centerNet

This summer centerNet welcomed 13 centers as new members:

• Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE)GCDH – Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities
• South Jersey Center for Digital Humanities @ Stockton College
• The Center for Digital Humanities at the University of South Carolina
• Archaeological Computing Research Group, University of Southampton
• CIRCA – Canadian Institute for Research in Computing and the Arts, University of Alberta
• CCeH – Cologne Center for eHumanities, University of Cologne
• Belgrade Center for Digital Humanities
• Center for Digital Scholarship, Brown University
• Centre national pour la numérisation de sources visuelles, CNRS
• CIHAM (UMR 5648) – Histoire et Archéologie des Mondes Chrétiens et
• Musulmans Médiévaux, Lyons
• Humanities Computing and Media Centre, Victoria, British Columbia
• Virtual World Heritage Laboratory, Charlottesville, Virginia

We now have approximately 240 members from 140 digital humanities centers in 20 countries. You can find a full listing of centers on the centers page.

We are announcing two new members of the NA steering committee. And those are Susan Brown (University of Guelph), who directs the Orlando Project and is Project Leader of the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory, and Bethany Nowviskie (University of Virginia), who directs the Scholar’s Lab at the University of Virginia.

The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) is a joint initiative of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries and the UNL College of Arts & Sciences. The Center advances collaborative, interdisciplinary research by creating unique digital content, develops text analysis and visualization tools for scholars in text analysis and visualization, and encourages the use (and refinement) of international standards.

Some photos from our recent centerNet summit in London are at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/44937957@N05/sets/72157624356244303/

and some general London photos are at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/44937957@N05/sets/72157624356369913/

For information on the London centerNet summit, read Geoffrey Rockwell’s full report.

For a French report on the summit, read the TGE-Adonis blog entry.

For an archive of  the ~300 tweets related to the summit, established by Jason Rhody,  visit the archive of #cnsum tweets.

There will be four sessions related to centerNet during DH 2010: three on Friday, June 9, and a general members meeting on Saturday, June 10:

Friday, June 9

9:00:  “CHAIN: Coalition of Humanities and Arts Infrastructures and Networks,” to be held in Safra Theatre

11:00 “Teaching/Managing” (Findings from the  IMLS Interns grant for DH Centers and ISchools), to be held in S-2.08

2:00 “Understanding the Capacities of Digital Humanities,”  to be held in Safra Theatre

Saturday, June 10

1:00 – 2:00   centerNet General Members, to be held in Safra Theatre

An international summit of digital humanities centers and funders will take place at King’s College London, on July 3-4, immediately preceding the Digital Humanities 2010 conference. Made possible in part by funding from the U.S. National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH), this summit aims to facilitate international collaborations among centers and funders from North America, the United Kingdom and Ireland, Continental Europe, and Asia Pacific.

Discussion at the summit will cover a wide range of topics, including the following:

• Opportunities and mechanisms for collaboration among centers, among funders, and between both groups;
• Articulation of mutual research goals so as to avoid duplication of effort among centers and to best leverage local expertise, content, and support;
• Development of joint policy agendas and successful strategies for pursuing them;
• Methods for optimizing collaborative opportunities between humanities content specialists and the technological community;
• Roles played by centers and funders in international cyberinfrastructure;
• Other issues of mutual concern.

A summary of the proceedings will be delivered at the centerNet General Members meeting on Friday, July 9, 1:00-2:00, during the DH 2010 conference at King’s College London.

You can follow the Summit on Twitter by searching for the hashtag  #cNsum

For information on the London centerNet summit, read Geoffrey Rockwell’s full report.

For an archive of  the ~300 tweets related to the summit, established by Jason Rhody,  visit the archive of #cnsum tweets.

“The Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) and centerNet announce their agreement to pursue joint activities in the digital humanities over the next five years. The focus of this initiative will be the relation of digital technologies to the disciplines in higher education and to the formation of new collaborations and publics.”

Please download the PDF to read the full announcement.

Some changes have been made to the centerNet, including a searchable directory of centers, and a new way to become a member. Take a look around and contact us if you have any questions.

The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities is an applied think tank for the digital humanities, whose mission is to both further the excellence of the extended research community and cultivate its own innovative research agendas. MITH’s research currently clusters around multimodal editions, digital tools, text mining, visualization, cyberinfrastructure, and the creation and preservation of electronic literature, digital games, and virtual worlds.