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Mapping Texts: Visualizing Historical American Newspapers

The Mapping Texts project, a collaboration between the University of North Texas and Stanford University, recently released two new interactive visualizations that allow users to map language patterns...

By Brett Bobley
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Visualizing Emancipation Project Launches

The University of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab recently launched “Visualizing Emancipation

Today's Chronicle: "Breaking Down Menus Digitally, Dish by Dish"

In today's Chronicle of Higher Education, there is a terrific profile of NYPL Labs -- the digital innovation arm of the New York Public Library. The article by Jennifer Howard is called "Breaking Down Menus Digitally, Dish by Dish" and discusses some of the innovative and engaging ways that NYPL Labs is helping to develop the library of the future. 

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Videos of 2011 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 27, 2011 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, two-minute presentations on their projects.

Announcing 22 New Start-Up Grant Awards (March 2012)

The Office of Digital Humanities is happy to announce 22 new awards from our Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant program from our September, 2011 deadline. These awards are part of a larger slate of 208 grants announced by the NEH.

Products, Prizes, and Media Coverage: A New Crowdsourcing Effort from the NEH

Over the course of the last 46 years as a humanities research agency, the NEH has funded thousands of grants. These grants often lead to amazing projects, including publications and “products” of all sorts. For example, NEH grants lead to award-winning books, films, journal articles, websites, dictionaries, conference papers, summer institutes, software programs, radio programs and so on. We thought it would be terrific to create a database of all these products and tie them back to the grants that funded them.

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The Scripto Transcription Tool

Scripto, an on-line transcription tool funded through the NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant program, allows volunteers to transcribe hand-written historic documents.

Screen shots from the Murder on Beacon Hill iPhone application

Handheld History: Murder on Beacon Hill

Walking Cinema: Murder on Beacon Hill, an ODH-supported, location-aware mobile application, became the first iPhone app to be featured at a major international film festival.

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Posted: May 9, 2012

Mapping Texts: Visualizing Historical American Newspapers

The Mapping Texts project, a collaboration between the University of North Texas and Stanford University, recently released two new interactive visualizations that allow users to map language patterns embedded in 230,000 pages of digitized historical newspapers from the late 1820s through the early 2000s.

Posted: May 4, 2012

ODH in the News

With the announcement of our most recent round of 22 funded Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants projects and the continued accomplishments of many other ODH projects, we have seen a number of news stories in recent weeks featuring ODH grantees.

Posted: April 30, 2012

Today's Chronicle: "Breaking Down Menus Digitally, Dish by Dish"

In today's Chronicle of Higher Education, there is a terrific profile of NYPL Labs -- the digital innovation arm of the New York Public Library. The article by Jennifer Howard is called "Breaking Down Menus Digitally, Dish by Dish" and discusses some of the innovative and engaging ways that NYPL Labs is helping to develop the library of the future. 

Posted: March 21, 2012

Announcing 22 New Start-Up Grant Awards (March 2012)

The Office of Digital Humanities is happy to announce 22 new awards from our Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant program from our September, 2011 deadline. These awards are part of a larger slate of 208 grants announced by the NEH.

Posted: February 27, 2012

Products, Prizes, and Media Coverage: A New Crowdsourcing Effort from the NEH

Over the course of the last 46 years as a humanities research agency, the NEH has funded thousands of grants. These grants often lead to amazing projects, including publications and “products” of all sorts. For example, NEH grants lead to award-winning books, films, journal articles, websites, dictionaries, conference papers, summer institutes, software programs, radio programs and so on. We thought it would be terrific to create a database of all these products and tie them back to the grants that funded them.

Posted: February 16, 2012

Videos of 2011/2012 ODH Institute Directors

We're happy to say that we now have videos from the annual Office of Digital Humanities Project Directors Meeting, held September 27, 2011 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, watch the directors of NEH's Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities give short, two-minute presentations on their upcoming institutes.

Posted: February 16, 2012

Videos of 2011 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 27, 2011 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, two-minute presentations on their projects.

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Posted: June 12, 2012

JCDL Conference (Special Panel on Digging into Data Challenge)

June 12, 2012. Brett Bobley and Jennifer Serventi will be on a panel called "The Digging into Data Challenge: A Roundtable Discussion" at the 2012 JCDL Conference in Washington, DC. Joining us will be staff from NSF, IMLS, JISC, and CLIR as well as three PIs from Digging projects.

Posted: April 5, 2012

DH2012 Conference

July 16 - 22, 2012. ODH's Brett Bobley and Jason Rhody will be attending the DH2012 conference at the University of Hamburg, Germany.

Posted: April 3, 2012

NITLE Summit

April 15-16, 2012. ODH's Brett Bobley will be representing the NEH at the NITLE Summit Meeting.

Posted: December 1, 2011

ODH at the 2012 AHA (American Historical Association) Meeting

January 5 - 8, 2012. ODH's Jennifer Serventi will be attending the AHA (American Historical Association) Annual Meeting, this year held in Chicago, Illinois.

Posted: December 1, 2011

ODH at the 2012 MLA (Modern Language Association) Meeting

January 5 - 8, 2012.

Posted: April 1, 2010

NEH at Organization of American Historians Meeting

I wanted to alert all historians and friends of historians that there will be a contingent of staff from the National Endowment for the Humanities at the 2010 Organization of American Historians annual meeting here in Washington, DC from April 7-10, 2010.

Posted: December 23, 2008

NEH at AHA

While my colleague Jason is at MLA, I wanted to alert all you historians and friends of historians that there will be an NEH contingent at the American Historical Association meeting in New York during the first week of January. Several of us from various NEH Divisions and Offices will be available to discuss project ideas.

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