The guidelines for the JISC/NEH Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration Grants are now available on the NEH website (the JISC version of the guidelines can be found here).  

Also note: the Start-Up Grant (SUG) guidelines have been updated, and the next deadline is April 8, 2009.

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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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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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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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

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.