I came across the Digging Into Data Challenge website today and thought it might be of interest to IMT readers. Below is a description of the project, a few related links, and an abbreviated list of links to a wide range of data repositories on the web.
ABOUT
"Welcome to the second round of the Digging into Data Challenge. During the first round, in 2009, nearly 90 international research teams competed in the challenge. Ultimately, eight remarkable projects were awarded grants."
"In 2011, the Digging into Data Challenge has returned for a second round, this time much larger, with sponsorship from eight international research funders, representing Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States."
"What is the "challenge" we speak of? The idea behind the Digging into Data Challenge is to address how "big data" changes the research landscape for the humanities and social sciences. Now that we have massive databases of materials used by scholars in the humanities and social sciences -- ranging from digitized books, newspapers, and music to transactional data like web searches, sensor data or cell phone records -- what new, computationally-based research methods might we apply? As the world becomes increasingly digital, new techniques will be needed to search, analyze, and understand these everyday materials. Digging into Data challenges the research community to help create the new research infrastructure for 21st century scholarship."
"Applicants will form international teams from at least two of the participating countries. Winning teams will receive grants from two or more of the funding agencies and, two years later, will be invited to show off their work at a special conference sponsored by the eight funders."
"Let's get digging."
RELATED
Digging into Data Challenge Second Year Request for Proposals
Press Release Round Two: Digging Into Data Challenge: Social and computational scientist asked to design methods and tools for analyzing large data sets (National Science Foundation)
Times Higher Education, April 28, 2011, "Research intelligence - Let's dig a little deeper"
The New York Times, November 16, 2010, "Digital Keys for Unlocking the Humanities’ Riches"
The Globe and Mail, June 18, 2010, "Supercomputers seek to ‘model humanity’"
Be sure to visit the Digging Into Data Challenge data repository page. Each repository is annotated in detail and includes links and in some cases, APIs. The page is updated regularly, and at the time of this post, was updated on May 26, 2011. For your convenience, here's the abbreviated version of the Digging Into Data Challenge list of repositories:
The Archaeology Data Services (ADS)
http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/
ARTStor.org
http://www.artstor.org
Biodiversity Heritage Library
http://biodiversitylibrary.org
The Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art Canadian Art Database Project
http://ccca.ca
Chronicling America, Library of Congress, National Digital Newspaper Program
http://loc.gov/chroniclingamerica
Data-PASS
http://www.icpsr.umish.edu/DATAPASS/
Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE)
http://www.dlese.org
Early Canadiana Online
http://canadiana.ca
English Broadside Ballad Archive
http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu
Great War Primary Documents Archive
http://www.gwpda.org
Harvard Time Series Center (TSC)
http://timemachine.iic.harvard.edu/search/
The History Data Service (HDS)
http://hds.essex.ac.uk
Infochimps.org
http://www.infochimps.com/
Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
http://icpsr.umich.edu
JISC MediaHub
http://jiscmediahub.ac.uk
JSTOR
http://jstor.org
Marriott LibraryUniversity of Utah
http://ww.lib.utah.edu/portal/site/marriottlibrary/
NASA ADS: Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/index.html
National Archives, London
http://nationalarchives.gov.uk
The National Library of Wales
http://www.llgc.org.uk
National Science Digital Library (NSDL)
http://www.nsdl.org
National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
http://www.ntis.gov/
http://cdrh.unl.edu/nebnewspapers/
New York Public Library
http://NYPL.org
The New York Times Article Search API
http://developer.nytimes.com/
Opening History
http://imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu/history/
PhilPapers (philosophy)
http://philpapers.org
Project MUSE
http://muse.jhu.edu/
PSLC DataShop (Pittsburg Science of Learning Center)
http://pslcdatashop.web.cmu.edu/
Scholarly Database at the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center, Indiana University
http://sdb.slis.indiana.edu
ScholarSpace at the
http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/community-list
Statistical Accounts of Scotland
http://edina.ac.uk/stat-acc-scot/
University of
http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc
Just a thought....
I'd be interested in learning if any of the researchers involved in the Digging Into Data Challenge plan to work on an interactive, multidimensional, multimedia timeline to support collaborative data sharing and analysis.
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