AGENCY: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)/ National Science Foundation (NSF)/ The Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)/ The U.K. Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
   
PROGRAM: Digging into Data Challenge

OBJECTIVES: This program provides funding to encourage innovative approaches to data-driven inquiry or cyberscholarship. The goal of this program is 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.

This program hopes to promote the development and deployment of innovative research techniques in large-scale data analysis; promote international collaboration; 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 work with data repositories that hold large digital collections to ensure efficient access to these materials for research.

Please note that each agency has also produced an RFP Addendum with information specific to that funder. Each agency will have different rules and requirements, depending on its mission and its policies and procedures. Before submission applicants should carefully read the NEH RFP as well as the RFP Addenda for any of the agencies to which the applicant wishes to apply. The RFP Addenda can be found at the Digging into Data website (http://www.diggingintodata.org/).

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS: This competition is open only to international partnerships involving at least two of the three participating countries: Canada, England or Wales in the United Kingdom, and the United States. Each project must be sponsored by at least two research teams from at least two different countries.

DEADLINE:
Letter of Intent (required): March 15, 2009
Full Proposal: July 15, 2009
 
FUNDING INFORMATION: Please see the individual RFA Addenda for detailed funding information.

AGENCY CONTACT:
Please see the individual RFA Addenda for specific contact information.
Email: did@neh.gov
Web: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/diggingintodata.html

REMARKS: Applicants must submit a letter of intent via the program website (http://www.diggingintodata.org) by March 15, 2009. The letter should be no more than three pages and in PDF format.

Applications must be submitted electronically via the program website by July 15, 2009. All documents must be submitted in PDF format.