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DevDH.org is pleased to announce that Jennifer Guiliano and Simon Appleford have signed with John Wiley & Sons Limited to publish Getting Started in the Digital Humanities: A How-To Guide for Digital Research. Building on the authors’ combined 10+ years working in digital humanities project development, management, and grant writing, as well as the resources available at DevDH.org, Getting Started in the Digital Humanities will offer three major interventions: 1) it will present the first, full-length guide to developing digital research from inception to fruition that is not tied to any one discrete discipline; 2) it will address the increasing need for training materials for academics, particularly early career humanists, who may be new to digital research; and 3) it evinces the belief that project development and management within the humanities must rely on best practices and standards that address the need to reproduce and track humanistic thought processes. Getting Started in the Digital Humanities is a response to the increasing number of first-time digital humanists who are initiating projects, as well as to the growing mandate from Universities and Colleges to undertake digital humanities-based research and teaching. As such, it will form a critical entry point for faculty members, graduate and undergraduate students, and other professional staff, searching for an overview of the process of actually doing digital humanities throughout the entire lifecycle of a project, from the initial idea stage through evaluation and wrap up. DevDH.org and Getting Started in the Digital Humanities will offer complementary resources to readers. DevDH.org will continue to provide open access to a wide range of teaching materials, including the presentations, podcasts, and exemplar materials that are currently available, and will be regularly updated. Getting Started in the Digital Humanities, meanwhile, will provide an [...]

The authors of DevDH.org will introduce participants to best practices for designing and organizing their first digital humanities project, including how to frame a project appropriately, identify and set attainable goals, build project teams, and find potential tools and resources. Early-career digital humanists are especially encouraged to attend. This seminar is for humanists, librarians, and instructional technologists who are interested in learning best practices for developing their first digital humanities projects. It is especially relevant for early-career digital humanists, including graduate students and junior scholars planning or considering their first digital project. We encourage scholars and others from the NITLE Network interested in collaborative digital projects to attend in teams if possible. Please register online by Tuesday, April 30, 2013. Participation in NITLE Shared Academicsevents is open to all active member institutions of the NITLE Network as a benefit of membership and as space allows. No additional registration fee applies. For more information visit: http://www.nitle.org/live/events/174-developing-digital-humanities-projects

Jennifer Guiliano and Simon Appleford will be co-teaching an Introduction to Grantwriting workshop on at this year's annual Digital Humanities conference in Lincoln, Nebraska. Designed for humanities scholars seeking assistance with their first grant, this workshop introduces participants to best practices in writing and submitting a grant. Participants will be provided with a series of online resources, including presentations, exemplar successful grants, and podcasts to help them complete a first draft of a proposal before they arrive in Lincoln. Those drafts will be circulated to other participants prior to the workshop and will serve as the core basis of our workshop discussions with the anticipation being that each participant will receive clear feedback from other attendees that will aid them in the revision of their proposal. Drafts will be encouraged to emulate the popular National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Start­up Grant competition in order to provide the most flexibility for participants in their digital humanities endeavors. For more information about the conference and to register please visit http://dh2013.unl.edu

Jennifer Guiliano will be teaching "Large Project Planning and Development" at this year's Digital Humanities Summer Institute. The course will explore the fundamentals of project planning and design including, but not limited to: formulating appropriate disciplinary questions for digital humanities research, investigating digital humanities tools and resources, structuring your first project, understanding roles and responsibilities, designing publicity and websites for your project, documenting your project work, writing your first grant proposal, and managing your budget. For more information, please visit http://www.dhsi.org/

DevDH's Jennifer Guiliano will be co-teaching "Large Project Planning, Funding, and Management" with the University of Victoria's Lynne Siemens at this year's European Summer School in Digital Humanities in Leipzig, Germany. The course will explore the fundamentals of project planning and design including, but not limited to: formulating appropriate disciplinary questions for digital humanities research, investigating digital humanities tools and resources, structuring your first project, critical path scheduling, understanding roles and responsibilities, risk management, documenting your project work, writing your first grant proposal, budget setting and controls, building the project team, and selecting and implementing project management tools and software. Participants will get the most of the course if they arrive with at least some sense of a potential digital humanities project that they would like to develop throughout the course. The European Summer School in Digital Humanities will begin on July 22, 2013. For further information, please visit: https://www.prosco.com http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/