By Jason Rhody on 9/16/2009 2:50 PM

I'm very happy to say that the NEH has just announced 3 new awards from our JISC/NEH Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration grant program.  This program is jointly funded by the NEH and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), a joint committee of the U.K. further and higher education funding bodies. Within the NEH, the program is jointly administered by both the Office of Digital Humanities and the Division of Preservation and Access.  For more information, please consult today's press release.  Congratulations to the three awardees:   American Museum of Natural History -- New York, NY Digitizing Darwin's Library David Kohn, Project Director Outright: $119,999 To support: The digital reconstruction of Charles Darwin's working library as it stood at the end of his life, to include the presentation of the complex array of annotations...

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By Brett Bobley on 9/8/2009 10:42 AM

With funding from the NEH program Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, the Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics at UCLA is hosting a summer institute entitled "Networks and Network Analysis for the Humanities."  The institute will be held next summer, from August 15 - 27, 2010. 

The institute will focus on the study of large corpora to see how complex networks enable ideas, language, and texts to move across time and space.  As the organizer's note, "In recent years, attention has been drawn in both the academic and popular press to the ubiquity of networks in everyday life, from communications networks to investment networks to power transmission networks to social networks. As a result of this increasing awareness, the study of the different types of networks that link us together, and the analysis of the structure of those networks has risen to greater and greater prominence not only in the mathematical and social sciences but also in the Humanities. The institute,...

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By Jason Rhody on 8/27/2009 2:05 PM

The guidelines for the DFG/NEH Bilateral Symposia and Workshops program are now available on the NEH website (the DFG version of the guidelines can be found here in PDF format).  The application deadline is October 29, 2009.  As always, feel free to contact us with questions, requests to read drafts (six weeks prior to deadline, please), or if you just want to chat about a project idea.

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By Jennifer Serventi on 8/24/2009 1:05 PM

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By Brett Bobley on 8/20/2009 12:09 PM

I'm very happy to say that the NEH has just announced 21 new awards from our Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program.  These grants support innovative projects in the digital humanities. These awards are part of a larger group of 184 awards announced today by the NEH.  For a full state-by-state list of all the awards, please see today's press release.   Also, please note that the next deadline to apply for this program is October 6, 2009.  Please consult the guidelines for more information. Recently Announced Awards in the Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant program: Alexandria Archive Institute -- San Francisco, CA The Open Modern Art Collection of Iraq: Web tools for Documenting, Sharing and Enriching Iraqi Artistic Expressions...

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By Brett Bobley on 8/10/2009 9:01 AM

With funding from the NEH program Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, the University of Virginia's Scholars Lab is hosting a three-track Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship in November 2009 and May 2010. This Institute will bring scholars, cultural heritage professionals, and software developers together to support and develop geospatial projects and methods in the humanities. The institutes will support travel and lodging for 40 attendees as well as Institute faculty members. Dedicated funding is available for graduate students as well as faculty attendees.   Schedule:   Round 1 — November 15-18, 2009 — Charlottesville, VA   Track 1: Stewardship Library, museum, GIS and digital humanities center professionals Rich geospatial content and open, flexible access in support of humanities scholarship   Track 2: Software Web developers, designers, systems administrators, and information scientists Spatially enabling web projects and building service-oriented GIS infrastructure...

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By Brett Bobley on 8/3/2009 9:25 AM

With funding from the NEH program Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, Brown University’s Women Writers Project is presenting a series of training seminars in text encoding using TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) markup.  The seminars are “…intended to provide a more in-depth look at specific encoding problems and topics for people who are already involved in a text encoding project or are in the process of planning one. Each event will include a mix of presentations, discussion, case studies using participants' projects, hands-on practice, and individual consultation.” The full seminar schedule is as follows: University of California, Santa Barbara Hosted by the English Broadside Ballad Archive and the Transliteracies Project September 14-16, 2009 This...

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By Brett Bobley on 7/28/2009 4:07 PM

The next Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant deadline is October 6, 2009.  If you are considering applying, I want to pass on some important advice.  Applicants often ask:  "To what audience should I address my proposal?"  The answer is: a general one.  Your application will be read by a variety of people including peer reviewers, NEH staff, and members of the NEH’s National Council on the Humanities.    Hence,  I wish to strongly emphasize the importance of writing your application in a clear fashion that can be understood by a non-technical audience.  We realize that your project may be technical in nature and that part of the application will have to address complex technology issues.  But particularly in your abstract and in the first portion of your narrative, it is very important that you write to a general audience that is familiar with the humanities, but may have no specific knowledge of technology or...

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