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The Office of Digital Humanities (ODH) is an office within the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Our primary mission is to help coordinate the NEH's efforts in the area of digital scholarship. As in the sciences, digital technology has changed the way scholars perform their work. It allows new questions to be raised and has radically changed the ways in which materials can be searched, mined, displayed, taught, and analyzed. Technology has also had an enormous impact on how scholarly materials are preserved and accessed, which brings with it many challenging issues related to sustainability, copyright, and authenticity. The ODH works not only with NEH staff and members of the scholarly community, but also facilitates conversations with other funding bodies both in the United States and abroad so that we can work towards meeting these challenges. 

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Apr 30

Written by: Brett Bobley
4/30/2008 9:14 AM

As many of you know, on April 22, the NEH announced our HHPC (Humanities High Performance Computing) initiative.  So imagine my surprise when I was reading Geoffrey Rockwell's blog post later that same day.  It turns out that on the very day the NEH announced our HHPC initiative, a group of Canadian scholars and scientists were having a two-day workshop on that very subject.  The workshop was called "Digital Humanities and High Performance Computing" and was sponsored by SHARCNET, a high-performance computing network in Canada.  Geoffrey, if you don't know him, is an Associate Professor of Humanities Computing and Multimedia at McMaster University in Canada and one of the people behind the TAPOR text analysis portal.  I sent Geoffrey a note remarking on the coincidence and he said: "It is great timing. I got the e-mail announcement of your initiative on my Blackberry at the final lunch meeting just in time to tell my dean and associate vp research that NEH was doing HHPC."

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Project Bamboo Planning Workshop

May 15 - 17: NEH staff will be attending the Project Bamboo Planning Workshop held at the University of Chicago.

HASTAC Conference

May 22-24: NEH staff will be speaking at the second annual HASTAC conference, TechnoTravels/TeleMobility: HASTAC in Motion at the University of California, Irvine and the University of California, Los Angeles.

THATCamp

May 31-June 1: NEH Staff will be attending THATCamp at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA.

JISC/CNI Meeting: Transforming the User Experience Conference

July 10-11: NEH staff will be attending the JISC/CNI Meeting: Transforming the User Experience Conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

NEH/DOE HHPC Deadline

July 15: Deadline for NEH/DOE Humanities High Performance Computing program.

Preservation & Access HCR Deadline

July 31: Deadline for Preservation & Access Humanities Collections and Resources program.

Colorado Learning and Teaching with Technology Conference

August 12-13: NEH staff will be presenting at the Colorado Learning and Teaching with Technology Conference at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

NEH Fellowships at Digital Humanities Centers
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