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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 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.

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Me and Mr. McBee*

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

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Digitizing NEH's Early Grant Records: Our First Grant

We're embarking on this cool new project to digitize all our early grant records between 1965 (when the agency was founded) and 1980 (when we first began using a computer to process grants). I'd like to introduce you to Ann Sneesby-Koch, who is working right here in ODH HQ and helping us on this project. Ann has an MS in Information Science from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and an MA in Classical Studies from the University of Maryland. We're super-pleased to have her on board running this project for us. I've asked Ann to blog periodically on how her work is progressing. When done, you'll be able to search all NEH grants right back to our founding. Let me kick things off with just a bit of background on what we're doing.

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Ithaka Releases NEH-Funded Report: "Supporting the Changing Research Practices of Historians"

Yesterday, Ithaka S&R released a new report, "Supporting the Changing Research Practices of Historians." This report was funded via an NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant, HD-51320-11. As described by Ithaka:

This study, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, uncovers the needs of today’s historians and provides guidance for how research support providers can better serve them. We explore areas such as content discovery, information management, scholarly analysis, collaboration, library use, the writing process, professional interactions, and publication, among others.

 

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.

Posted: August 27, 2012

2012 NEH Digital Humanities Project Directors Meeting – Open to Public

From 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on September 20th during 2012 NEH Office of Digital Humanities Project Directors at the National Endowment for the Humanities, the recent ODH grantees will give the public a sneak preview of 34 ground-breaking projects that apply cutting-edge technology to high quality research in the humanities. Project directors from the Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, the Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants, and the new Digital Humanities Implementation Grants will be discussing their work.

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.

Posted: October 4, 2012

ODH's Brett Bobley at DGI Big Data Conference

On October 11, 2012, ODH's Brett Bobley will be speaking about the Digging into Data Challenge at the DGI Big Data Conference in Washington, DC.