By Brett Bobley on 5/13/2009 3:38 PM

Numerous ODH programs (and some programs in other NEH divisions and offices) require the grantee to submit a "white paper" at the conclusion of the grant.  In ODH, we publish these white papers in our Library of Funded Projects.  In the white paper, the grantee provides a summary of the grant activities, what they learned, recommended best practices, and even what they might have done differently.  By making these white papers freely available, members of the public -- including other prospective applicants -- can learn from what has already been done and build upon it.    In a series of posts, I'll be highlighting some of the white papers we have recently added to the library. 

Update: Part II of this series is now available.

In each case below, just click the title and then scroll down to find the "download" button to access the full report:   Approaches...

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By Brett Bobley on 4/29/2009 1:01 PM

The NEH’s Division of Preservation and Access has recently released the guidelines for the program “Humanities Collections and Reference Resources.”  This program supports projects that preserve and create intellectual access to such collections as books, journals, newspapers, manuscript and archival materials, maps, still and moving images, sound recordings, art, and objects of material culture.  The grant can cover activities such as digitizing materials, cataloging collections, implementing preservation measures, developing databases, and many others.  Please consult the guidelines for more details. The deadline for this program is July 15, 2009. 

Please note that "Humanities Collections and Reference Resources" is a separate program from "Research and Development."  The R&D program has a deadline of July 30, 2009 and you can read more about it in this earlier ODH Update...

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By Brett Bobley on 4/13/2009 1:53 PM

I'm pleased to announce that Working Together or Apart: Promoting the Next Generation of Digital Scholarship is now available for download via the CLIR (Council on Library and Information Resources) website.   Working Together is the final report from a symposium sponsored by the NEH and CLIR.  The symposium was held on September 15th, 2008, and brought together 30 leading scholars to discuss research challenges in the humanities, social sciences, and computation.  The report includes a terrific overview of the symposium written by Amy Friedlander of CLIR as well as a series of original papers commissioned for the meeting.  The papers cover a wide range of topics that should be of great interest to the...

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By Jason Rhody on 4/8/2009 3:39 PM

 We are pleased to announce the awardees from the DFG/NEH Bilateral Symposia and Workshops program.  This program offers support for digital humanities projects funded by NEH in collaboration with the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V., DFG) in Germany. These grants require collaboration between U.S. and German entities and provide funding for up to two joint symposia or workshops in the area of digital humanities.

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By Brett Bobley on 4/7/2009 1:53 PM

The NEH’s Division of Preservation and Access has just released the guidelines for the program “Preservation and Access Research and Development.”  Folks working on digital humanities projects should definitely give this program a close look.  The R&D program supports projects that address major challenges in preserving or providing access to humanities collections and resources.  This includes funding R&D efforts to develop tools, standards, and methodologies for accessing digitized collections.  In addition, you’ll see that this year the R&D program is particularly encouraging applications in the areas of digital preservation, preventive conservation, and preservation of and access to recorded sound and moving image collections. Here at the NEH, we see the R&D program as a natural next step for some graduates of the Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant program.  Many of the Start-Up grant projects are conducting basic research, building early prototypes, and investigating new methodologies for scholarship in areas related to digital collections.  So the R&D program may very well be a logical next step to move from the planning to implementation phase....

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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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