By Brett Bobley on 10/14/2009 9:20 AM

Ithaka has just released "Sustainability at a Glance" -- three new briefing papers on the topic of the sustainability of online educational resources.  Each briefing paper is written for a different audience:  One for curators, archivists and librarians; one for university librarians; and one for digital project managers.   These three briefing papers are a follow-on from Ithaka's earlier Case Studies in Sustainability, funded in part by the NEH.   This sustainability work is of particular importance to digital humanities projects, addressing the critical question "how do you sustain a digital humanities resource once the grant runs out?"   Please spread the word and, as always, do get in touch...

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By Jason Rhody on 9/16/2009 2:50 PM

I'm very happy to say that the NEH has just announced 3 new awards from our JISC/NEH Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration grant program.  This program is jointly funded by the NEH and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), a joint committee of the U.K. further and higher education funding bodies. Within the NEH, the program is jointly administered by both the Office of Digital Humanities and the Division of Preservation and Access.  For more information, please consult today's press release.  Congratulations to the three awardees:   American Museum of Natural History -- New York, NY Digitizing Darwin's Library David Kohn, Project Director Outright: $119,999 To support: The digital reconstruction of Charles Darwin's working library as it stood at the end of his life, to include the presentation of the complex array of annotations...

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By Brett Bobley on 9/8/2009 10:42 AM

With funding from the NEH program Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, the Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics at UCLA is hosting a summer institute entitled "Networks and Network Analysis for the Humanities."  The institute will be held next summer, from August 15 - 27, 2010. 

The institute will focus on the study of large corpora to see how complex networks enable ideas, language, and texts to move across time and space.  As the organizer's note, "In recent years, attention has been drawn in both the academic and popular press to the ubiquity of networks in everyday life, from communications networks to investment networks to power transmission networks to social networks. As a result of this increasing awareness, the study of the different types of networks that link us together, and the analysis of the structure of those networks has risen to greater and greater prominence not only in the mathematical and social sciences but also in the Humanities. The institute,...

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