Digital Humanities Centers: Models, Missions, and Challenges   Mark Kornbluh Director of MATRIX Michigan State University Katherine L. Walter Professor and Chair of Digital Initiatives and Special Collections Director, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) University of Nebraska at Lincoln Worthy Martin Associate Chair, Department of Computer Science Technical Director, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities University of Virginia   The recent American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) report on Cyberinfrastructure for the humanities and social sciences, Our Cultural Commonwealth, highlighted the importance of digital humanities centers as central building blocks for scholarship in the 21st century. The early pioneering digital humanities centers vary greatly in mission and location within universities. Some are in libraries, others are tied to departments, and others are fundamentally interdisciplinary. At some schools, existing humanities centers have begun to transform themselves for the digital age. This breakout session will look at the various models and divergent missions of digital humanities centers and explore the institutional and intellectual challenges involved in developing and sustaining such centers.   http://www.acls.org/programs/Default.aspx?id=644&linkidentifier=id&itemid=644 http://matrix.msu.edu/ http://cdrh.unl.edu/ http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/ Spring 2008 Meeting Home Page     Spring 2008 Project Briefings     Spring 2008 Schedule