This project will integrate a vast collection of textual, geographical and numerical data to allow for the visual presentation of the railroads and its impact on society over time, concentrating initially on the Great Plains and Northeast United States.
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.
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...
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...
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+...
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...
A Report on the Experiences of First Respondents to the Digging Into Data Challenge
t-ap.did_.2016.rfp_.english.4.pdf (591.65 KB) (Revised 25 April) tap-did_rfp_2016_f.3.pdf (363.56 KB) (Revised 28 March) application_instructions_did_round_4.0.english.27june.pdf (217.4 KB) app.instructions.french28june.pdf (264.07 KB) (edited 28 June)The 2016 deadline is now over!
Argentina
mincyt_addendum.2016.pdf (18.74 KB)
mincyt_budgetform_2016.dic_.23.2015_mincyt.2.xls (38 KB)Brazil
fapesp-addendum_.2016.final20160226_.pdf (311.33 KB) fapesp_budget_2016.apr_.final_.xlsx (981.76 KB)Canada
digging_into_data_canadian_funders_joint_addendum_2016_finale.pdf (126.41 KB) digging_into_data_canadian_funders_joint_addendum_2016_finalf.pdf (147.2 KB) sshrc_budget_table_2016.final_with_french_tab_2015.xlsx (14.19 KB) nserc_budget_form.2016.xlsx (10.8 KB) frqsc-frqnt_joint_budget.form_2016.en-fr_vf.xlsx (15.61 KB)Finland
aka_addendum.2016.pdf (88.93 KB) aka_budget_table.2016.xlsx (20.64 KB)France
anr_addendum.2.dida2016_anr.2.pdf (644.69 KB) anr_budget_final.1.dida2016_2.xls (450.5 KB)Germany
dfg_addendum_.2016.09-dec-2015.pdf (111.14 KB)
dfg_budget_template.2016.docx (19.64 KB) dfg_budget_example.2016.docx (22.3 KB)Mexico
conacyt_addendum.2016.28.march_.pdf (149.88 KB) conacyt_budget_form_2016.v2.xlsx (13.3 KB)Netherlands
nwo_addendum_2.pdf (211.61 KB) nwo_financial_form_did.2016.docx (41.34 KB)Portugal*
fct.addendum.version2.pdf (99.03 KB) 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
uk_joint_addendum_2016.2015_final.pdf (22.93 KB) uk_joint_budget_template.2016._2015.xlsx (15.51 KB)United States
neh.addendum.3-march.2016.pdf (98.59 KB) nsf_addendum_final_03_09_2016.pdf (209.8 KB) imls_addendum_2016.12-dec-2015.pdf (113.54 KB) us_joint_budget_form_2016.xls (45 KB) us_joint_budget_instructions_2016.pdf (186.24 KB) us_joint_sample_budget_2016.pdf (23.2 KB)
