Open Humanities Awards celebrate innovative projects using open cultural data | Opensource.com

"We are excited to announce the second round of the Open Humanities Awards, running from April 30 until May 30, 2014. There are €20,000 worth of prizes on offer in two dedicated tracks: [1] Open track: for projects that either use open content, open data, or open source tools to further humanities teaching and research DM2E track: for projects that build upon the research, tools, and data of the [2] DM2E project Whether you're interested in patterns of allusion in Aristotle, networks of correspondence in the Jewish Enlightenment, or digitising public domain editions of Dante—we'd love to hear about the kinds of open projects that could support your interest! ... Humanities research is based on the interpretation and analysis of a wide variety of cultural artifacts including texts, images, and audiovisual material. Much of this material is now freely and openly available on the internet enabling people to discover, connect, and contextualise cultural artifacts in ways previously very difficult.  We want to make the most of this new opportunity by encouraging budding developers and humanities researchers to collaborate and start new projects that use this open content and data paving the way for a vibrant cultural and research commons to emerge.  In addition, the DM2E project has developed tools to support Digital Humanities research, such as Pundit (a semantic web annotation tool), and delivered several interesting datasets from various content providers around Europe. The project is now inviting all researchers to submit a project building on this DM2E research in a special DM2E track ..."