Humanities

NERCOMP's upcoming workshop: "Digital Scholarship in the Humanities and Beyond"

Posted January 6th, 2010 by lisagatesphd@gm...
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Registration is now open for NERCOMP's February 1st workshop: "Digital Scholarship in the Humanities and Beyond." For a full schedule and registration information, please go to: http://www.nercomp.org/events/event_single.aspx?id=5932

Publication Prize for Notable Work in the Digital Humanities

Posted December 16th, 2009 by lisagatesphd@gm...
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In conjunction with the launch of the UM Series in Digital Humanities, the University of Michigan and the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC) announce the UM Press/HASTAC Digital Humanities Publication Prize. The prize will be awarded for an innovative and important project that displays a critical and rigorous engagement in the field of Digital Humanities.

NEH Launches New Online Database

Posted September 29th, 2009 by lisagatesphd@gm...
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The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) unveiled a new Funded Projects Query Form that allows visitors to search online for information on all projects funded by NEH since 1980. The form is accessible from the NEH homepage or directly at https://securegrants.neh.gov/publicquery/main.aspx.

Join the HASTAC Discussion Forum on Mapping the Digital Humanities

Posted April 15th, 2009 by lisagatesphd@gm...
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Join the HASTAC Scholars for a discussion on: Mapping the Digital Humanities, A HASTAC Scholars Discussion Forum, open now at http://www.hastac.org/scholars/forums/04-06-09Mapping-the-Digital-Humanities

NERCOMP Review: Supporting Digital Humanities Research

Posted April 11th, 2008 by Gail Matthews-DeNatale, Simmons College
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Gail Matthews-DeNatale blogs the digital humanities research (DHR) session at the  2008 NERCOMP Conference. Project leaders from Brown, the University of Vermont and Wheaton talk about DHR and student and faculty engagement, how to achieve sustainability and scale, and perhaps most important: how to get these fascinating projects done in the first place. 

Cyberinfrastructure For Us All: An Introduction to Cyberinfrastructure and the Liberal Arts

Posted December 16th, 2007 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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Made possible by dramatic advances in networking technologies, cyberinfrastructure promises to combine new computing capabilities, massive data resources and distributed human expertise to enable qualitatively different creative product from new generations of "knowledge environments." Introducing this timely collection of observations on how this will affect liberal arts disciplines and institutions, David Green reviews the distance we've come in the last 15 years and identifies the main themes of the essays, interviews and reviews that follow.

The (Uncommon) Challenge of the Cultural Commonwealth

Posted December 16th, 2007 by Gary Wells, Ithaca College
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In reviewing Our Cultural Commonwealth, the report on cyberinfrastructure and the humanities commissioned by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), Gary Wells notes "both the allure and anxiety of radical and disruptive change," and wonders if the academy and the broader public will be up to the cultural and financial challenges.

Beyond the ACLS Report: An interview with John Unsworth

Posted December 16th, 2007 by Kevin Guthrie, Ithaka
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John Unsworth chaired the ACLS Commission that authored Our Cultural Commonwealth. In a conversation with Kevin Guthrie, he offers his own well-developed definition of cyberinfrastructure, talks about why and how the needs of the humanities should be considered separately, and explains how the report's framework has been useful already in developing new implementation strategies.
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