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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 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 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.

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.