Have you heard about the Digging Into Data Challenge?
Grabbed from the international grant competition site, Digging Into Data: “The idea behind the Digging into Data Challenge is to answer the question ‘what do you do with a million books?’ Or a million pages of newspaper? Or a million photographs of artwork? That is, how does the notion of scale affect humanities and social science research? Now that scholars have access to huge repositories of digitized data — far more than they could read in a lifetime — what does that mean for research?”
If you are a data nerd, you are no doubt excited by all the possibilities. But wait, there’s more! Check out the list of repositories willing to open their data sets to you: JSTOR?! Project MUSE?! ICPSR!
Letters of intent are due March 15. Get cracking! Read more at http://www.diggingintodata.org/
