By 2005 Blackwell’s Companion to Digital Humanities had been published, and theAlliance for Digital Humanities Organizations had been established. There’s one more key event to relate, and that's the launch in 2006 of the Digital Humanities Initiative by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), then under the chairmanshipof Bruce Cole and with leadership provided by Brett Bobley, a charismatic andimaginative individual who doubles as the agency’s CIO.