centerNet

Matthew Kirschenbaum

an international network of digital humanities centers formed for cooperative and collaborative action that will benefit digital humanities and allied fields in general, and centers as humanities cyberinfrastructure in particular

centerNet is a volunteer organization, in which individuals contribute time and energy to help each other find opportunities and collaborators, share tools and resources, and strengthen the position of centers in their own institutions as well as advancing digital humanities generally.

centerNet is an international network of digital humanities centers formed for cooperative and collaborative action that will benefit digital humanities and allied fields in general, and centers as humanities cyberinfrastructure in particular. It developed from a meeting hosted by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the University of Maryland, College Park, April 12-13, 2007 in Washington, D.C., and is a response to the American Council of Learned Societies report on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences, published in 2006.  Since its inception in April, centerNet has added over a hundred members worldwide. A start up committee, elected at the NEH meeting and consisting of Julia Flanders, Neil Fraistat, Mark Kornbluh, Matt Kirschenbaum, and John Unsworth, is currently in the process of adding international members to its ranks.

Some early initiatives include

• an already established taxonomy of centers
• an already established electronic discussion list
• exchanging information about tools development, best practices, organizational strategies, standards efforts, and new digital collections, through the development of a digital humanities portal
• workshops and training opportunities for faculty, staff, and students
• developing collaborative teams that are, in effect, pre-positioned to apply for predictable multi-investigator, multi-disciplinary, multi-national funding opportunities, beginning with an upcoming RFP that invites applications for supercomputing in the humanities

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