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Digging Into Data

Digging Into Data

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    Round Four Digging into Data Challenge Conference

    Round Four Digging into Data Challenge Conference

    January 29 - 31, 2020

    National Science Foundation
    2415 Eisenhower Avenue
    Alexandria, VA 22314
    USA

    Hashtag: #DiDAlexandria

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    Winners of Round Four

    T-AP Announces the 14 Winners of Round Four of the International Competition

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    CLIR Report

    One Culture: Computationally Intensive Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences

    A Report on the Experiences of First Respondents to the Digging Into Data Challenge

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  • Award Updates / Recent Press
  • Digging into Data Resources
  • Application Materials

Award News and Updates

October 9, 2019: Round 4 Conference (2020)

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March 28, 2017: Winners of Round Four of the T-AP Digging into Data Challenge

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February 27, 2017: White Papers for Digging Round Three (2013) Now Available

All Digging into Data Challenge projects issue a final "white paper" for the public that summarizes their research. Most of the 2013 projects have completed their white papers -- check out the Round Three...

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August 17, 2016: "Digging into Data for Research"

August 2016. Read this new piece by Ted Hewitt, President of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, a recent feature from Adjacent Government.

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January 20, 2016: Digging Round Three Conference

This conference, held in Glasgow, UK on January 27 - 28, 2016, brings together the Digging into Data Round 3 Project award holders from all participating countries with additional stakeholders.

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Recent Press

    • Pequisa, May 2017 (monthly), "A realidade que emerge da avalanche de dados" (Portuguese)
    • University Affairs, May 2, 2017, "Big data research awards show the potential of international collaboration"
    • University of Pennsylvania Almanac, April 25, 2017 "Mapping Manuscript Migrations: T-AP Digging into Data Challenge Award"
    • McGill Reporter, April 19, 2017 "McGill project wins digging into Data Challenge"
    • idw News Item. April 19, 2017. Volkskunde und Big Data.
    • Cuniform Digital Library Initiative, April 3, 2017 "Machine assisted translation of cuneiform texts"
    • University of California, Los Angeles, April 3, 2017 "UCLA Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Professor Robert K. Englund Receives Prestigious Grant for Research Collaboration on Big Data"
    • Queen Mary University of London, March 31, 2017 "Musical influence in jazz investigated with ‘Big Data’"
    • University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, March 31, 2017 "Dr. Richard Smiraglia Awarded IMLS Grant: Digging Into The Knowledge Graph"
    • SSHRC/NSERC (Canada) Press Release, March 31, 2017 "Granting councils award funding to teams from both sides of the Atlantic to advance digital research"
    • FAPESP (Brazil) Press Release, March 31, 2017 "FAPESP and Trans-Atlantic Platform announce result of call for proposals"
    • University of Waterloo, March 30, 2017 "Professor Jesse Hoey awarded funding from Trans-Atlantic Platform for the Social Sciences and Humanities"
    • University of Oxford, March 30, 2017 "New £566,000 collaborative project under DIGGING INTO DATA programme"
    • NEH (US) Press Release, March 30, 2017 "Sixteen International Research Funders Announce the Winners of the 2017 T-AP Digging into Data Challenge"
    • Universität Rostock, March 29, 2017. ISEBEL gräbt in Big Data.
    • Meertens Instituut. March 29, 2017. NWO-subsidie voor intelligente zoekmachine voor verhalenbanken.
    • Aalto University, March 29, 2017 "Funding for research on child language experiences and medieval & renaissance manuscripts"
    • IMLS (US) Press Release, March 29, 2017 "Sixteen Funders Announce Worldwide Winners of the 2017 T-AP Digging into Data Challenge"
    • ESRC (UK) Press Release, March 29, 2017 "...

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Data Repositories

In advance of the DID Challenge, the funders approached many major repositories of digital materials and asked them to provide contact and technical support information for gaining access to their collections.  This list is constantly being updated, so check back often.  If you are a representative of such a collection and wish to be added to this list, please contact the DID Challenge organizers.

ARTstor

ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.

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Biodiversity Heritage Library

The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature...

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Chronicling America Library of Congress National Digital Newspaper Program

As of March 2011, Chronicling America provides free and searchable access to more than 3.3 million pages of historic newspapers, published between 1860 and 1922. These newspapers are selected and digitized by NEH awardees through the National...

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Connecting Repositories (CORE)

As of January 2013, the COnnecting REpositories (CORE) system, hosted at The Open University, provides access to millions of open access research articles aggregated from over 250+...

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Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)

DANS is the Dutch national centre of expertise and repository for research data. We help researchers make their data available for reuse. This allows researchers to use the data for new research and makes published research...

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CLIR Report

One Culture: Computationally Intensive Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences

A Report on the Experiences of First Respondents to the Digging Into Data Challenge

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2016 Application materials for the T-AP Digging into Data Challenge.

The 2016 deadline is now over. Thanks to the many international teams that applied!

Main RFP

  • PDF icon t-ap.did_.2016.rfp_.english.4.pdf (591.65 KB) (Revised 25 April)
  • PDF icon tap-did_rfp_2016_f.3.pdf (363.56 KB) (Revised 28 March)

Instructions on How to Use Online Application System

  • PDF icon application_instructions_did_round_4.0.english.27june.pdf (217.4 KB)
  • PDF icon app.instructions.french28june.pdf (264.07 KB) (edited 28 June)

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The 2016 deadline is now over! 

Country-Specific Documents

Argentina

  • PDF icon mincyt_addendum.2016.pdf (18.74 KB)
  • Office spreadsheet icon mincyt_budgetform_2016.dic_.23.2015_mincyt.2.xls (38 KB)

Brazil 

  • PDF icon fapesp-addendum_.2016.final20160226_.pdf (311.33 KB)
  • File fapesp_budget_2016.apr_.final_.xlsx (981.76 KB)

Canada

  • PDF icon digging_into_data_canadian_funders_joint_addendum_2016_finale.pdf (126.41 KB)
  • PDF icon digging_into_data_canadian_funders_joint_addendum_2016_finalf.pdf (147.2 KB)
  • File sshrc_budget_table_2016.final_with_french_tab_2015.xlsx (14.19 KB)
  • File nserc_budget_form.2016.xlsx (10.8 KB)
  • File frqsc-frqnt_joint_budget.form_2016.en-fr_vf.xlsx (15.61 KB)

Finland

  • PDF icon aka_addendum.2016.pdf (88.93 KB)
  • File aka_budget_table.2016.xlsx (20.64 KB)

France

  • PDF icon anr_addendum.2.dida2016_anr.2.pdf (644.69 KB)
  • Office spreadsheet icon anr_budget_final.1.dida2016_2.xls (450.5 KB)

Germany

  • PDF icon dfg_addendum_.2016.09-dec-2015.pdf (111.14 KB)
  • File dfg_budget_template.2016.docx (19.64 KB)
  • File dfg_budget_example.2016.docx (22.3 KB)

Mexico

  • PDF icon conacyt_addendum.2016.28.march_.pdf (149.88 KB)
  • File conacyt_budget_form_2016.v2.xlsx (13.3 KB)

Netherlands

  • PDF icon nwo_addendum_2.pdf (211.61 KB)
  • File nwo_financial_form_did.2016.docx (41.34 KB)

Portugal*

  • PDF icon fct.addendum.version2.pdf (99.03 KB)
  • File fct_budgetform.blank_.2016.xlsx (10.76 KB)

*Note: Edit on 14 March: FCT (Portugal) is now confirmed to participate. New version of Addendum posted 15 March.

United Kingdom

  • PDF icon uk_joint_addendum_2016.2015_final.pdf (22.93 KB)
  • File uk_joint_budget_template.2016._2015.xlsx (15.51 KB)

United States

  • PDF icon neh.addendum.3-march.2016.pdf (98.59 KB)
  • PDF icon nsf_addendum_final_03_09_2016.pdf (209.8 KB)
  • PDF icon imls_addendum_2016.12-dec-2015.pdf (113.54 KB)
  • Office spreadsheet icon us_joint_budget_form_2016.xls (45 KB)
  • PDF icon us_joint_budget_instructions_2016.pdf (186.24 KB)
  • PDF icon us_joint_sample_budget_2016.pdf (23.2 KB)

 

Award Sponsors

The Digging into Data Challenges would not be possible without the support and cooperation of our sponsors, both past and current.

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