Social Sciences and Humanities: Exploring Data Analysis Grant

The goals of the initiative are
to promote the development and deployment of innovative research techniques in large-scale data analysis;
to promote international collaboration;
to foster interdisciplinary collaboration among scholars in the humanities, social sciences, computer sciences, information sciences, and other fields, around questions of text and data analysis; and
to work with data repositories that hold large digital collections to ensure efficient access to these materials for research.
In recognition of the international nature of cyberinfrastructure/e-science, the Digging into Data Challenge will bring together international research teams to advance research and to share their results openly, so that others may learn from them.
The Digging into Data Challenge competition is sponsored by four leading funders from three countries:
The Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC);
The U.K. Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC);
The U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH); and
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF).
This Request for Proposals (RFP) explains how to apply to the Digging into Data Challenge. Please note that each funder has also produced an RFP Addendum with information specific to that funder. Each funder will have different rules and requirements, depending on its mission and its policies and procedures. Therefore, before you apply you should carefully read this RFP as well as the RFP Addenda for any of the funders to which you wish to apply. All of these documents are available on the Digging into Data Challenge Web site. (www.diggingintodata.org).