Dear Colleague Letter
NSF/SBE Partnering in Round 4 of the Digging into Data Challenge
National Science Foundation
Dr. Fay Lomax Cook
Assistant Director
Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences
Dear Colleagues:
The purpose of this Dear Colleague Letter is to announce that the
National Science Foundation's Directorate for Social, Behavioral &
Economic Sciences is partnering in the Trans-Atlantic Platform 2016
Digging into Data Challenge (T-AP DiD). Digging into Data is a grant
competition open to international, collaborative projects that address
research questions in humanities and/or social science disciplines by
using new, large-scale, digital data analysis techniques.
The Digging into Data Challenge has been funding cutting-edge digital
research in the humanities and social sciences since 2009. Now under the
auspices of T-AP, the program's fourth round of competition will support
collaborative research teams from three continents: Europe (Finland,
France, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal and the United Kingdom);
North America (Canada, Mexico, the United States); and South America
(Brazil and Argentina).
T-AP is an unprecedented collaboration among key humanities and social
science funders and facilitators from South America, North America and
Europe. T-AP aims to enhance the ability of funders, research
organizations and researchers to engage in transnational dialogue and
collaboration. Among other activities, it works to identify common
challenges and emerging priorities in social science and humanities
research. T-AP also facilitates the formation of networks within the
social sciences and humanities and helps connect them with other
disciplines.
The funding opportunity is open to international projects that consist
of teams from at least three participating T-AP Digging into Data
countries, and must include partners from both sides of the Atlantic,
i.e., from Europe and the Americas. Research partners will receive
funding from their own national funding agencies for projects of up to
36 months in duration.
All projects must address a research question in humanities and/or
social science disciplines by using large-scale, digital data analysis.
The T-AP Digging into Data Challenge specifically aims to advance
multidisciplinary collaborative projects in digital scholarship that
seek new perspectives and insights, utilizing any data source or
computer science techniques to do so.
Additional information about this transatlantic funding opportunity *
including links to application details * will be available on the DiD
application website as of March 1, 2016. Interested researchers should
review the website for details about the competition and see the list of
previous awards on the site for information as to what research areas
have been supported in previous rounds.
Questions should be directed to the NSF program officer for the T-AP
Digging into Data Challenge, Joan Maling.
Sincerely,
Dr. Fay Lomax Cook
Assistant Director
Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences
For more information on the Dig into Data Challenge including
application materials, go to:
http://diggingintodata.org/about/application-materials.
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