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.  

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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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...

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I'm very happy to say that the NEH has just announced 21 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 184 awards announced today by the NEH.  For a full state-by-state list of all the awards, please see today's press release.   Also, please note that the next deadline to apply for this program is October 6, 2009.  Please consult the guidelines for more information. Recently Announced Awards in the Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant program: Alexandria Archive Institute -- San Francisco, CA The Open Modern Art Collection of Iraq: Web tools for Documenting, Sharing and Enriching Iraqi Artistic Expressions...

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With funding from the NEH program Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, the University of Virginia's Scholars Lab is hosting a three-track Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship in November 2009 and May 2010. This Institute will bring scholars, cultural heritage professionals, and software developers together to support and develop geospatial projects and methods in the humanities. The institutes will support travel and lodging for 40 attendees as well as Institute faculty members. Dedicated funding is available for graduate students as well as faculty attendees.   Schedule:   Round 1 — November 15-18, 2009 — Charlottesville, VA   Track 1: Stewardship Library, museum, GIS and digital humanities center professionals Rich geospatial content and open, flexible access in support of humanities scholarship   Track 2: Software Web developers, designers, systems administrators, and information scientists Spatially enabling web projects and building service-oriented GIS infrastructure...

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With funding from the NEH program Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, Brown University’s Women Writers Project is presenting a series of training seminars in text encoding using TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) markup.  The seminars are “…intended to provide a more in-depth look at specific encoding problems and topics for people who are already involved in a text encoding project or are in the process of planning one. Each event will include a mix of presentations, discussion, case studies using participants' projects, hands-on practice, and individual consultation.” The full seminar schedule is as follows: University of California, Santa Barbara Hosted by the English Broadside Ballad Archive and the Transliteracies Project September 14-16, 2009 This...

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