Call for participation in an international network of digital
humanities centers
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If you represent something that you would consider a digital humanities
center, anywhere in the world, we are interested in including you in a
developing network of such centers. The purpose of this network is
cooperative and collaborative action that will benefit digital
humanities and allied fields in general, and centers as humanities
cyberinfrastructure in particular. It comes out of a meeting hosted by
the National Endowment for the Humanities and the University of
Maryland, College Park, April 12-13, 2007 in Washington, D.C.,
responding in part to the report of the American Council of Learned
Societies report on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social
Sciences, published in 2006.
We leave the definition of "digital humanities" up to you, but we
intend to be inclusive, and we know that there will be cross-over into
the social sciences, media studies, digital arts, and other related
areas. If you think your center is a digital humanities center, in
whole or in part, then we'd be glad to have you as part of the network.
This might include humanities centers with a strong interest in or
focus on digital platforms. The definition of "center" is only
slightly more prescriptive: a center should be larger than a single
project, and it should have some history or promise of persistence.
Some early initiatives are likely to include
* workshops and training opportunities for faculty, staff, and students
* developing collaborative teams that are, in effect, pre-positioned to
apply for predictable multi-investigator, multi-disciplinary,
multi-national funding opportunities, beginning with an upcoming RFP
that invites applications for supercomputing in the humanities
* exchanging information about tools development, best practices,
organizational strategies, standards efforts, and new digital
collections, through a digital humanities portal
There is no membership fee, and the network is not a constituent of any
other organization, but members should consider contributing some time
or resource to the network.
You may respond to this invitation by sending email to
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please indicate
* the name of your center, your title with respect to it, and the
center's home institution or organization
* the areas or disciplines in which your center works or has worked
* the number of staff employed by your center
We would also appreciate it if you would answer two other questions:
* what might your center be willing and able to contribute to the
network of centers?
* would you be willing to serve in an organizing role with respect to
the network.
Finally, you might want to have a look at the different types of
centers represented at
http://digitalhumanities.pbwiki.com/Centers%20by%20type
and if yours is not there, tell us in what category to list it, and
we'll add it, or if the right category doesn't exist, suggest one.
Thanks very much,
Julia Flanders
Neil Fraistat
Matt Kirschenbaum
Mark Kornbluh
John Unsworth
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Neil Fraistat
Professor of English & Director
Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH)
University of Maryland
301-405-5896 or 301-314-7111 (fax)
http://www.mith.umd.edu/
http://www.rc.umd.edu/nfraistat/home/
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