With funding from the NEH program Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University is pleased to announce "One Week | One Tool: A Digital Humanities Barn Raising."   The institute will be held this summer, from July 25 - July 31, 2010.

With funding from the NEH program Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, The University of California’s Humanities Research Institute, USC’s Institute for Multimedia Literacy, and the electronic journal Vectors are pleased to announce "Broadening the Digital Humanities: The Vectors-IML/UC-HRI Summer Institute on Multimodal Scholarship."  The institute will be held this summer, from July 19 - August 12, 2010.

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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