The Commons is on Facebook -- just search for the unimaginative but effective phrase "Digital Humanities Commons at Texas A&M" and you'll find us. So please visit us there, too, post a topic, and join the discussion.

The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research awards Stipendiary Fellowships of $1500 to tenured and tenure-track faculty pursuing research projects in Digital Humanities. The deadline to apply is March 2. Apply online at http://glasscock.tamu.edu/Funding_Opportunities/faculty_funding.html

If you would like to chat about a potential project, please contact me or James Smith (jgsmith at tamu dot edu).

My system administration work for the last year has focused on doing what I can to eliminate as many of the non-humanities concerns as possible from the front end of a digital humanities project. We can worry about getting a large server when the project requires more CPU or memory or disk than we can offer. If we need to have a dedicated server for a project, then there are enough people who find that project useful that they generate that much traffic. At that point, the project should be important enough to garner grants or other financial support.

The Mellon Seminar in Digital Humanities at UCLA has published a "Digital Humanities Manifesto": http://dev.cdh.ucla.edu/digitalhumanities/2008/12/15/digital-humanities-...

Some of the more interesting propositions:

"9. Large-scale complexity: need for teamwork as new model for the production and reproduction of humanistic knowledge. Teams sometimes fail because they take risks. This is the heart of digital humanities: Risk-taking, collaboration, and experimentation."

With the new semester, we have a new website for the Digital Humanities Commons. The DH village green. The area where we can all come together on common ground that belongs to no one and everyone. With that in mind, we've moved almost all of the old content to this new site and added a few capabilities to support the Commons.