News from the Office of the Digital Humanities (US)

1) Guidelines for Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities

Would your institution like to host a summer training institute or seminar on a topic in the digital humanities? If you have some local expertise, why not share with your colleagues from around the country? Deadline for this program is February 18^th and the guidelines are available now. In our Library of Funded Projects, you can find a description of the winning IATDH grants from last year. Check out our website for more information on the IATDH program. [Read More on the ODH Website].

2) Announcing Next Round of JISC/NEH Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration Grants

Last year, we had a wildly successful grant program with our colleagues at JISC in the UK. So guess what? We’re doing it again! But this time, bigger and better than before! (I hope this doesn’t sounds like I’m advertising a cleaning product or something). Seriously, though, if you are keen to work with colleagues in the UK on a digital humanities project, please read more about this program on our website. The deadline will be in March, 2009. [Read More on the ODH Website]

3) Papers from NEH/CLIR Symposium Now Available

On September 15th, the NEH and CLIR (Council on Library and Information Resources) co-hosted a symposium entitled “Promoting Digital Scholarship: Formulating Research Challenges in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Computation.”  At the symposium, we invited a group of some thirty leading scholars to brainstorm about research challenges for the digital humanities. To read the wonderful papers that came out of this symposium, please read more on our website. [Read More on the ODH Website]

4) Announcement of NEH/DOE Supercomputing Grants!

As many of you know, we’ve been working with the Department of Energy to explore how high performance computing (supercomputing) can be used for humanities research. I’m happy to say that we just announced the three winning projects from our joint NEH/DOE program! I made the announcement last month in front of an enthusiastic crowd at the Supercomputing 2008 conference in Austin, TX. To read about the winners, please check out our website. [Read More on the ODH Website]

5) Wanted: Workshop Participants

Two NEH-funded workshops are seeking participants. They are:

1) The University of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab is hosting a conference on “Visualizing the Past: Tools and Techniques for Understanding Historical Processes.”

2) The Institute for the Future of the Book is holding three brainstorming meetings–in history, music, and media studies.

For more details, check out our website. [Read More on the ODH Website]