Digging Into Data Challenge

The Digging into Data Challenge is a grand competition organized by four international research organizations ( JISC, NEH, NSF, SSHRC ) from three countries — Canada, UK, and US — to focus the attention of the social science and humanities research communities to large-scale data analysis and its potential applications to a wide range of scholarly resources, to encourage innovative large scale data analytics approaches to help scholars use these tools to ask new questions about and gain new insights into the world. This challenge was launched Jan. 2009 and Dec. 2009 the Awardees announced, with project spanning from music (23,000 hours), speech, 18th-century letters (53,000), criminal record, authorship identification of culture heritage materials, etc. It is amazing that the collaborators of all these winning projects involves researchers from multiple countries and trying use large-scale data analytic power to find relationship, discrepancies and perform computation in large heterogeneous datasets. A collection of data repositories that research teams can get access to, including digital art collection, digital library, archeology, can be found here.

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