The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and seven global partners have awarded about $4.8 million to international research teams investigating how computational techniques may be applied to ‘big data’ — the massive multisource datasets made possible by modern technology.
Fourteen teams representing Canada, the Netherlands, the UK and the US were named winners of the second Digging Into Data Challenge, a competition to promote innovative humanities and social science research using large-scale data analysis. Each team represents collaborations among scholars, scientists, and librarians from leading universities worldwide.
The first round of the Digging into Data Challenge, held in 2009, was sponsored by four international funders and led to breakthrough projects. This year, an expanded group of funders, including IMLS, is supporting fourteen projects that apply ‘cyberscholarship’ to a wide variety of topics, such as developing a suite of tools to explore fully medieval charters that survive in abundance from the 12th to the 16th centuries; using information retrieval techniques to investigate changes in Western music; and using high resolution medical imaging scanning to study Egyptian mummies.
The sponsoring research funders include the Arts & Humanities Research Council (UK), the Economic & Social Research Council (UK), the Institute of Museum and Library Services (US), the Joint Information Systems Committee (UK), the National Endowment for the Humanities (US), the National Science Foundation (US), the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (Netherlands), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Canada).
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