Chair: Ray Siemens Presenters (4-5 minute presentations):-Michael Eberle-Sinatra, " Understanding Academic Capacity: A Charge from our Funding Agency "-Lynne Siemens, " Developing Academic Capacity in Digital Humanities: Thoughts from the Canadian Community and Beyond "-Ray Siemens, " DH Training Capacity: Established Curriculum, Institutes, Camps, and Beyond "-Stéfan Sinclair, " Building from the Ground up: Training Digital Humanities Scholars as Developers "-Susan Brown, " Hidden Capacity (in DH-impacted disciplines) "-Meagan Timney, " Transitions: Emerging in the Field "-Geoffrey Rockwell, " Cyberinfrastructure for Research in the Humanities: Expectations and Capacity " Panel Description: In a recent report from omplete%20Report.pdf) humanities computing was identified as an " emerging field " with " significant strength, " alongside several other science-oriented " transdisciplinary fields … for which future prospects are seen to be more significant than currently established strength. " Concomitant discussions with our chief research funding agency, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), yielded a need to understand, better, the 'capacity' of this community in Canada and beyond, in part to gauge the potential future impact of our interdiscipline which, itself, has been generously supported for a decade with dedicated programs such as SSHRC's Image, Text, Sound Technology program and research infrastructural programs such as the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI). Manifest in a report commissioned by SSHRC, our panel discusses the results of and reactions to the activity of attempting to understand our field's capacity, both within the national context that spawned the study and the borderless environment occupied by the field. The panel consists of several very short presentations, followed by discussion. Michael Eberle-Sinatra's presentation will discuss specific aspects of the report itself, among them the field's history of interrelationship with supporting programs, societies, and initiatives; how the field presents itself to, and intersects with, the larger humanities community; the field's notable successes, notable contributions, and chief projects; and what is anticipated to be needed next to enable excellent and timely research across the humanities, from the perspective of the field – all through the lens of the fields enabling possibilities via methods, tools and cyberinfrastructure. Lynne Siemens will juxtapose the growing acceptance of digital humanities research and teaching methods, technologies and resources with a series of challenges that still face scholars,