Tools for Today International Database of Digital Humanities Projects Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials Through its working groups, NINCH has responded to calls from the field for particular tools to assist practitioners in their current work. International Database of Digital Humanities Projects The database is a response to the call for peer-reviewed information on humanities computing projects that would focus as much on research, methodology and software as on "product." That is, the database is not primarily a listing of all available resources for the humanist (as is, for example, the Humbul Humanities Hub of the UK's Resource Discovery Network) but rather as a tool for working scholars and funders to track the work done in a given area and to find reusable resources. The University of Michigan, Rice University Library and the University of Virginia have contributed personnel and resources; their professional library cataloguers ensure consistency and reliability of information. The database prototype, available in 2002, was seeded with data from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Getty Grant Program. Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials The NINCH Guide is a practical online guide for those in all sectors of the community who are digitizing and networking cultural resources. A NINCH Working Group representing all sectors of the community created a set of six core principles defining good practice. The group then outlined the scope of a Guide that would be based on a survey of current practice and organized as a decision tree for the user. A team led by Seamus Ross from the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute of The University of Glasgow was hired to conduct interviews with a wide range of digitization sites and to write the Guide. Thirteen sections follow the broad life-cycle of digital projects: from Resource Assessment, Selection of Materials and Digital Rights Management, through the technical questions of digitizing all formats, to the issues of Sustainability, User Assessment, Digital Asset Management and Preservation. In addition to the Guide itself, a Bibliography, an edited set of interview reports and the interview instrument will be available. The Guide will be made available initially in a flat text file and incrementally deploying an innovative presentation interface enabling the user to navigate the text through a layered decision-tree format. This project has been made possible through a grant from the Getty Grant Program.