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I just posted a brief piece onto the ODH website called "Why the Digital Humanities?" [PDF].  It was adapted from a presentation I gave to members of the National Council on the Humanities about the creation of the NEH’s Office of Digital Humanities.

The NEH's Division of Research is looking to fill one or more vacant program officer positions.  As a program officer, you will advise applicants about NEH grant programs, review and analyze grant proposals, select panelists, attend conferences, perform other outreach events on behalf of the NEH,  help the NEH formulate new grant programs, etc.  The job is located here in beautiful Washington, D.C.  I will also note that we have an ice cream shop right in the lobby of our building, should that factor into your decision making process.
 
We are quite keen on finding some candidates who are very knowledgeable about digital humanities.  More and more humanities research involves the use of digital technology.  So experience with databases, digitization, humanities computing, data mining, or other areas of technology as it applies to humanities research would be extremely helpful.
 
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The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has recently released a report entitled "A Survey of Digital Humanities Centers in the United States" .  The report, written by Diane Zorich, was commissioned by the Scholarly Communication Institute and will be one of the focuses of discussion at their July meeting.

The report covers a wide number of topics, including a definition of a digital humanities center, governance models, administration and operation of centers, sustainability, and trends.  There is also an appendix to the report written by Lilly Nguyen and Katie Shilton entitled "Tools for Humanists" that focuses on t ... Read More »

I wanted to pass on a grant announcement from our colleagues at the IMLS.  They have recently announced an award for the "Digital Humanities Model Internship Program."  This grant will "create eighteen internships for master’s of library science students interested in careers in digital humanities centers or digital libraries."  The grantees are the University of Maryland, University of Michigan, and University of Texas at Austin, which will be partnering with three digital humanities centers:  MITH (Maryland), CDRH (Nebraska), and MATRIX (Michigan State).

On May 8th, I took the train up to New York to attend a workshop on the topic of "Sustainability and Revenue Models for Online Academic Resources."  The workshop was co-sponsored by JISC’s Strategic Content Alliance and Ithaka.  In advance of the workshop, all attendees were asked to read and comment on a recent Ithaka report that lays out many of the sustainability challenges facing online academic projects and explores some possible solutions.  If you haven’t read the report, I urge you to ... Read More »

I want to remind everyone that NEH’s Division of Preservation and Access recently announced the new deadline for our Humanities Collections and Resources program.  This is one of our key, large-grant digital humanities programs.  It can be used for things like

•       digitizing collections;
•       cataloging collections of printed works, photographs, recorded sound, moving image, art, and material culture;
•       preservation reformatting;
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