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Winners of Round Four

T-AP Announces the 14 Winners of Round Four of the International Competition
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IEEE Big Data

Seven DiD Projects Featured at IEEE Big Data Conference

Seven papers written by Digging into Data Challenge PIs will be presented at the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Big Data held in Bethesda, MD on October 27, 2014.
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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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Award Updates / Recent Press
Digging into Data Resources
Application Materials

Award News and Updates

March 28, 2017: Winners of Round Four of the T-AP Digging into Data Challenge

February 27, 2017: White Papers for Digging Round Three (2013) Now Available

All Digging into Data Challenge projects issue a final "white paper" for the public that summarizes their research. Most of the 2013 projects have completed their white papers -- check out the...

August 17, 2016: "Digging into Data for Research"

August 2016. Read this new piece by Ted Hewitt, President of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, a recent feature from Adjacent Government.

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January 20, 2016: Digging Round Three Conference

This conference, held in Glasgow, UK on January 27 - 28, 2016, brings together the Digging into Data Round 3 Project award holders from all participating countries with additional stakeholders.

February 27, 2015: Big-Data Project on 1918 Flu Reflects Key Role of Humanists

On February 27, 2015, Jennifer Howard wrote a article in The Chronicle of Higher Education profiling the workof the Digging into...

Data Repositories

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.

ARTstor

ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.

Biodiversity Heritage Library

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...

Chronicling America Library of Congress National Digital Newspaper Program

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...

Connecting Repositories (CORE)

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+...

Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)

Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) promotes sustained access to digital research data. For this purpose, DANS encourages researchers to archive and reuse data in a sustained manner, e.g. through the online archiving...

2016 Application materials for the T-AP Digging into Data Challenge.

The 2016 deadline is now over. Thanks to the many international teams that applied!

Main RFP

RFP-English (591.65 KB) (Revised 25 April)
RFP-French (363.56 KB) (Revised 28 March)

Instructions on How to Use Online Application System

Instructions-English (27 June) (217.4 KB)
Instructions-French (264.07 KB) (edited 28 June)

Apply Now

The 2016 deadline is now over!

Country-Specific Documents

Argentina

MINCyT Addendum (18.74 KB)
MINCyT Budget Form (updated) (38 KB)

Brazil

FAPESP Addendum (311.33 KB)
FAPESP Budget form (981.76 KB)

Canada

Joint Canadian Funders Addendum (English) (126.41 KB)
Joint Canadian Funders Addendum (French) (147.2 KB)
SSHRC Budget Form (14.19 KB)
NSERC Budget Form (10.8 KB)
FRQSC - FRQNT Budget Form (15.61 KB)

Finland

AKA Addendum (88.93 KB)
AKA Budget form (20.64 KB)

France

ANR Addendum (644.69 KB)
ANR Budget form (450.5 KB)

Germany

DFG Addendum (111.14 KB)
DFG Budget form (19.64 KB)
DFG Budget example (22.3 KB)

Mexico

CONACYT Addendum (149.88 KB)
CONACYT Budget Form (13.3 KB)

Netherlands

NWO Addendum (211.61 KB)
NWO Budget form (41.34 KB)

Portugal*

FCT Addendum (99.03 KB)
FCT Budget form (10.76 KB)

*Note: Edit on 14 March: FCT (Portugal) is now confirmed to participate. New version of Addendum posted 15 March.

United Kingdom

Joint UK Addendum (22.93 KB)
Joint UK Budget form (15.51 KB)

United States

NEH Addendum (98.59 KB)
NSF Addendum (209.8 KB)
IMLS Addendum (113.54 KB)
Joint US Budget form (45 KB)
Joint US Budget Instructions (186.24 KB)
Joint US Budget Example (23.2 KB)