Many sources of DH project funding are available from outside of the university. For information about DH at Berkeley’s grant offerings, please see our programs page.

The Digital Humanities consulting service, offered by Research IT in partnership with the Division of Arts and Humanities, provides consultation for UC Berkeley PIs who are applying for internal or external grant funding. Depending on the needs of the individual project, digital humanities consultants may be able to assist in the following ways:

Undergraduates work in a variety of capacities on campus, such as research assistants and administrative staff. This resource guide discusses hiring undergraduates for paid positions. Please see the end of this guide for information about academic credit or stipend work arrangements. For assistance with recruiting undergraduate research assistants and publicizing job posts, please contact us at digitalhumanities@berkeley.edu

Graduate Student Researchers (GSRs) are an essential component to many collaborative research efforts in digital humanities projects. GSRs may not be assigned teaching, administrative, or general assistance duties. Examples of GSR projects include work in Drupal site-building, web development, programming, building databases, and coordinating undergraduate research assistants. See the official description of the GSR position here.

The DH project directory is a listing of digital humanities work at Berkeley. Project pages are good for raising the visibility of your work and connecting to collaborators, both on- and off-campus. Anyone with a UC Berkeley affiliation can submit a project. After submitting an initial (brief) application for a project page, project owners will be able to edit and update their project information via the DH at Berkeley at website. Projects that are complete or are no longer affiliated with UC Berkeley will be archived at the end of each semester.

Technical sustainability is an important consideration for all DH projects. Project directors should be able to answer the following questions about their project.  These questions might be posed by funding agencies, peer-reviewed journals, or library and IT staff that will eventually be responsible for the project’s maintenance or archiving.  While a PI may not be able to answer all of these questions at the beginning of a project, this is an opportunity to proactively consult with staff and share the responsibility of building and sustaining successful DH projects.

Poster sessions are increasingly common at academic conferences, particularly those with a digital humanities focus. This resource guide provides some tips for how to create a poster, along with some options for printing it.

The Research IT group in the Office of the CIO offers digital humanities consulting at no cost to faculty, students, and staff. Consultants are available to talk with you about any stage or aspect of your project; examples include:

The digital humanities, with their interplay of traditional humanistic inquiry and digital methods, provide rich opportunities for both undergraduates and graduates to develop new skills and engage in meaningful collaboration.

Learning HTML is no longer a requirement for building a website for your project. There are many platforms-- general-purpose platforms and ones tailored to specific kinds of projects-- that allow you to build much more sophisticated project sites than would be possible if you were building from scratch. When choosing a platform for your project website, the major factors to consider include functionality, familiarity, community, support, and cost.