By Brett Bobley on 4/22/2008 8:41 AM

As you may have seen in today's Chronicle of Higher Education, the NEH has just announced our new Humanities High Performance Computing initiative -- HHPC for short.  Our goal is to start a conversation about how high performance computers -- supercomputers -- can be used for humanities research.  We are working with colleagues at the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation to provide you with information on how high performance/grid computing and data storage might be used for work in the humanities.  We are also announcing a new grant competition with DOE to award time and training on their machines. ...

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By Brett Bobley on 4/14/2008 4:18 PM

I'm very happy to say that the NEH's Division of Research has just posted the guidelines for our new "NEH Fellowships at Digital Humanities Centers" program ("FDHC" for short).  The NEH first announced this program back at the CNI conference in December of 2007, but now the full guidelines are available.  I would encourage all humanities centers to check out this new program and consider applying.  The deadline is September 15th, 2008.  In a nutshell, FDHC allows centers to apply for funding to bring in a visiting fellow to work on one or more humanities projects.

 

As a bit of background, this new grant program was inspired in part by the ACLS Cyberinfrastructure report,...

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By Brett Bobley on 4/3/2008 2:27 PM

I just returned from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Research Fair.  It was a great opportunity to give the UNL faculty an update about the NEH.  I also had a nice tour of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. [...]

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By Brett Bobley on 4/3/2008 2:20 PM

Andy Guess wrote a nice piece in today's Inside Higher Ed called "Rise of the Digital NEH."  It mentions the new Office of Digital Humanities and discusses some trends in digital scholarship.

By Brett Bobley on 3/26/2008 3:48 PM

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, the Folger staff set up a display of three original Shakespeare quartos, including a copy of Titus Andronicus from 1594 of which there is only one copy in the world.  (Yes, they...

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By Brett Bobley on 3/24/2008 4:08 PM

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 Update you are reading right now. By keeping it on the web, it will be easier for us to update it more frequently with information about digital humanities grants, issues, news, and events. We hope you add ODH Update to your favorite RSS/blog/news...

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By Brett Bobley on 3/20/2008 2:24 PM

NEH and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH) co-hosted a conference on January 14, 2008 to discuss the digital needs of scholarly editors.  The meeting included many leading scholarly editors and university presses.  The meeting was facilitated by Ithaka, who also wrote up the final report which is now available on the VFH website. The conference was very well done -- Meredith Quinn from Ithaka did a great job facilitating.  Joel Schwartz from the NEH's Division of Research and I were both there representing the NEH. 

One of the themes that most struck me from the conference was that of "adding value."  How can technology add value to a scholarly edition?  One obvious way is increased access;  if your edition is only available via print (and...

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By Brett Bobley on 3/11/2008 12:45 PM

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.