Description
This grant program is offered as part of the Trans-Atlantic Platform (T-AP) for the Social Sciences and the Humanities. The Digging into Data Challenge, which was newly revised and expanded for this year, provides funding for up to three years. The four overarching goals of the T-AP Digging into Data Challenge are to• address humanities and social sciences research questions by using innovative research techniques in large-scale data analysis; and show how these new techniques can lead to new theoretical insights;
• stimulate transatlantic research collaborations that provide added value to digital scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, i.e., above what can be accomplished by single-nation efforts;
• foster interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers in the humanities, social sciences, computer sciences, library science, archival science, information sciences, mathematical and statistical sciences, engineering, and other fields, around questions of data analysis; and
• promote efficient access to and sharing of the materials for research by working with data repositories that hold large digital collections.
External reviewer
"The term 'humanities' includes, but is not limited to, the study and interpretation of the following: language, both modern and classical; linguistics; literature; history; jurisprudence; philosophy; archaeology; comparative religion; ethics; the history, criticism and theory of the arts; those aspects of social sciences which have humanistic content and employ humanistic methods; and the study and application of the humanities to the human environment with particular attention to reflecting our diverse heritage, traditions, and history and to the relevance of the humanities to the current conditions of national life."
| Period | 14 Oct 2016 → 25 Oct 2016 |
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| Work for | The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency created in 1965. It is one of the largest funders of humanities programs in the United States. , United States |