[SDH/SEMI Members] International Grant Opportunity: The Digging into Data Challenge (SSHRC/NEH/NSF/JISC)

[Ray Siemens]

<snip> [From neh-dhi-update at list.neh.gov, 16 January 2009]

The Digging into Data Challenge

The Digging into Data Challenge is an international grant competition
sponsored by four leading research agencies, the Joint Information Systems
Committee ( <http://www.jisc.ac.uk/> JISC) from the United Kingdom, the
National Endowment for the Humanities ( <http://www.neh.gov/> NEH) from the
United States, the National Science Foundation ( <http://www.nsf.gov/> NSF)
from the United States, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council ( <http://www.sshrc.ca/> SSHRC) from Canada. 

What is the "challenge" we speak of?  The idea behind the Digging into Data
Challenge is to answer the question "what do you do with a million books?"
Or a million pages of newspaper? Or a million photographs of artwork?  That
is, how does the notion of scale affect humanities and social science
research? Now that scholars have access to huge repositories of digitized
data -- far more than they could read in a lifetime -- what does that mean
for research?  Check out the competition website:
http://www.diggingintodata.org/.

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Brett Bobley
Chief Information Officer
Director, Office of Digital Humanities
National Endowment for the Humanities
http://www.neh.gov/odh/
(202) 606-8401
bbobley at neh.gov 
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