Richard Pryor’s Peoria, a companion website to Scott Saul’s Becoming Richard Pryor (HarperCollins, 2014), has been named one of Slate’s most compelling digital history exhibits and archives for 2014.
Quinn Dombrowski, the Digital Humanities Coordinator in Research IT at UC Berkeley, has been elected to the Executive Council of the Association for Computers in the Humanities (ACH), the US-based professional organization for digital humanities. 
Deborah Anderson, a researcher in UC Berkeley’s Linguistics department and director of the Script Encoding Initiative, has been awarded a Preservation and Access Research and Development grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
On November 12 - 13, I had the opportunity to represent DiRT Directory at a workshop on user interface and software sustainability in the humanities and social sciences, hosted by the Center for e-Research (CeRch) at the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London.
Text analysis is just one of a variety of methods at the disposal of digital humanists. With the application of computational methods, scholars can perform "distant reading" (Franco Moretti) or "macroanalysis" (Matthew Jockers) of large collections of text, such as a corpus of 2,958 19th century British novels. Robert K.