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CLIR Report
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 Read the 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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Press
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Press releases about Round Three:
AHRC CFI ESRC IMLS Jisc NEH NSERC NSF NWO NLeSC SSHRC
March, 2013: Breaking News: The DiD IMPACT project, which is gathering scans of mummies from around the world for study, is making news around the world after the release of a new paper in the Lancet.
The Washington Post, March 10, 2013, "Hardening of the arteries common in ancient mummies."
USA Today, March 10, 2013, "Mummies show signs of heart disease."
Nature, March 11, 2013, "Mummies reveal that clogged arteries plagued the ancient world."
The Washington Post, March 11, 2013, "Even mummies get clogged arteries."
Time, March 11, 2013, "Even Mummies Had Clogged Arteries."
NEH Website, March 12, 2013, "Eat, Drink, and Be Mummy: Digging into Data Uncovers Surprising Health News."
The New York Times, March 12, 2013, "CT Scans Find Vascular Disease in Ancient Mummies."
The Atlantic, March 12, 2013, "Study: Mummies Have Atherosclerosis, Too."
Al-Jazeera, March 12, 2013, "Clogged arteries found in ancient mummies."
BBC News, March 12, 2013, "Heart disease present in ancient mummies."
Los Angeles Times, March 12, 2013, "Signs of heart disease found in far-flung antique mummies."
The Australian, March 12, 2013, "Mummies reveal heart disease is an age-old problem."
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2013 Application Materials
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Below is the Request for Proposals (RFP) and supplementary materials. All files are in PDF format except where noted.
Main RFP:
RFP Addenda:
Budget Forms:
How to Apply
To send in your application, please read instructions above and then use our Online Application System. All applications must be submitted by May 15, 2013.
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Welcome to the Challenge
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February 5, 2013: Welcome to Round Three
On behalf of ten research funders representing Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States, we invite you to apply for Round Three of the Digging into Data Challenge.
Now going into the third round of the competition, the Digging into Data Challenge has funded a wide variety of projects that explore how computationally intensive research methods can be used to ask new questions about and gain new insights into our world. To encourage innovative research from across the globe, Digging into Data is sponsored by ten international research funding organizations that are working together to focus the attention of the social sciences, humanities, library, archival, information, computer, mathematical, and statistical science communities on large-scale data analysis and its potential applications.
The Digging into Data Challenge aims to address how "big data" changes the research landscape for the humanities and social sciences. Now that we have massive databases of materials available for research in the humanities and the social sciences--ranging from digitized books, newspapers, and music to information generated by Internet-based activities and mobile communications, administrative data from public agencies, and customer databases from private sector organizations-—what new, computationally-based research methods might we apply? As the world becomes increasingly digital, new techniques will be needed to search, analyze, and understand these materials. Digging into Data challenges the research community to help create the new research infrastructure for 21st-century scholarship.
Applicants will form international teams from at least two of the participating countries. Winning teams will receive grants from two or more of the funding agencies and, two years later, will be invited to show off their work at a special conference sponsored by the ten funders.
Let's get digging.
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A Bit of History
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For Round One, the Digging into Data Challenge was sponsored by four research funders (NEH, NSF, SSHRC, Jisc) representing the US, Canada, and UK. Eventually, 8 international projects emerged as winners. Many of these projects were written up in publications such as the New York Times and were the subject of a major research report published by CLIR. All 8 projects presented their work at a conference in Washington, DC in June of 2011. For Round Two, four additional funders joined the DiD ranks (IMLS, AHRC, ESRC, NWO) and the Netherlands joined as a fourth country. At the end of Round Two, 14 projects won awards, chosen by our international peer reviewers. These 14 will present their work at an upcoming conference slated for late 2013. Finally, for Round Three, another two funders have joined DiD (CFI and NSERC), bringing us to a total of ten. DiD also maintains a huge list of digital libraries, archives, and repositories that make their data available to researchers.
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Sponsors
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Repositories
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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.
Current List of Data Repositories
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