Articles on various ODH-sponsored workshops, projects, or initiatives.

Sustainability of Online Educational Resources

Ithaka, in cooperation with the the JISC Strategic Content Alliance, the NEH's Office of Digital Humanities, and the National Science Foundation, recently completed a study on the "Sustainability of Online Educational Resources." This study seeks to answer the question "How does a digital resource continue to thrive once the grant has run out?" Ithaka has released several reports from this study: 

• Sustainability and Revenue Models for Online Academic Resources -- this was Ithaka's initial report exploring different sustainability models.
• Case Studies in Sustainability -- focusing on specific projects and what they did to attain sustainability.
• Sustainability at a Glance -- Three short briefing papers, aimed at different audiences, that summarize sustainability strategies.
   

Working Together or Apart: Promoting the Next Generation of Digital Scholarship is now available for download via the CLIR (Council on Library and Information Resources) website.  Working Together is the final report from a symposium sponsored by the NEH and CLIR.  The symposium was held on September 15th, 2008, and brought together 30 leading scholars to discuss research challenges in the humanities, social sciences, and computation.

Tools for Data-Driven Scholarship was a conference co-sponsored by NEH, NSF, and IMLS and jointly run by two leading digital humanities centers, the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland.  The conference took place on October 22-24, 2008, on the topic of tools and methodologies for scholarship.  The final conference report is now available.

A report on the first year of the JISC / NEH Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration Grants (PDF), which were awarded in March 2008.

• Visit our HHPC Resource Page to learn about the NEH's initiative to promote Humanities High Performance Computing.
• The Digital Needs of Scholarly Editors was a conference co-hosted by the NEH and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH).  The conference was held on January 14, 2008 and included many leading scholarly editors and university presses.  The meeting was facilitated by Ithaka, who also wrote up the final report.
• Summit Meeting of Digital Humanities Centers was a 2007 workshop sponsored by the NEH and the University of Maryland's MITH.  The conference brought together the directors of 17 major digital humanities centers for two days of discussion about the role of centers for scholarship.
• Using New Technologies to Explore Cultural Heritage was a conference between the NEH and Italy's CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche).  It included leading digital humanities scholars from the US and Italy.  Transcripts and presentations are now available.