our HHPC (Humanities High Performance Computing) initiative.  So imagine my surprise when I was reading Geoffrey Rockwell's blog post later that same day.  It turns out that on the very day the NEH announced our HHPC initiative, a group of Canadian scholars and scientists were having a two-day workshop on that very subject.  The workshop was called Read More »

I just returned from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Research Fair.  It was a great opportunity to give the UNL faculty an update about the NEH.  I also had a nice tour of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. [...]

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Andy Guess wrote a nice piece in today's Inside Higher Ed called "Rise of the Digital NEH."  It mentions the new Office of Digital Humanities and discusses some trends in digital scholarship.

Yesterday, I attended a ceremony over at the Folger Shakespeare Library.  The occasion was NEH Chairman Bruce Cole announcing the winners of the first JISC/NEH Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration Grants.  The Director of the Folger, Gail Kern Paster, also spoke, as did the Folger's Richard Kuhta, who is the director of one of the funded projects, the "Shakespeare Quartos Archive."  Also in attendance were representatives from three of the other winning projects, including Greg Crane from Tufts, Linda Frueh from the Internet Archive, and Tom Elliott from the NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World.  For a complete description of each grant, please check out the NEH press release.  All told, a very impressive group of projects.  Just before the ceremony, ... Read More »

I'm very happy to say that on Tuesday, March 25, at a special event at the Folger Shakespeare Library here in Washington, DC, Chairman Bruce Cole is announcing that the Digital Humanities Initiative is now a permanent office here at the NEH.  Our new name is the Office of Digital Humanities (ODH).  Time to get those new business cards printed, I suppose! 

To celebrate our new name, we have also created a brand-new web presence. We hope that this new web page will be a great resource for information about the NEH and our support for digital humanities. With the new web page, we have transitioned our DHI Update e-mail newsletter into the new web-based ODH Upda ... Read More »