By Brett Bobley on
9/29/2008 3:18 PM
When the NEH first launched our Digital Humanities Initiative (now known as the Office of Digital Humanities) nearly three years ago, one of our goals was to help spur more work in the wide range of scholarly activities that might fall under the banner of "digital humanities." It is great to see [...]
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By Brett Bobley on
9/4/2008 2:50 PM
I'm happy to say that the guidelines for the DFG/NEH Symposia and Workshops Program are now available. This program, funded by the NEH and the DFG in Germany, is designed to fund joint workshops between American and German scholars and scientists who are working together on digital humanities projects or discussing issues related to the field. Deadline for applications is November 4, 2008.
I should note that this is the second of two joint programs we have with the DFG. The earlier program is called DFG/NEH Joint Digitization Projects and has a deadline of October 15, 2008.
If you are working with (or are considering working with) colleagues in Germany, I urge you to check out these two programs.
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By Brett Bobley on
9/4/2008 2:01 PM
As regular readers know, the NEH's Office of Digital Humanities has an ongoing Humanities High Performance Computing (HHPC) Initiative. I wanted to let you know about two upcoming HHPC-related events.
On Monday, October 6, NEH staff will present at a workshop here in Washington, D.C., entitled "Humanities Applications for the World Community Grid." This full-day workshop will feature IBM computer scientists who will conduct a hands-on session describing how high performance computer systems can be used for humanities research. [...]
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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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