By Brett Bobley on 12/23/2008 4:51 PM

On December 18, the NEH announced $15.7 million in new grant funding. Among the 248 new grants that were announced there are several that will be of great interest to the digital humanities community. Two of the grants were from our Digital Humanities Challenge Grants program.  Challenge Grants are designed to fund infrastructure and long-term institutional support.  These grants require the institution to raise matching funds (usually in a ratio of 3 to 1).  I’m happy to say that two leading digital humanities centers were recipients of Challenge Grants. They are: I-CHASS (Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, received a $750,000 Challenge Grant to establish an endowment that will help fund three positions at I-CHASS: an Associate Director for Data Analytics and Pattern Recognition, an Associate Director for Human-Computer Interaction, and an Assistant Director in Modeling. ...

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By Jennifer Serventi on 12/23/2008 2:53 PM

While my colleague Jason is at MLA, I wanted to alert all you historians and friends of historians that there will be an NEH contingent at the American Historical Association meeting in New York during the first week of January. Several of us from various NEH Divisions and Offices will be available to discuss project ideas.  Our official session will be held on Saturday, January 3, from 4:45 pm to 6:00 pm, in Concourse E at the Hilton.  We'll present an overview of the various programs offered by the NEH and we have allotted lots of time for the question and answer period.  If this session somehow conflicts with your other AHA activities, NEH also will have an information table on 3rd Floor East Promenade at the Hilton.  Please stop by to say hello...

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By Jason Rhody on 12/19/2008 5:02 PM

By Brett Bobley on 12/15/2008 11:52 AM

In the past few weeks, I’ve been following two big news stories involving NEH grantees.  On November 12, there were articles in both the NY Times and the London Times Online about the Rome Reborn project, which was created by the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) at the University of Virginia.  The articles included interviews with project director Bernie Frischer who noted that Rome Reborn is now available to the general public via the popular Google Earth platform.  In related news, Google announced the Ancient Rome 3D Curriculum Competition, which will...

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By Brett Bobley on 12/3/2008 2:31 PM

On September 15th, the NEH and CLIR (Council on Library and Information Resources) co-hosted a symposium entitled "Promoting Digital Scholarship: Formulating Research Challenges in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Computation."  At the symposium, we invited a group of some thirty leading scholars to brainstorm about research challenges for the digital humanities.

 

I'm very pleased to say that CLIR has

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By Jason Rhody on 12/3/2008 11:34 AM

We are very pleased to announce that, in partnership with the Joint Information System Committee (JISC) in the United Kingdom, NEH will be offering a second round of grants for the Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration program.   The guidelines should be available later this month, but we wanted to alert potential applicants so that you could start developing the necessary partnerships. 

The deadline for applications will be in March 2009. 

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By Brett Bobley on 12/2/2008 10:54 AM

The guidelines for the Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities program are now available!  The application deadline is February 18th.  The new early deadline was put in place to allow funded projects to conduct their training institute as early as the summer of 2009.

These NEH grants support national or regional training programs for scholars and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities. Through these programs, NEH seeks to increase the number of humanities scholars using digital technology in their research and broadly disseminate knowledge about advanced technology tools and methodologies relevant to the humanities.

If your institution has a particular expertise in how to apply digital technology to humanities scholarship, please consider hosting a training institute to share your methodologies and best practices with others.

If you have any questions or wish to...

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By Brett Bobley on 12/1/2008 12:03 PM

On November 18, I gave a presentation at the Supercomputing 2008 conference in Austin, Texas and announced the winners of the NEH/Department of Energy Humanities High Performance Computing program.  These grants provide computer time on DOE machines at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as well as training and support to enable scholars to take full advantage of those resources in accordance with the DOE High-End Computing Revitalization Act of 2004 (P.L. 108–423) which authorized the Department to “provide for sustained access by the research community in the United States to high-end computing systems and to Leadership Systems, including provision of technical support for users of such systems.”  The grants announced were: 

The Perseus...

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