By Brett Bobley on 3/23/2009 9:44 AM

I just received word that the deadline for applying to the NEH-funded Vectors-IML Summer Institute on Multimodal Scholarship has been extended to March 29th.

The institute is entitled "Broadening the Digital Humanities" and was funded via our grant program "Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities."

The institute is being hosted by the University of Southern California from July 13-August 7, 2009.  Application instructions [pdf] are available now, but act quickly!

By Brett Bobley on 3/20/2009 2:16 PM

Two major application deadlines are rapidly approaching: March 26 is the deadline for the JISC/NEH Transatlantic Digitization program and April 8 is the deadline for the Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant program.  Many of you may have seen the recent memo from the Director of the Office of Management and Budget describing the technical problems going on at Grants.gov, the government-wide portal for receiving grants applications. We are working closely with Grants.gov and they do have both near and long-term plans in place for improving Grants.gov's performance.  However, these improvements will likely be well after these upcoming deadlines.  It is very important to us here at the NEH that we receive your application. If you are considering applying to one of these deadlines, here are some tips:...

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By Brett Bobley on 3/11/2009 11:39 AM

I'm very happy to say that the NEH has just announced thirteen new awards (pdf) from our Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant program. These awards are part of a larger group of 197 awards announced today.  For a full state-by-state list of all the awards, please see today's press release. Congratulations to all the awardees!

Drew University -- Madison, NJ Digital Mappaemundi: A Resource for the Study of Medieval Maps and Geographic Texts Martin Foys, Project Director Outright: $45,800 To support: An extensible, open-source editing toolset that would allow scholars to edit networks of text and image data, using medieval "maps of the world" as the development source material. Duke University -- Durham, NC Manos Teatrales: Cyber-Paleography and a Virtual World of Spanish Golden Age Theater...

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By Brett Bobley on 2/2/2009 3:48 PM

I recently finished reading the the Interim Report of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access entitled "Sustaining the Digital Investment: Issues and Challenges of Economically Sustainable Digital Preservation."  [PDF]. 

The report is very readable and engaging and really focuses on the key topic of sustainability.  The authors make the point that while we all agree that digitized materials are important for scholarship, we don't yet have a coherent plan for how to preserve these digital resources.  I like the fact that the report doesn't shy away from the economic realities of this issue -- to preserve digital resources, someone has to pay for them.  But who?  And how?  The report is a good take on helping to answer these questions.  My thanks go to Fran Berman and the rest of the Blue Ribbon Task Force who wrote this report and to NSF, Mellon, and the other organizations...

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By Brett Bobley on 1/16/2009 11:08 AM

 

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By Jason Rhody on 1/12/2009 5:26 PM

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.

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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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