In June 2012, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) issued the first public appraisal of the digging into data challenge, an international grant program first funded by the US National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the US National Science Foundation, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) in the UK, and the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.The report, One Culture: Computationally Intensive Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, was made public at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries JCDL 2012 conference in Washington, DC.The digging into data challenge was launched in 2009 to better understand how "big data" changes the research landscape for the humanities and social sciences. Scholars in these disciplines now use massive databases of materials that ranee from digitized books.
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