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White House Champions of Change Eric Kansa and Will Noel

NEH Grantees Honored as White House Open Science Champions of Change

NEH grantees Eric Kansa and William Noel will be among 13 scholars and scientists being honored at the White House Open Science Champions of Change event on June 20.

By Brett Bobley
The Boat Builders, Winslow Homer

Digital Public Library of America Launches

The initial prototype of the public DPLA website launched this afternoon, providing access to over 2.4 million digital books, manuscripts, photographs, maps, and other resources critical to humanities scholarship and learning.

Announcing 4 NEH/DFG Bilateral Digital Humanities Program Awards

The Office of Digital Humanities is pleased to announce 4 awards from our NEH/DFG Bilateral Digital Humanities Program from our September 2012 deadline.  Each project represents a collaborative effort between at least one partner based in the United States and one partner based in Germany. Congratulations to all the awardees!

Announcing 23 Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant Awards (March 2013)

The Office of Digital Humanities is happy to announce 23 awards from our Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant program from our September 2012 deadline. These awards are part of a larger slate of 205 grants just announced by the NEH.

Congratulations to all the awardees for their terrific projects!

Eat, Drink, and Be Mummy: Digging into Data Uncovers Surprising Health News

Digging in Data Challenge grant projects develop and explore technologically inventive and computationally creative research methods that drill into massive data sets to arrive at new questions and surprising answers.

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The Root of STEM: The Buzz from the McBee-hive

The science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields are --and will be--essential in a world that is increasingly dependent on digital technology for our social interactions, economic livelihood, national security, and grumpy cat memes.  But this is not to say that the STEM fields have nothing to benefit from the humanities or that technological invention and innovation precludes the vital place humanities education and research has in a digital landscape.

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ODH in the News

Several of our Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant awardees have received media attention in recent weeks.

McBee KeySort cards

Me and Mr. McBee*

Before the “digital revolution” and “desktop computing” and the “internet,” there were McBee KeySort cards.

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Posted: May 29, 2013

Announcing 4 NEH/DFG Bilateral Digital Humanities Program Awards

The Office of Digital Humanities is pleased to announce 4 awards from our NEH/DFG Bilateral Digital Humanities Program from our September 2012 deadline.  Each project represents a collaborative effort between at least one partner based in the United States and one partner based in Germany. Congratulations to all the awardees!

Posted: April 8, 2013

Announcing 23 Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant Awards (March 2013)

The Office of Digital Humanities is happy to announce 23 awards from our Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant program from our September 2012 deadline. These awards are part of a larger slate of 205 grants just announced by the NEH.

Congratulations to all the awardees for their terrific projects!

Posted: February 15, 2013

ODH in the News

Several of our Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant awardees have received media attention in recent weeks.

Posted: November 28, 2012

2013 Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Guidelines Now Available

The guidelines for the sixth round of the Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities (IATDH) program are now available. We’re looking for organizations and institutions interested in leading next year’s crop of institutes. This year's application deadline is March 7, 2013. Now is the time to begin preparing an application.

Posted: November 16, 2012

Videos of 2012/2013 ODH Institute Directors

Interested in attending an ODH-funding Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities? We're pleased to say that we now have videos from the project directors for each of the institutes that will be held in 2013. These videos were shot at the annual ODH Project Directors meeting, this year held on September 20, 2012. In each 3-minute lightning talk, the director(s) will describe the topics to be covered at the institute. Please note that information on how to apply to each institute will be available by mid-December, 2012. We hope you consider applying!

Posted: November 16, 2012

Videos of 2012 Digital Humanities Start-Up Grantees

We're happy to say that we now have videos from the annual Office of Digital Humanities Project Directors Meeting, held September 20, 2012 at the Old Post Office in Washington, DC. This meeting brought together top researchers in the digital humanities from across the United States.

In these videos below, watch the directors of NEH's Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants give short, three-minute lightning presentations on their projects.

Posted: November 16, 2012

Videos of 2012 Digital Humanities Implementation Grantees

We're happy to say that we now have videos from the annual Office of Digital Humanities Project Directors Meeting, held September 20, 2012 at the Old Post Office in Washington, DC. This meeting brought together top researchers in the digital humanities from across the United States.

In these videos below, watch the directors of NEH's Digital Humanities Implementation Grants give short, three-minute lightning presentations on their projects.

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Posted: June 21, 2013

ODH Staff at ALA

ODH Program Officer Perry Collins will join fellow program staff from the Divisions of Public Programs and Preservation and Access at the American Library Association annual meeting in Chicago, IL, from Fri., June 28th-Mon., July 1.

Posted: March 13, 2013

Grants Workshop in Boston at "Days of DH" Conference

Join NEH's Brett Bobley at a Grants Workshop for Boston-area institutions.

Posted: February 25, 2013

Personal Digital Archiving 2013

On February 21-22, ODH Program Officer Perry Collins attended Personal Digital Archiving at the University of Maryland-College Park.

Posted: February 25, 2013

WebWise 2013

On Thursday, March 7, from 6-7 pm, NEH staff will participate in a "Speed Networking and Consulting Session" at the Institute of Museum and Library Services WebWise conference.

Posted: February 22, 2013

CUR Dialogues 2013

On February 22, 2013, ODH's Jennifer Serventi will participate in the session "Opportunities in Digital Humanities" at the Council on Undergraduate Research 2013 CUR Dialogues meeting in Washington, DC.

Posted: February 4, 2013

iConference 2013

On February 13, 2013, ODH's Jennifer Serventi will participate in a Federal Funders Panel with representatives from the National Science Foundation and the Institute of Museum and Library Services at the iConference 2013 meeting in Fort Worth, Texas.

Posted: January 24, 2013

ODH's Brett Bobley to Speak at Georgetown University

On February 13, 2013, at Georgetown University.

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