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This article on the National Endowment for the Humanities website contains information on a project directors meeting for the Digital Humanities department that was open to the public. The meeting took place in Washington, D.C. on September 20th, and it included multiple aspects such as lightning-talks and roundtable discussions with librarians, researchers, and funding organizations.

This information page on the NEH website is meant to explain the purpose of the Office of Digital Humanities within the National Endowment for the Humanities. It explains the impact that digital technology has had on how scholars do their work and explains that the ODH is meant to "support projects that employ digital technology to improve humanities research." This is done through government grants to those projects that the office sees as most deserving of aid in improving their work. The ODH also collaborates with the scholars and librarians in the DH field through conferences and workshops.

The NEH Office of Digital Humanities joined together with the Museum of the City of New York in October to put on a panel presentation. This presentation was over the museum's effort to create a massive collection of digitized photographs. The presentation also covered how using technology can help cultural heritage organizations to enrich an improve access to collections of cultural heritage items.

The NEH's Office of Digital Humanities announces 5 institutes that will receive government grants to further their research. Included are the University of Texas at Austin's HiPSTAS, the University of Maryland, College Park's Digital Humanities Data Curation, George Mason University's Another Week | Another Tool - A Digital Humanities Barnraising, Folger Shakespeare Library's Folger Shakespeare Library Summer Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities: "Early Modern Digital Agendas," and Arkansas State University's Humanities Heritage 3D Visualization: Theory and Practice.

This link, rather than an actual article, is an entry for the grant application process for the Digital Humanities, closing on Jan. 23, 2013. Although it lacks any actual discussion of its own on the Digital Humanities, it provides a link to its own entry on the NEH website which has a collection of projects which have applied for grants, such as WordSeer. The grant requires its applicants to be nonprofits or education institutions, meaning its list of applicants may provide insight into modern innovations in the Digital Humanities with regards to education.

Digital humanities has gained popularity this year especially despite recent cuts to the program at certain universities. This distilling of information relies heavily on technology. At a recent NEH symposium, professors discussed projects they were having their students do. These involved heavy research on a subject and performances demonstrating the accumulated knowledge. Students learn through "living out" the roles others played in history. Some try to create visual representations of data. These projects can lead to cross referencing data and an overall deepening of research and information study. The humanities strives to make information widely available and open the scholarly world to a wide range of people.

The 126th annual American Historical Association meeting held in Chicago was one of the largest meetings ever. This year, the NEH Office of Digital Humanities sent a representative to the meeting to discuss the relevance of Digital Humanities in the field of history.

This 2010 article provides some insight into the grant proposal process for the Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants, provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities. George Williams describes the process of grant proposals as "lightning rounds" in which the project director is allowed only two minutes and three slides for their presentation. 46 projects were presented, and Williams provides a rough categorization for the projects, such as mapping or publishing projects, and provides a list of examples for each category.