Yesterday, I attended a ceremony over at the Folger Shakespeare Library.  The occasion was NEH Chairman Bruce Cole announcing the winners of the first JISC/NEH Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration Grants.  The Director of the Folger, Gail Kern Paster, also spoke, as did the Folger's Richard Kuhta, who is the director of one of the funded projects, the "Shakespeare Quartos Archive."  Also in attendance were representatives from three of the other winning projects, including Greg Crane from Tufts, Linda Frueh from the Internet Archive, and Tom Elliott from the NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World.  For a complete description of each grant, please check out the NEH press release.  All told, a very impressive group of projects.  Just before the ceremony, ... Read More »

I'm very happy to say that on Tuesday, March 25, at a special event at the Folger Shakespeare Library here in Washington, DC, Chairman Bruce Cole is announcing that the Digital Humanities Initiative is now a permanent office here at the NEH.  Our new name is the Office of Digital Humanities (ODH).  Time to get those new business cards printed, I suppose! 

To celebrate our new name, we have also created a brand-new web presence. We hope that this new web page will be a great resource for information about the NEH and our support for digital humanities. With the new web page, we have transitioned our DHI Update e-mail newsletter into the new web-based ODH Upda ... Read More »

The NEH is proud to announce 13 brand-new awardees in our Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant category.  Please check out the list of winners.

We are also announcing a grand total of 149 awards from across the NEH.  Please check out the press release for a complete, state-by-state list.

A few months back, we made a change to our Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant program. We split it into two types of grants -- Level I and Level II.  Today I'd like to tell you more about the Level I grant.

Back on October 5, the NEH and Italy’s Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) held the first of two planned conferences to bring together U.S. and Italian digital humanities scholars. The first conference, "Using New Technologies to Explore Cultural Heritage," focused on the use of digital tools to preserve and study cultural heritage and took place Oct. 5, 2007, in Washington, D.C.

We had a lot of great speakers from the U.S. and Italy.  You can now read transcripts and view the presentations online.

In December, the NEH awarded the following digital humanities grants.  As you will see below, these came from a variety of different grant programs from across the NEH.

This is a reminder that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) invite applications to a digital humanities grant competition sponsored by the two federal agencies. The grant program, "Advancing Knowledge: The IMLS/NEH Digital Partnership," seeks applications for projects that would explore new ways to share, examine, and interpret humanities collections in a digital environment and develop new uses and audiences for existing digital resources.   Grants are intended to spur innovation and new collaborations; advance the role of cultural repositories in online teaching, learning, and research; and develop collaborative approaches involving the scholarly community and cultural reposito ... Read More »