[okfn-discuss] Fwd: GRANT FUNDING CALL 01/09: THE DIGGING INTO DATA CHALLENGE

Fri Jan 16 15:50:53 UTC 2009

This looks like a really interesting project!

J.

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The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), the National Endowment
for the Humanities (NEH) from the United States, the National Science
Foundation (NSF) from the United States, and the Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) from Canada invites institutions
to submit proposals for the Digging into Data Challenge

http://www.diggingintodata.org/.

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.
To work with data repositories that hold large digital collections to
ensure efficient access to these materials for research.

The JISC is making a total of £200,000 available for this initiative.
Lead institutions from England and Wales may apply for up to £100,000
of funding.  Funding is available for projects starting from January
2010 for up to 15 months.  All projects must be completed by March
2011.

The proposal process will be in two stages and interested potential
applicants must first send a letter of intent by 15 March 2009.  The
deadline for receipt of the final proposal in response to this call
will be Wednesday 15 July 2009.  Late proposals will NOT be accepted.

Details of how to submit are in the main request for proposal.  Each
funder has also produced an addendum with information specific to that
funder and this should be read in conjunction with the main proposal.
A full version of the call can be found at
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2009/01/grant0109.aspx.

Avalon McAllister
JISC Executive
Tel: 0117 9317124
Mobile: 07841 951 294
Fax: 0117 9317255
Email: a.mcallister at jisc.ac.uk

Please visit our web site at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/

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