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Last year, about 550 of Willa Cather's letters were made available for the first time in a book, “The Selected Letters of Willa Cather,” co-edited by the CDRH’s Andrew Jewell.

Thanks to a three-year, $271,980 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, many more will be digitized and put online by the end of the decade. Read More at UNL Today.

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Three teams of UNL students were selected to give presentations on their use of digital research techniques at the annual conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations from July 7-12 at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. Three of the nine students are undergraduates; the others are pursuing master’s degrees or doctorates. Read More at UNL Today.

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Supported by research and innovation funding from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at UNL announces the creation of the Digital Scholarship Incubator. The Incubator provides research consultations; project coaching and support; access to resources, including hardware, software, people, and materials; work space; project and professional development funding; and professionalizing opportunities. Incubator participants, who must be graduate students enrolled in a humanities degree program at UNL, will be chosen by competitive application.

The Digital Scholarship Incubator is now accepting applications for its first cohort of student fellows. Incubator fellowships will run from March 1, 2014–December 31, 2014. During the fellowship period, students commit to developing a specific contribution to humanities scholarship that depends on digital methodologies for research and/or publication. Students might use the Incubator to kickstart a new research project or to complete an ongoing project (or stage of an ongoing project). Incubator fellows should plan to work in the Incubator space located in Love Library for a minimum of 3-5 hours per week during the academic year.

Invested in their own scholarship, fellows will also support the research of other Incubator fellows through thoughtful dialogue, critical engagement, and knowledge exchange. In addition, fellows commit to presenting their work to a public audience and to participating in training opportunities.

This year is a pilot year for the Digital Scholarship Incubator. Not only will fellows for 2014 help shape the developing model of the Incubator, fellows’ projects will be important for making the case for future support.

To apply, submit a letter of application and cv to Liz Lorang by noon Monday, February 17, 2014. Your letter of application should include a statement of your work in digital humanities; a description of the research you plan to undertake as an Incubator fellow, including projected outcomes from the fellowship period;  a description of how this digital research/scholarship fits within your larger program of study and supports your professional goals; and a statement of your research/scholarship needs as you currently understand them.

Prospective applicants are encouraged to contact Liz Lorang with any questions.

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We are delighted to announce the debut of Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing, now online at scholarlyediting.org. Published for over 30 years as a print publication titled Documentary Editing, Scholarly Editing continues to publish articles about the theory and practice of editing and reviews of new editions. In addition to this material, Scholarly Editing offers new, innovative content: the journal is among the first—if not the first—to publish peer-reviewed editions of primary source materials of cultural significance. We are pleased not only to present editors with a rigorously peer-reviewed publication platform, but also to share fascinating documents from cultural history with the reading public. All of this material is available freely online and is completely open-access.

Contents for the 2012 Issue

Introduction

• Introduction to the First Issue of Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing by Amanda Gailey (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) and Andrew Jewell (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

Editions

• "The Inscription of Walt Whitman's 'Live Oak, with Moss' Sequence: A Restorative Edition" edited by Steven Olsen-Smith (Boise State University)
• "Selection from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin: A Digital Critical Edition: 'Topsy'" edited by Wesley Raabe (Kent State University) and Les Harrison (Virginia Commonwealth University)
• "'The Firstling/Erstling/He Complex' by Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven" edited by Tanya Clement (University of Texas, Austin) and Gaby Divay (University of Manitoba)

Essays

• "Musical Works, Musical Texts, and Musical Editions: A Brief Overview" by Ronald Broude (The Broude Trust)
• "A 'Succession of Little Occurrences': Scholarly Editing and the Organization of Time in John Tanner’s Narrative" by John Fierst (Central Michigan University)
• "The Common Pot: Editing Native American Materials" by Paul Grant-Costa (Yale University), Tobias Glaza (Yale University), and Michael Sletcher (Yale University)
• "Documentary Editing in the New Scholarly Ecosystem" (Presidential Address, Association for Documentary Editing Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2011) by Susan H. Perdue (University of Virginia)

Reviews

• The Having of Negroes Is Become a Burden: The Quaker Struggle to Free Slaves in Revolutionary North Carolina By Michael J. Crawford. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010. Reviewed by Donna E. Kelly (North Carolina Office of Archives and History)
• Reminiscences & Traditions of Boston. By Hannah Mather Crocker. Edited by Eileen Hunt Botting and Sarah L. Houser. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011. Reviewed by Beverly Wilson Palmer (Pomona College)
• Recent Editions. Compiled by W. Bland Whitley, Reviews Editor (Princeton University)