What does a successful DH research proposal look like? Is there a secret or magic formula to getting a grant?
Lisa Spiro, executive director of Digital Scholarship Services, Rice University, has offered some suggestions on writing a successful grant proposal:
- Read the guidelines
- Make an argument for funding your proposal
- Talk to the Program Officers
- Show that you have technical knowledge
- Ask to see reviewers’ comments
- Consider serving on a grant review panel
Writing a compelling narrative is essential and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has made available sample application narratives for Level I to Level III successful grant proposals.
- The potential of digital archaeology (Level I)
- Preserving cultural software objects and their development histories (Level I)
- The development of digital documentary editing platforms (Level I)
- Circulating American magazines (Level II)
- Cuneiform digital library initiative framework update (Level II)
- Image analysis for archival discovery (Level II)
- Ensuring access to endangered and inaccessible manuscripts (Level III)
- Data-driven tools for analysing relationships across time (Level III)
