External Funding
Beyond Princeton, there are many ways to fund a digital humanities project. You might begin with some of the resources listed here.
- NEH Office of Digital Humanities - This office within the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) coordinates the NEH's efforts in the area of digital scholarship. Although all NEH granting programs will fund work with a digital component ( e.g., fellowships and collaborative grants), the Office of Digital Humanities runs several specific funding programs for digital work. See also the library of all NEH funded digital humanities projects .
- ACLS Digital Extension Grants
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - Program on Digital Information Technology - This program has primarily encouraged digitizing material in the public domain; assuring public archiving, preservation and open access of this material; and fostering its availability to people everywhere through such technologies as books on demand.
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - Program on Scholarly Communications and Information Technology - The Foundation’s grant-making in scholarly communications has three main objectives: (1) to support libraries and archives in their efforts to preserve and provide access to materials of broad cultural and scholarly significance; (2) to assist scholars in the development of specialized resources that promise to open or advance fields of study in the humanities and humanistic social sciences; and (3) to strengthen the publication of humanistic scholarship and its dissemination to the widest possible audience.
- Council on Library and Information Resources - An independent, non-profit organization that forges strategies to enhance research, teaching, and learning environments in collaboration with libraries, cultural institutions, and communities of higher learning. Its goals are to foster new approaches to the management of digital and nondigital information resources so that they will be available in the future, for example, through its Mellon-funded program to Catalog Hidden Special Collections and Archives .
- The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) - Visiting Fellowships - Visiting Fellowships at IATH can take a variety of forms: a month-long residency in Charlottesville, a year-long networked editing project, an international conference to discuss metadata standards, and so forth. These Fellowships are awarded on an ad hoc basis, and there is no fixed publication deadline. While IATH cannot provide funding to Visiting Fellows, IATH staff will provide advice and guidance to help applicants secure appropriate funding.