Announcing the Digging into Data Challenge
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A joint initiative of the Joint Information Systems Committee () from the United Kingdom, the National Endowment for the Humanities () from the United States, the National Science Foundation () from the United States, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council () of Canada.
The advent of what has been called "data-driven inquiry" or
"cyberscholarship" has changed the nature of inquiry across many
disciplines, including the sciences and humanities, revealing new
opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration on problems of
common interest.听 The creation of vast quantities of Internet
accessible digital data and the development of techniques for
large-scale data analysis and visualization have led to remarkable
new discoveries in genetics, astronomy, and other fields,
and-importantly-connections between academic disciplinary
areas.听 New techniques of large-scale data analysis allow
researchers to discover relationships, detect discrepancies, and
perform computations on data sets that are so large that they can
be processed only using computing resources and computational
methods developed and made economically affordable within the past
few years.听 With books, newspapers, journals, films, artworks,
and sound recordings being digitized on a massive scale, it is
possible to apply data analysis techniques to large collections of
diverse cultural heritage resources as well as scientific
data.听 How might these techniques help scholars use these
materials to ask new questions about and gain new insights into our
world?听 To encourage innovative approaches to this question,
four international research organizations are organizing a joint
grant competition to focus the attention of the social science and
humanities research communities on large-scale data analysis and
its potential application to a wide range of scholarly
resources.
Applicants will form international teams from at least two of the participating countries.
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The goals of the initiative are:
- to promote the development and deployment of innovative research techniques in large-scale data analysis;
- 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;
- to promote international collaboration; and
- to work with data repositories that hold large digital collections to ensure efficient access to these materials for research.
The complete RFP online:
Team leaders from 成人VR视频 should also consult the ADDENDUM FOR SSHRC on this same website.
Agency DEADLINE - Letter of intent: March 15, 2009听
(LOI is mandatory)
RGO DEADLINE - Letter of intent: 5 working days before the
agency deadline
Agency DEADLINE - Full proposal: July 15,
2009
RGO DEADLINE: TBA (please inform RGO if you are invited to
submit a full proposal)
For any other information or questions, please contact Rupa Narasimhadevara at 514-398-7105