By Brett Bobley on
8/22/2008 1:12 PM
I'm very happy to say that the NEH has just announced twenty-two new awards (pdf) from our Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant program and three awards (pdf) from our new Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities program. [...]
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By Jason Rhody on
8/22/2008 11:56 AM
The guidelines for the Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants are now available. The deadline for this grant program is October 8, 2008. Read on to find out more about the changes that were made to the guidelines and how you can get help with the application process.
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By Helen Aguera on
8/5/2008 10:23 PM
Part 3 of 3: Scholarly Resources
(Note this is Part 3 of a 3 part summary of the JISC/CNI Conference. Don't forget to check out Part 1 and Part 2).
Kate Wittenberg (Director of Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia University) discussed the Gutenberg-e project, a collaborative effort between Columbia University Press and the American Historical Association to explore and promote the electronic publication of scholarly writing. Wittenberg explained that post graduate scholars were awarded prizes to create born-digital monographs that offer elements that cannot be conveyed in print: extensive documentation, hyperlinks to supplementary literature, images, music, video, and links to related web sites. The 27 monographs published thus far have undergone a rigorous academic review process by distinguished historians. Among the interesting results of the project are: authors and publishers had to collaborate more closely in developing these publications; academic attitudes are increasingly...
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By Helen Aguera on
8/4/2008 10:25 AM
Part 2 of 3: Strategic Content
The first presentation in the "Strategic Content Developments" session was by Stuart Dempster (program director at JISC). He provided an overview of the work of the Strategic Content Alliance" in developing a UK Content Framework to reduce the technical, political and administrative barriers that inhibit the use of public sector electronic content." [...]
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By Brett Bobley on
7/31/2008 10:15 AM
I just posted a brief piece onto the ODH website called "Why the Digital Humanities?" [PDF]. It was adapted from a presentation I gave to members of the National Council on the Humanities about the creation of the NEH’s Office of Digital Humanities.
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By Helen Aguera on
7/30/2008 4:26 PM
Post 1 of 3: Collections
On July 10 and 11, I attended the 7th JISC/CNI conference, "Transforming the User Experience," held in Belfast, UK. The meeting brought together over 130 delegates from over 40 universities in the United States, Europe, and the United Kingdom to explore major developments on the use of information technology in teaching, learning and research on both sides of the Atlantic.
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By Jason Rhody on
7/18/2008 12:38 PM
We have good news for those of you eagerly anticipating the full set of guidelines for the new 2008 Call for Joint Digitization Projects, which is part of the DFG/NEH Bilateral Digital Humanities Program that we announced a few weeks ago. The Digitization guidelines are now available on the NEH Web site and the DFG Web site. Note that while there may be some administrative differences between the two sets of guidelines, the core requirements are the same. At least one German and one U.S. institution will collaborate on a single proposal, which will be submitted to NEH by the U.S. partner and to DFG by the German partner. The combined sum of the request can range from $100,000 to $350,000 (approximately 70,000 to 240,000 € ) for...
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By David Weinstein on
7/17/2008 9:41 AM
Three screens. Smart phones. Locative media. I recently participated in Beyond Broadcast, Silverdocs, and the Digital Media Conference. At each of these conferences, there was lots of buzz about applications and content for mobile phones.
According to a market summary by m:metrics, there are 226 million mobile phone subscribers in the United States. Twenty-seven percent of these subscribers use their phone for Internet browsing or downloading. Internet use is expected to rise dramatically in the near future. Most phones in use (about ninety percent) have browsing capabilities.
Mobile technology offers tremendous potential to provide scholarly content about historic places. In the humanities, the technology is becoming especially popular...
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