NEH: Grants for Institutes Advancing Topics in the Digital Humanities

Opportunity ID: 43489

General Information

Document Type: Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number: 20090218-HT
Funding Opportunity Title: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities
Opportunity Category: Discretionary
Opportunity Category Explanation:
Funding Instrument Type: Grant
Category of Funding Activity: Humanities
Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards:
Assistance Listings: 45.169 — Promotion of the Humanities_Digital Humanities Initiative
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: No
Version: Synopsis 1
Posted Date: Dec 02, 2008
Last Updated Date:
Original Closing Date for Applications: Feb 18, 2009
Current Closing Date for Applications: Feb 18, 2009
Archive Date: Mar 20, 2009
Estimated Total Program Funding:
Award Ceiling: $250,000
Award Floor: $0

Eligibility

Eligible Applicants: Private institutions of higher education
Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
City or township governments
State governments
Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
Additional Information on Eligibility:

Additional Information

Agency Name: National Endowment for the Humanities
Description: These NEH grants support national or regional (multi‑state) training programs for scholars and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities. Through these programs, NEH seeks to increase the number of humanities scholars using digital technology in their research and broadly disseminate knowledge about advanced technology tools and methodologies relevant to the humanities. The projects may be a single opportunity or offered multiple times to different audiences, although the duration of a program should allow for full and thorough treatment of the topic. Today, complex data—its form, manipulation, and interpretation—are as important to humanities study as more traditional research materials. Datasets, for example, may represent digitized historical records, high-quality image data, or even multimedia collections, all of which are increasing in number due to the availability and affordability of mass data storage devices and international initiatives to create digital content. Moreover, extensive networking capabilities, sophisticated middleware applications, and new collaboration platforms are simultaneously providing and improving interactive access to and analysis of these data as well as a multitude of other resources. The goals of the Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities program are
to bring together humanities scholars and digital technology specialists from different disciplines to share ideas and methods that advance humanities research and teaching through the use of digital technologies;
to reflect on, interpret, and analyze new digital media, multimedia, and text-based computing technologies and integrate these into humanities scholarship;
to teach current and future generations of humanities scholars to design, develop, and use cyber-based tools and environments for scholarship;
to devise new and creative uses for technology that offer valuable models that can be applied specifically to research in the humanities.
NEH strongly encourages applicants to develop proposals for multidisciplinary teams of collaborators that will offer the necessary range of intellectual, technical, and practical expertise. This program is designed to bring together humanities scholars, advanced graduate students, computer scientists, and others to learn new tools, approaches, and technologies and to foster relationships for future collaborations in the humanities. Partners and collaborators may be drawn from the private and public sectors and may include appropriate specialists from within and outside the United States.
Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities may be hosted by colleges, universities, learned societies, centers for advanced study, libraries or other repositories, and cultural or professional organizations. The host site(s) must be appropriate for the project, providing facilities for scholarship and collegial interaction. Projects that will be held more than once and at different locations are permissible.
Link to Additional Information: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/IATDH.html
Grantor Contact Information: If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:

Office of Digital Humanities

National Endowment for the Humanities

Room 402

1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20506
Email:odh@neh.gov

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Packages

Agency Contact Information: Office of Digital Humanities
National Endowment for the Humanities
Room 402
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20506
Email: odh@neh.gov
Who Can Apply: Organization Applicants

Assistance Listing Number Competition ID Competition Title Opportunity Package ID Opening Date Closing Date Actions
45.169 PKG00008920 Dec 02, 2008 Feb 18, 2009 View

Package 1

Mandatory forms

43489 SF424_Short-1.0.pdf

43489 SupplementaryCoverSheetforNEHGrantPrograms-1.0.pdf

43489 Attachments-1.0.pdf


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