By Brett Bobley on 1/21/2010 5:08 PM

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).

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By Brett Bobley on 12/10/2009 10:51 PM

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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By Brett Bobley on 11/18/2009 12:36 PM

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.  

By Jennifer Serventi on 11/10/2009 3:37 PM

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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By Brett Bobley on 10/14/2009 9:20 AM

Ithaka has just released "Sustainability at a Glance" -- three new briefing papers on the topic of the sustainability of online educational resources.  Each briefing paper is written for a different audience:  One for curators, archivists and librarians; one for university librarians; and one for digital project managers.   These three briefing papers are a follow-on from Ithaka's earlier Case Studies in Sustainability, funded in part by the NEH.   This sustainability work is of particular importance to digital humanities projects, addressing the critical question "how do you sustain a digital humanities resource once the grant runs out?"   Please spread the word and, as always, do get in touch...

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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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