X-CGP-ClamAV-Result: CLEAN X-VirusScanner: Niversoft's CGPClamav Helper v1.23.2 (ClamAV engine v0.103.2) Return-Path: Sender: To: CNI-ANNOUNCE Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2021 10:03:01 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [73.198.39.27] (account clifford@cni.org HELO [192.168.1.36]) by cni.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 6.2.7) with ESMTPSA id 38768380 for cni-announce@cni.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2021 21:54:25 -0500 X-Original-Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 21:54:25 -0500 From: Cliff Lynch X-Original-To: cni-announce@cni.org X-Original-Message-ID: <20211216215425657495.70f29367@cni.org> Subject: New ACLS Commission on Future of DIgital Humanites MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: GyazMail version 1.6.5 My apologies for being late in sharing this important development; I've been immersed in the December CNI virtual and in person meetings. The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has recently announced that it is launching a commission on the future of digital work in the humanities, building on the 2005-2006 work of an earlier commission chaired by John Unsworth (currently of the University of Virginia) that produced the report "Our Cultural Commonwealth" , see https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/189 The new commission, " Fostering and Sustaining Diverse Digital Scholarship", which is being funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, is described here. It has a stellar composition, which includes many members of the CNI community, and has important continuity with its predecessor commission. https://www.acls.org/digital-commission-sustaining-diverse-scholarship/ I hope to incorporate reports on this vital work in upcoming CNI events. Clifford Lynch Director, CNi