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Humanities and Technology Unite!

Program officer Perry Collins will participate in a panel presentation at the Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) on Tuesday, October 2nd, at 6pm.

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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.

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Media Systems Workshop at UC Santa Cruz

A workshop co-sponsored by NSF, NEH, NEA, and Microsoft. How cool is that? (Well, as a funder, I find it really cool.)

Next week, I'll be attending the Media Systems workshop along with ODH's own Jason Rhody. The workshop was organized by Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas, Chaim Gingold and other folks at the Center for Games and Playable Media in collaboration with the Institute for Humanities Research at UCSC.

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Shared Horizons: Data, Biomedicine, and the Digital Humanities

I’m very excited to see the announcement go out today for the April, 2013 symposium “Shared Horizons: Data, Biomedicine, and the Digital Humanities.” This symposium, I hope, will make some truly new and valuable connections between the digital humanities and bioinformatics communities.  I’d like to share a bit of background on how the workshop came about.

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Scripto Transcription Tool Now Available

Back in September, ODH profiled Scripto, a “free, open source tool enabling community transcriptions of document and multimedia files” that was funded through a Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant. Today is Scripto’s official launch day...

Announcing 7 Digital Humanities Implementation Grant Awards (July 2012)

The Office of Digital Humanities is happy to announce 7 awards from our inaugural Digital Humanities Implementation Grant program from our January 2012 deadline. These awards are part of a larger slate of 244 grants just announced by the NEH.

Congratulations to all the awardees for their terrific projects!

Announcing 5 New Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities (July 2012)

The Office of Digital Humanities is happy to announce five new awards from our Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities program from our March 2012 deadline.

Grant Opportunity: NEH/DFG Bilateral Digital Humanities Program

The National Endowment for the Humanities continues its cooperation with the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V., DFG) by offering another round of funding for the NEH/DFG Bilateral Digital Humanities Program.

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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: July 31, 2012

Scripto Transcription Tool Now Available

Back in September, ODH profiled Scripto, a “free, open source tool enabling community transcriptions of document and multimedia files” that was funded through a Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant. Today is Scripto’s official launch day...

Posted: July 26, 2012

Announcing 7 Digital Humanities Implementation Grant Awards (July 2012)

The Office of Digital Humanities is happy to announce 7 awards from our inaugural Digital Humanities Implementation Grant program from our January 2012 deadline. These awards are part of a larger slate of 244 grants just announced by the NEH.

Congratulations to all the awardees for their terrific projects!

Posted: July 26, 2012

Announcing 5 New Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities (July 2012)

The Office of Digital Humanities is happy to announce five new awards from our Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities program from our March 2012 deadline.

Posted: July 11, 2012

Grant Opportunity: NEH/DFG Bilateral Digital Humanities Program

The National Endowment for the Humanities continues its cooperation with the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V., DFG) by offering another round of funding for the NEH/DFG Bilateral Digital Humanities Program.

Posted: June 12, 2012

CLIR Releases Report About Digging into Data Challenge

 

One Culture: Computationally Intensive Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences

A Report on the Experiences of First Respondents to the Digging Into Data Challenge  

June 12, 2012. Today, at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in Washington, DC, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) released One Culture: Computationally Intensive Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. This report culminates two years of work by CLIR staff involving extensive interviews and site visits with scholars engaged in international research collaborations involving computational analysis of large data corpora. These scholars were the first recipients of grants through the Digging into Data program, led by the NEH, who partnered with JISC in the UK, SSHRC in Canada, and the NSF to fund the first eight initiatives. The report introduces the eight projects and discusses the importance of these cases as models for the future of research in the academy.  

To read the full report, along with supplementary case studies of each project, please visit the CLIR website.    
Posted: June 8, 2012

Start-Up Grant Program Encouraging Research that Studies Digital Culture

 

I’m pleased to say that we’ve just posted the new guidelines for our Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program. The deadline this year is September 25, 2012. Each year, we make small changes to our grant guidelines based on feedback and discussions with the field. This year, in the section where we list the types of things the program funds, we added a new bullet:

  • scholarship that focuses on the history, criticism, and philosophy of digital culture and its impact on society;
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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. 

Posted: September 27, 2012

Humanities and Technology Unite!

Program officer Perry Collins will participate in a panel presentation at the Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) on Tuesday, October 2nd, at 6pm.

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.

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