This project will focus on a body of 53,000 18th-century letters, and analyze the degree to which the effects of the Enlightenment can be observed in the letters of people of various occupations.
In advance of the DID Challenge, the funders approached many major repositories of digital materials and asked them to provide contact and technical support information for gaining access to their collections. This list is constantly being updated, so check back often. If you are a representative of such a collection and wish to be added to this list, please contact the DID Challenge organizers.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature...
As of March 2011, Chronicling America provides free and searchable access to more than 3.3 million pages of historic newspapers, published between 1860 and 1922. These newspapers are selected and digitized by NEH awardees through the National...
As of January 2013, the COnnecting REpositories (CORE) system, hosted at The Open University, provides access to millions of open access research articles aggregated from over 250+...
DANS is the Dutch national centre of expertise and repository for research data. We help researchers make their data available for reuse. This allows researchers to use the data for new research and makes published research...
A Report on the Experiences of First Respondents to the Digging Into Data Challenge
RFP-English (591.65 KB) (Revised 25 April) RFP-French (363.56 KB) (Revised 28 March) Instructions-English (27 June) (217.4 KB) Instructions-French (264.07 KB) (edited 28 June)The 2016 deadline is now over!
Argentina
MINCyT Addendum (18.74 KB)
MINCyT Budget Form (updated) (38 KB)Brazil
FAPESP Addendum (311.33 KB) FAPESP Budget form (981.76 KB)Canada
Joint Canadian Funders Addendum (English) (126.41 KB) Joint Canadian Funders Addendum (French) (147.2 KB) SSHRC Budget Form (14.19 KB) NSERC Budget Form (10.8 KB) FRQSC - FRQNT Budget Form (15.61 KB)Finland
AKA Addendum (88.93 KB) AKA Budget form (20.64 KB)France
ANR Addendum (644.69 KB) ANR Budget form (450.5 KB)Germany
DFG Addendum (111.14 KB)
DFG Budget form (19.64 KB) DFG Budget example (22.3 KB)Mexico
CONACYT Addendum (149.88 KB) CONACYT Budget Form (13.3 KB)Netherlands
NWO Addendum (211.61 KB) NWO Budget form (41.34 KB)Portugal*
FCT Addendum (99.03 KB) FCT Budget form (10.76 KB)*Note: Edit on 14 March: FCT (Portugal) is now confirmed to participate. New version of Addendum posted 15 March.
United Kingdom
Joint UK Addendum (22.93 KB) Joint UK Budget form (15.51 KB)United States
NEH Addendum (98.59 KB) NSF Addendum (209.8 KB) IMLS Addendum (113.54 KB) Joint US Budget form (45 KB) Joint US Budget Instructions (186.24 KB) Joint US Budget Example (23.2 KB)
