The DH Awards 2016 are overseen by an international Nominations Committee consisting of:
- James Cummings (Founder/Director) — University of Oxford
- Sheila Brennan — Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University
- Marjorie Burghart — EHESS: École des Haute Études en Sciences Sociales (Lyon)
- Kiyonori Nagasaki — International Institute for Digital Humanities 一般財団法人 人文情報学研究所 (Tokyo)
- Miriam Peña Pimentel — UNAM: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
As necessary we will also seek additional ad hoc assistance for some nominations by experts in those subject areas.