Open Humanities Awards – Joined Up Early Modern Diplomacy Project Update 1

*This is the first in a series of 6 posts from Dr Robyn Adams, one the recipients of the [DM2E Open Humanities Awards](http://openhumanitiesawards.org).* [This project](http://www.livesandletters.ac.uk/bodley/bodley.html) focuses on the people and places mentioned in the bundle of the c.1000 letters which survives from the embassy of Thomas Bodley to the Low Countries in the 1580s and […]

DM2E All-WP Meeting in London

Between the 11th-12th June the DM2E Consortium and associated Europeana projects gathered at Kings College London for 2 days in order to discuss the progress made on the project so far and strategize for the next six months. Key topics addressed were the Wittgenstein Incubator an experiment with scholars from Bergen University who will be […]

Open Humanities Award Winners Announced

Earlier this year we put out a call to humanities academics and technologists to see if they could come up with innovative ideas for small technology projects that would further humanities research by using **open content**, **open data** and/or **open source**. We’re very pleased to announce that the winners are **Dr Bernhard Haslhofer (University of Vienna)** […]

Pundit Hackday Report, Pisa

**On the 3rd May 2013 the team that has been leading the development work on DM2E’s flagship Digital Humanities tool, [Pundit](http://thepund.it), got together with other developers and humanities researchers to brainstorm and implement ways of improving Pundit.** On the day groups were divided up to work on particular challenges and tasks. ###Group 1: Improving the […]

Announcing the Open Humanities Awards

We are excited to announce the first ever Open Humanities Awards. The are **€15,000** worth of prizes on offer for 3-5 projects that use **open content**, **open data** or **open source tools** to further humanities teaching and research. Whether you’re interested in patterns of allusion in Aristotle, networks of correspondence in the Jewish Enlightenment or digitising […]

Third Digital Humanities Advisory Board Meeting

On Monday the Digital Humanities Advisory Board, responsible for steering the research direction of the project and checking that the technical development on the project responds to the needs of scholars, met in Humboldt University Department for Library Sciences and Information Science. Comments were taken on the current draft of the co-authored paper on the […]

DM2E Open Humanities Hack

**Where?**: Guys Campus, Hodgkin Building, London, SE1 1UL **When?**: 21st-22md November — The Open Humanities Hack was the first Digital Humanities hack organised jointly by the the [Digitised Manuscripts to Europeana (DM2E)](https://dm2e.eu), [DARIAH](http://dariah.eu), the [Open Knowledge Foundation](https://okfn.org) and [Kings College London Department of Digital Humanities](http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/index.aspx), . A group of 15 people gathered in the grand […]

Beyond Infrastructure: Further Modelling the Scholarly Research and Collaboration Domain

Earlier this week Professor Stefan Gradmann presented the collaborative paper that he is authoring with the DM2E Digital Humanities Advisory Board entitled “Beyond Infrastructure” at the [Leipzig eHumanities Seminar Series](http://www.e-humanities.net/events/2012-ehum-seminar-call.html). Beyond Infrastructure – Stefan Gradmann (Leipzig Digital Humanities Seminar, 7th November 2012) from DM2E

DM2E at the Minerva Conference on Digital Heritage in Jerusalem

We are pleased to announce that the DM2E project is a partner in the [Minerva Digital Heritage conference](http://www.digital-heritage.org.il/index.html) in Israel taking place from 13th-14th in Jerusalem. The programme has now been published [here](http://www.digital-heritage.org.il/Program2012.html) and includes presentations from the [National Library of Israel](http://web.nli.org.il/sites/nli/english/Pages/default.aspx), the [AGORA project](http://www.project-agora.eu/), [Judaica Europeana](http://www.judaica-europeana.eu/) and a hands-on workshop for using [Pundit](http://thepund.it/) and […]

Pundit and Korbo at the Open Knowledge Festival 2012

Last week the [Open Knowledge Festival](http://okfestival.org/) took place in Helsinki. Over 1000 participants from the world over took part in a week of workshops, hackdays and keynote addresses on all aspects of the open knowledge movement. One of the major topic streams at the Festival was the [Open Cultural Heritage](http://okfestival.org/open-cultural-heritage/) stream that consisted of three […]