12 July: fyi -- research funding, Digital Humanities

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The National Endowment for the Humanities continues its cooperation
with the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
e.V., DFG) by offering another round of funding for the NEH/DFG
Bilateral Digital Humanities Program. The revised 2012 guidelines can
be found at
http://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/nehdfg-bilateral-digital-humanities-program
. Please note that the deadline for submission is September 27, 2012
for projects beginning May 2013.

NEH and DFG are working together to offer support for projects that
contribute to developing and implementing digital infrastructures and
services for humanities research. In order to encourage new
approaches and develop innovative methods in any field of the
humanities, these grants provide combined funding ranging from
$100,000 to $350,000 (approximately €75,000 to €265,000) for up to
three years in any of the following areas:

· developing innovative methods—as well as standards and best
practices—for building and merging digital collections that
are important to the American and German scholarly community
for use in research;

· developing and implementing generic tools, methods, and techniques
for accessing and processing digital resources relevant to
humanities research;

· ensuring the completion and long-term sustainability of existing
digital resources (typically in conjunction with a library
or archive);

· creating new digital modes of scholarly communication and publishing
that facilitate international cooperation and dissemination
of humanities scholarship; and

· developing models and case studies for effectively managing digital
data generated in humanities research projects (for example,
texts, audio files, photographs, 3D objects).


Collaboration between U.S. and German partners is a key requirement
for this grant category. Each application must be sponsored by at
least one eligible German individual or institution, and at least one
U.S. institution, and there must be a project director from each
country. The partners will collaborate to write a single application
package, which will be submitted to both NEH and DFG for
consideration.

Program questions from applicants in the United States should be
directed to Jason Rhody in NEH’s Office of Digital Humanities at
jrhody@neh.gov.

Program questions from German applicants should be directed to
Christoph Kümmel at DFG at christoph.kuemmel@dfg.de.

Note that program staff from NEH and DFG will also be available for
grant discussions and consultations at this year’s Digital Humanities
2012 conference in Hamburg.

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