Daniel,
Hope you are doing well. I thank you for your email to the community and would like to point to two issues:
  1. The use of the word "vague" to describe this kind of activities is very justified. We'll have always a difficulty to describe formally "disciplines" which are interdisciplinary by nature. This becomes more complicated (on the representation level) when "Digital" is an active component in the blend! I think this "permanent tension" in formulating things is a dynamic element and is a promoter of innovation, not only for emergent disciplines, but also for those which are "well established" and reconciled with the history and "theoretically" with the future.
  2. The second point that I want to mention has a more tangible aspect. Our digital Humanities Unit at the university of Balamand-Lebanon works on projects related to what are mentioning in your email. Our research interests are mainly in what you called "Digital Cultural Heritage". We are running projects dealing with scholarly editing of ancient and medieval Arabic text (digital corpora), Digital Philology, recently we launched a project on urban history using GIS technologies and data visualization...
Based on this two points, I would like, with pleasure, to collaborate with you to come up with a research project that we can find for it the appropriate funding. Please know, that I have in my budget an amount that we can use it as contribution in funding a collaborative research project in DH field.
Nice day,
Elie 

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Daniel O'Donnell <daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca> wrote:
Hi all,

I'm in the process of putting together a 1 year $20k internal grant focussing on Digital Cultural Heritage. The focus of the grant is international research and I'd like to use it to further some aspects of the work we've been doing at GO::DH.

My ideas about what I mean by Digital Cultural Heritage are a bit vague, I confess, but I mean something like the intersection of museological and philological approaches to texts and objects, scholarship of primary sources with some public outreach and education component, or the extension of textual critical type approaches to things to cover non-textual as well as textual objects.

Who else is working on these kinds of things? I'd be very interested in seeing if we could use the grant to develop an interesting partnership for future funding. I'm especially interested in projects you might know of that are interested in this kind of thing outside of Europe and Canada/U.S., but not adverse to working with groups in either of those places. Anybody know of anything related in Africa, Middle East, or Latin America/Caribbean?

Related to this is a larger external grant we are working on this year that overlaps a little with the topic.

My deadline is the end of the month, so the sooner I know of potential partners the better. Let me know if this is something that interests you.

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Daniel Paul O'Donnell
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University of Lethbridge
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