Category: Funding & Opportunities

Visiting fellowships in Computational Humanities, based at the eHumanities Group, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) (http://ehumanities.nl). Applications for 2013 now open! These visiting fellowships are intended to enable scholars working in computational humanities to conduct research and to participate in the academic life of the eHumanities Group of the KNAW. Visiting fellowships […]

Gates Foundation Offers Grants for MOOC’s in Introductory Classes – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation wants to find out whether the massive open online courses that have proved so popular in advanced and often highly technical fields offer the same promise for remedial and introductory courses. […]

Over the last few months a team of librarians, archivists, curators, engineers and other technologists in the NDSA have been working to draft a simple chart to help prioritize digital preservation work. After iteratively developing this document and workshopping it at Digital Preservation 2012 we are excited to publicly share it for comment.

Over the Course of the 2012/13 academic year this AHRC-funded programme is offering postgraduate research students postdoctoral researchers a unique opportunity to develop skills in reinterpreting archival material (Image, Object, Performance and Theatre, Corpora and Film) in the context of digitisation and widening access to such material through strategies of public engagement. Participants will gain […]

ACLS invites applications for the eighth annual competition for the ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships, thanks to the generous assistance of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This program supports digitally based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences. It is hoped that projects of successful applicants will help advance digital humanistic scholarship […]

Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants | National Endowment for the Humanities. Receipt Deadline September 25, 2012 for Projects Beginning May 2013 Brief Summary The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) invites applications to the Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program. This program is designed to encourage innovations in the digital humanities. By awarding relatively small grants to support the planning […]

MOOC MOOC. Welcome to Hybrid Pedagogy’s MOOC MOOC! For those just joining us, the various materials of the course are available here, separated by day. Feel free to jump into previous days to explore what we’ve been up to, but each day is designed to function as its own self-contained experience, so you can also just […]

Library of Congress RFI for Third Party Digitization Initiatives – thirdpartydigRFI – Federal Business Opportunities: Opportunities. Request for Information The Library of Congress (“Library”) seeks public comments on the attached draft request for proposals as well as the attached principles for third-party digitization contracts. This is a Request for Information (“RFI”) pursuant to 48 C.F.R. […]

NITLE Event: Digital Field Scholarship. August 29, 4:00pm – 5:00pm We encourage faculty, instructional technologists, librarians, and others from the NITLE Network who are interested in digital field scholarship, inquiry-guided learning, and undergraduate research in all disciplines to attend this seminar in institutional teams. Individuals are also welcome to participate. (Times EDT) Hosted online via NITLE’s videoconferencing platform

OCLC Research to Host “Wikipedia and Libraries: What’s the Connection?” Webinar on 31 July at 11 a.m. PT / 2 p.m. ET (UTC 18:00) All are welcome to attend this free webinar with OCLC Research Wikipedian in Residence Max Klein to learn what’s happened between Wikipedia and libraries in the past and what it means for the […]