UDHIG’s purposes are:
To incubate humanities research projects through:

• Giving faculty members, both individuals and groups, support for writing grant proposals, by researching technologies, providing the information needed to formulate the technical portions, and by contributing a certain degree of programming and designer support to produce demo’s or website mock-ups, enhancing the grant proposal.
• Designing software solutions in such a way that multiple projects can benefit from them. This requires close cooperation with the PI’s of the various ongoing projects.

To foster, support and promote research through:

• Having regular meetings where UCLA faculty, and specialists from other institutions exchange information on ongoing projects and developments, to benefit from a wide range of experiences.
• Keeping abreast with and contributing to the rapid development of digital humanities research and education.
• Creating a platform where new ideas and approaches can be developed and tested.
• Discussing the consequences of newly developed forms of publication for merit reviews and tenure cases and define what constitutes high quality digital humanities research.
• Embarking on any other activities that will stimulate the development of digital humanities at UCLA.