NEH Funding and Digital/Networked Scholarship (2015)
Featuring Vika Zafrin, Institutional Repository Librarian
The past several decades have seen fundamental developments in humanities and social science scholarship, many of them involving computation and networked communication. Digital humanities has taken root as an area of research overlaying most humanities fields and residing partly at their intersections. Digital research methods and online scholarly communication have become an essential part of humanities research—and one that is increasingly funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. On March 19, 2015, Vika Zafrin, BU’s Institutional Repository Librarian and a digital humanist by training, offered a brief overview of digital humanities and networked scholarship and how the last few years’ grants from the NEH Office of Digital Humanities have changed focus over time and discussed trends in the federal funding of digital humanities projects and the role of open access in federal funding of the humanities. Read the transcript here.