This is a reminder that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) invite applications to a digital humanities grant competition sponsored by the two federal agencies. The grant program, "Advancing Knowledge: The IMLS/NEH Digital Partnership," seeks applications for projects that would explore new ways to share, examine, and interpret humanities collections in a digital environment and develop new uses and audiences for existing digital resources.   Grants are intended to spur innovation and new collaborations; advance the role of cultural repositories in online teaching, learning, and research; and develop collaborative approaches involving the scholarly community and cultural reposito ... Read More »

If you are in London on January 21, please do attend the JISC/NEH event being held at King's College.  We will be celebrating the launch of our new joint digitization initiative and we have some great speakers lined up, including Chairman Bruce Cole from the NEH, and JISC Executive Secretary Malcolm Read.

Also, check out the press release that describes the joint JISC/NEH grant program.

Want to learn more about the NEH's new program Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities (IATDH)?  If so, check out this in-depth interview with DHI program officer Jennifer Serventi.

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At the recent Fall 2007 CNI Task Force Meeting here in Washington, DC, I announced two new digital humanities grant programs.  One is called Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities and the other is NEH Fellowships at Digital Humanities Centers.

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