Rise of the Digital NEH (fwd link)

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Rise of the Digital NEH

Inside Higher Ed
--Andy Guess

With more and more humanities scholars embracing scholarship that is either
conducted or published online, funding agencies and a network of “digital
humanities centers” are stepping up to provide money and organizational
structure for what has been a grassroots movement.

Some of the most important leadership in the growing interdisciplinary subfield
is coming from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the largest single
supporter of humanities programs. Last month, the endowment announced that its
two-year Digital Humanities Initiative was being formalized into a permanent
Office of Digital Humanities as it awarded several new Transatlantic
Digitization Collaboration grants (along with the Joint Information Systems
Committee, a British higher education IT promotion organization) to boost
scholarly exchange between American and European researchers.

“Digital technology is bringing the humanities to a vast new audience and
changing the way that humanities scholars perform their work,” said Bruce Cole,
the endowment’s chairman, at the announcement on March 25. “It allows new
questions to be raised and is transforming how we search, research, display,
teach and analyze humanities resources and materials.”

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