NEH/DFG Bilateral Digital Humanities Program

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in the United States and the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V., 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 funding 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 significant and of major current interest, for use in humanities research; ¿ developing and implementing generic tools, methods, and techniques for accessing and processing digital resources relevant to humanities research; ¿ creating new digital modes of scholarly communication and publishing that facilitate international cooperation and dissemination of humanities scholarship; and ¿ developing models for effectively managing digital data generated in humanities research projects (for example, texts, audio files, photographs, 3D objects) and exemplifying those models in case studies.