Biodiversity Heritage Library: Digging into Data Challenge Winners Announced

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-01-31

Summary:

"On January 15, 2014, ten international research funders from four countries jointly announced the winners of the third Digging into Data Challenge, a competition to develop new insights, tools and skills in innovative humanities and social science research using large-scale data analysis. Fourteen international teams representing Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States will receive grants totaling approximately $5.1 million to investigate how computational techniques can be applied to “Big Data”.  Their work will address the evolving nature of humanities and social sciences research, which often relies on massive multisource datasets.  Each team represents collaborations among scholars, scientists, and information professionals from leading universities and libraries in Europe and North America. The first round of the Digging into Data Challenge was held in 2009 and the second in 2011. Previous Digging into Data research projects have received international attention.  The 2013 winners were selected from among 69 applications and address a wide variety of topics.  Among the sponsoring bodies, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) announced, on January 15, 2014, the winners of the third Digging into Data Challenge that they will fund.  IMLS’s contribution of $424,591 supports the American researchers from three of the mentioned fourteen international teams: the Missouri Botanical Garden, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of South Carolina. As part of an international team involving partners in UK, Canada and the USA, Missouri Botanical Garden was awarded $175,000 by the IMLS to lead the USA members of the Mining Biodiversity Project team in applying innovative computational techniques to biodiversity texts and help improve the way we view, access and share the knowledge contained within the Biodiversity Heritage Library ..."

Link:

http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2014/01/digging-into-data-challenge-winners.html

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oa.new oa.awards oa.funders oa.imls oa.libraries oa.museums oa.archives oa.data oa.mining oa.bhl oa.humanities oa.ch oa.ssh oa.announcements

Date tagged:

01/31/2014, 09:24

Date published:

01/31/2014, 04:24