I'm very happy to say that the NEH has just announced 18 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 286 awards announced yesterday by the NEH.  For a full state-by-state list of all the awards, please see the press release.   Recently Announced Awards in the Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant program:    City of Philadelphia, Department of Records -- Philadelphia, PA Historic Overlays on Smart Phones Joan Decker, Project Director Outright: $49,885 To support: The development of prototype mobile phone applications that would allow users to see historic photographs of Philadelphia in the actual city locations by pointing the phone camera at the building, a technique known as "augmented reality." This project draws on the extensive records from the NEH-supported PhillyHistory.org database. Early Manuscripts Electronic Library -- Rolling Hills Estates, CA The Nyangwe Diary of David Livingstone: Restoring the Text...

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With funding from the NEH program Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, the University of South Carolina’s Center for Digital Humanities invites applications for a summer institute, held June 7-25 2010 in Columbia, SC. 

With funding from the NEH program Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University is pleased to announce "One Week | One Tool: A Digital Humanities Barn Raising."   The institute will be held this summer, from July 25 - July 31, 2010.

With funding from the NEH program Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, The University of California’s Humanities Research Institute, USC’s Institute for Multimedia Literacy, and the electronic journal Vectors are pleased to announce "Broadening the Digital Humanities: The Vectors-IML/UC-HRI Summer Institute on Multimodal Scholarship."  The institute will be held this summer, from July 19 - August 12, 2010.

This is Part III of a series of posts highlighting recent white papers from completed Start Up Grants (Parts I and II also available).  This time, we feature three white papers: Archive 2.0: Imagining the Michigan State University Israelite Samaritan Scroll Collection, Ashes2Art: Virtual Reconstructions of Ancient Monuments, and Digital Tools (AXE).

On Thursday, December 3, I attended a ceremony in Ottawa, Canada, for the announcement of the awardees of the Digging into Data Challenge.  (For a description of each winning project, please see the Digging website and the NEH's press release).  The ceremony was sponsored by SSHRC, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, which is a Canadian government grantmaking agency and one of the participating funders in the Digging competition.  The ceremony was very well-attended, with about 50 university administrators in attendance, all of whom were in town that day to attend the SSHRC Leaders Meeting.  This is an annual meeting that SSHRC holds with the Canadian higher education community to discuss funding priorities and procedures.  In addition, numerous other guests were on hand from Canadian humanities and social sciences organizations....

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I'm very pleased to tell you that on the evening of December 3, 2009, at a special ceremony in Ottawa, Canada, NEH, SSHRC, JISC, and NSF will be announcing the awardees for the Digging into Data Challenge.  The ceremony will be hosted by SSHRC President Chad Gaffield and will also feature remarks by NEH Chairman Jim Leach.  

The guidelines for the third round of the Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities program are now available!  This year's application deadline is February 17, 2010.

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. Institutes may be as short as a few days and held at multiple locations or as long as six weeks at a single site.  We’re interested in supporting a variety of different professional development models to meet the needs of humanities scholars in the United States. For information about previously funded Institutes, please visit the ODH Resource Library...

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