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DIGITAL FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES OPEN TO FACULTY
IN THE HUMANITIES
and
HUMANITIES-ORIENTED SOCIAL SCIENCES
It is our hope that this list of digital grant and fellowship opportunities will help you to determine which
external agencies might fund your digital project.
To navigate, keep the document in layout view, scroll to the table of contents, then click on the page
number for the program you wish to review. This will take you directly to that entry. If you then wish to
learn more, click on the agency’s website address (URL), which you will find near the bottom of the
entry. If clicking doesn’t work, copy the URL, paste it into the address line of your web browser, and type
return.
Before starting any application, check the agency website. Humanities and area studies centers sometimes
have shifting themes and agency programs; application requirements, deadlines, and focus areas are
subject to change. Verify deadlines and other critical information by visiting the sponsoring institution’s
website or contacting the agency via e-mail or telephone prior to beginning an application. This is
especially true for agencies that had not posted new deadlines when we updated this list (we’ve noted
such cases on the list).
Most agencies have deadlines only once each year and take from three to six months to announce results.
Therefore, think long-term when planning your grant/fellowship application strategies. Preparing a viable
proposal takes effort, organization, and effective time management, so please do give yourself the time
you will need to develop a competitive proposal. For fellowships, that means starting the process at least
eight weeks before the deadline, preferably longer; for institutional proposals it is at least six months
before the deadline. Please also keep in mind that the internal deadline is one workweek (five working
days) prior to the agency’s deadline.
Although this opportunities list is extensive, it is not exhaustive. If you know of sources we have not
included, which you believe will appeal to a broad spectrum of humanities and social sciences faculty
members, please let us know. We’re always seeking to add viable new funding sources to this list.
Please contact us to discuss the funding possibilities that seem to meet your needs. We will be happy to
work with you to develop a personal grant development plan and application timeline. We look forward
to helping you to develop your external fellowship and grant applications.
Humanities Grant Development Office
Kathy Porsch, Grant Development Officer
kporsch@ku.edu - 785/864-7834
John Schneiderwind, Grant Development and Management Specialist
jschneiderwind@ku.edu - 786/864-7833
John Biersack, Research Development Graduate Assistant or
Phillip Fox, Research Development Graduate Assistant
hgdo@ku.edu - 785/864-7887
http://www.hallcenter.ku.edu/grants/development/index.shtml
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Table of Contents
INDIVIDUAL AWARDS IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES .........................................................................................3
AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES (ACLS) DIGITAL INNOVATION FELLOWSHIPS ....................................3
COUNCIL ON LIBRARY AND INFORMATION RESOURCES (CLIR) POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN ACADEMIC
LIBRARIES ..................................................................................................................................................................3
ILLINOIS PROGRAM FOR RESEARCH IN THE HUMANITIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP ......3
TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS IN THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES ..............................................3
MARK STEINBERG WEIL EARLY CAREER FELLOWSHIP IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN
ST. LOUIS ...................................................................................................................................................................4
INSTITUTIONAL AWARDS IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES ..................................................................................4
EMC HERITAGE TRUST PROJECT ...............................................................................................................................4
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION ..........................................................................................4
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES ........................................................................................................5
America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations: Planning and Implementation Grants ..................................5
America’s Media Makers: Development and Production Grants .........................................................................5
DFG/NEH Bilateral Digital Humanities Program: Enriching Digital Collections ..............................................6
Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants .....................................................................................................................6
Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities ....................................................................................6
National Digital Newspaper Program ..................................................................................................................7
Preservation and Access Research and Development ..........................................................................................7
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION .............................................................................................................................7
Community-based Data Interoperability Networks (INTEROP) .........................................................................7
CreativeIT .............................................................................................................................................................8
Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) ................................................................................................8
Cyberlearning: Transforming Education ..............................................................................................................9
Social-Computational Systems (SoCS) ................................................................................................................9
Software Development for Cyberinfrastructure (SDIC) ..................................................................................... 10
Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2) ..................................................................................... 10
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Individual Awards in Digital Humanities
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Digital Innovation Fellowships
This program supports digitally based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and
humanities-related social sciences. It is hoped that projects of successful applicants will help advance
digital humanistic scholarship by broadening understanding of its nature and exemplifying the robust
infrastructure necessary for creating further such works. ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships are
intended to support an academic year dedicated to work on a major scholarly project that takes a digital
form. ACLS will award up to six digital innovation Fellowships in the competition year, including
projects on which two scholars are collaborating. Collaborating scholars should apply separately and
indicate that their project is collaborative. Each fellowship carries a stipend of up to $60,000 towards an
academic year’s leave and provides for project costs of up to $25,000. ACLS Digital Innovation
Fellowships are intended as salary replacement and may be held concurrently with other fellowships and
grants and any sabbatical pay up to an amount equal to the candidates’ current academic year salary.
URL: http://www.acls.org/grants/Default.aspx?id=508&linkidentifier=id&itemid=508
DEADLINE: September 26
Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Postdoctoral Fellowship in Academic
Libraries
This program prepares a new generation of librarians and scholars for work at the intersections of
scholarship, teaching and librarianship in the emerging research environment. CLIR Postdoctoral Library
Fellows work on projects that exploit current information technology to forge, renovate, and strengthen
connections between academic library collections and their users. The program offers scholars the chance
to develop new research models, collaborate with information specialists, and explore new career
opportunities. Participating libraries benefit from the expertise of accomplished scholars who can
invigorate approaches to collection use and teaching, contribute field-specific knowledge, and provide
insight into the future of scholarship.
URL: http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/postdoc.html
DEADLINE: December 19 (last known deadline)
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Digital Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellowship
The jointly-appointed Post-Doctoral Fellow/Visiting Assistant Professor will undertake, publish, and
present research; teach one course in the appropriate humanities department on a relevant topic to be
negotiated; and collaborate with others on the University of Illinois campus to strengthen informatics
engagement in the humanities. The fellowship comes with a stipend of $45,000 for the year, a $2,000
research account, project development support, relocation reimbursement up to $1,500, and benefits.
URL: http://www.iprh.illinois.edu/guidelines/digitalhumanities/default.aspx
DEADLINE: February 11 (last known deadline)
Trinity College Dublin Research Fellowships in the Arts and Humanities
Applicants for the Visiting Research Fellowships and the Post-doctoral Research Fellowship should
demonstrate how they would spend their time working one or more of the many rich collections within
the Library, and/or collaborating with named individuals or groups of individuals within the arts and
humanities at TCD. Applications are welcome from across the entire range of arts and humanities
research, but the Trinity Long Room Hub wishes particularly to encourage applications in the following
areas of research: children’s literature; art; the creative arts; creativity and the city; digital humanities;
medical humanities; and South Asian studies.
URL: http://www.tcd.ie/longroomhub/Fellowships/
DEADLINE: March 18 (last known deadline)
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Mark Steinberg Weil Early Career Fellowship in Digital Humanities at Washington University in St.
Louis
The Humanities Digital Workshop at Washington University in St. Louis invites applications for a threeyear early-career fellowship in digital humanities, to begin July 1, 2012. We seek scholars with expertise
in any of a broad range of humanities topics and methods -- quantitative history, network analysis, topicmodeling, statistical approaches to book history, lexicography, computer-assisted stylistics, textprocessing, or human-computer interaction. The fellow’s research program should employ analysis of
digitized texts or data to extend or contest current understandings of literary, political, social, or cultural
history. Candidates must have completed their doctorates after 2008, and must have completed all
requirements for the Ph.D. before July 1, 2012. The HDW fellow is expected to pursue her or his own
research, but will also join the research team of one or more of the projects currently supported by the
HDW; the Fellow is expected to participate in the intellectual life of the HDW as well as of other units
relevant to the Fellow’s research interests. Teaching responsibilities include a course each Fall and Spring
semester, as well as supervision of a small number of students. Some courses may be centered in the
Fellow’s substantive discipline; others may straddle disciplines, but with a methodological focus in digital
scholarship. Fellows are expected to be in residence during the entire fellowship period, apart from
research-related travel. Fellows will receive a salary of $60,000 per year, plus Washington University
postdoctoral benefits; and a $5,000 annual research/travel stipend.
URL: http://hdw.artsci.wustl.edu/weilfellowship
DEADLINE: March 1 (last known deadline)
Institutional Awards in Digital Humanities
Note: An institutional award is any award that requires your institution to sign-off on the award
prior to submission or that requires the institution to submit the award on your behalf. These
awards require review and approval by the KU Center for Research, Inc. (KUCR), and the final
materials must be submitted to KUCR at least 5 working days before the application deadline.
EMC Heritage Trust Project
The EMC Heritage Trust Project recognizes and supports digital stewardship of the world's information
heritage in local communities. EMC seeks people and projects that practice and inspire stewardship
locally. The awards consist of cash grants from $5,000 to $15,000. The award recipients are selected
based on the following criteria: potential size of the audience that would benefit from access to this
information; the at-risk status of the information and why it is urgent to digitize it; and how beneficial the
EMC grant would be to the project.
URL: http://www.emc.com/heritage_trust
DEADLINE: March 31 (last known deadline)
National Archives and Research Administration
Digitizing Historical Records
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission seeks proposals that use cost-effective
methods to digitize nationally significant historical record collections and make the digital versions freely
available online. Projects must make use of existing holdings of historical repositories and consist of
entire collections or series. The materials should already be available to the public at the archives and
described so that projects can re-use existing information to serve as metadata for the digitized collection.
A grant normally is for 1 to 3 years and up to $150,000.
URL: http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/announcement/digitizing.html
DEADLINE: June 11 (last known deadline)
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National Endowment for the Humanities
America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations: Planning and Implementation Grants
America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations grants support projects in the humanities that
explore stories, ideas, and beliefs that deepen our understanding of our lives and our world. The
Division of Public Programs supports the development of humanities content and interactivity that
excite, inform, and stir thoughtful reflection upon culture, identity, and history in creative and new
ways. Grants for America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations should encourage dialogue,
discussion, and civic engagement, and they should foster learning among people of all ages. To that
end, the Division of Public Programs urges applicants to consider more than one format for
presenting humanities ideas to the public. NEH offers two categories of grants for America’s
Historical and Cultural Organizations: Planning and Implementation Grants. Planning grants are
available for projects that may need further development before applying for implementation. This
planning can include the identification and refinement of the project’s main humanities ideas and
questions, consultation with scholars in order to strengthen the humanities content, preliminary
audience evaluation, preliminary design of the proposed interpretive formats, beta testing of digital
formats, development of complementary programming, research at archives or sites whose resources
might be used, or the drafting of interpretive materials. Implementation grants support the final
preparation of a project for presentation to the public. Applicants must submit a full walkthrough for
an exhibition, or a prototype or storyboard for a digital project, that demonstrates a solid command of
the humanities ideas and scholarship that relate to the subject. Applicants for implementation grants
should have already done most of the planning for their projects, including the identification of the
key humanities themes, relevant scholarship, and program formats. For exhibitions, implementation
grants can support the final stages of design development, but these grants are primarily intended for
installation. Applicants are not required to obtain a planning grant before applying for an
implementation grant. Applicants may not, however, submit multiple applications for the same
project at the same deadline.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/public/americas-historical-and-cultural-organizations-planninggrants
http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/AHCO_ImplementationGuidelines.html
DEADLINE: January 8
America’s Media Makers: Development and Production Grants
Grants for America’s Media Makers support projects in the humanities that explore stories, ideas, and
beliefs that deepen our understanding of our lives and our world. Grants for America’s Media Makers
should encourage dialogue, discussion, and civic engagement, and they should foster learning among
people of all ages. To that end, the Division of Public Programs urges applicants to consider more
than one format for presenting humanities ideas to the public.
NEH offers two categories of grants for media projects: Development Grants and Production Grants.
Development grants enable media producers to collaborate with scholars to develop humanities
content and format and to prepare programs for production. These grants cover a wide range of
activities that include, but are not limited to, meetings and individual consultations with scholars,
research, preliminary interviews, preparation of program scripts, designs for interactivity and digital
distribution, and the creation of partnerships for outreach activities and public engagement with the
humanities. Development grants should culminate in the refinement of a project’s humanities ideas, a
script, or a design document for (or a prototype of) digital media components or projects. Before
applying, applicants must have a solid command of the major humanities scholarship on their subject,
have clarified the ideas that the project will consider, and have consulted with a team of scholarly
advisers to work out the intellectual issues that the program will explore. Applicants must also have
made preliminary decisions about the format and storyline and located essential materials for the
program(s). Finally, they must have recruited the appropriate media professionals, especially the
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producer, writer, or interactive designer. Production grants support the preparation of a program for
distribution. Applicants must submit a script for a radio or television program, or a prototype or
storyboard for a digital media project, that demonstrates a solid command of the humanities ideas and
scholarship related to a subject.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/AmMediaMakers_development.html
http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/AmMediaMakers_production.html
DEADLINE: January 8
DFG/NEH Bilateral Digital Humanities Program: Enriching Digital Collections
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in the United States and the German Research
Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V., DFG) are working together to offer support for
digitization projects in the humanities. These grants provide funding for up to three years of
development in any of the following areas: new digitization projects and pilot projects; the addition of
important materials to existing digitization projects; and the development of tools and infrastructure
to enhance the use of digitized resources and support international digitization work. Collaboration
between U.S. and German partners is a key requirement for this grant category. Each application must
be sponsored by at least one eligible German individual (with an institutional affiliation) or
institution, and at least one U.S. institution, and there must be a project director from each country.
The partners will collaborate to write a single application package. The U.S. partner will submit the
package to NEH via Grants.gov, and the German partner will submit it to DFG via regular postal
service.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/nehdfg-bilateral-digital-humanities-program
DEADLINE: September 27 (last known deadline: Competition suspended for FY 2014)
Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants
These institutional grants are intended to foster new collaborations and advance the role of cultural
repositories in online teaching, learning, and research, this program is co-sponsored by the Institute of
Museum and Library Services (IMLS). NEH and IMLS encourage library and museum officials as
well as scholars, scientists, educational institutions, and other non-profit organizations to apply for
these grants and to collaborate when appropriate. Innovation is a hallmark of this grant category. All
applicants must propose an innovative approach, method, tool, or idea that has not been used before
in the humanities. These grants are modeled, in part, on the “high risk/high reward ” paradigm often
used by funding agencies in the sciences. NEH is requesting proposals for projects that take some
risks in the pursuit of innovation and excellence. Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants should result in
plans, prototypes, or proofs of concept for long-term digital humanities projects prior to
implementation. Two levels of awards are made in this program. Level I awards are small grants
designed to fund brainstorming sessions, workshops, early alpha-level prototypes, and initial
planning. Level II awards are larger grants that can be used for more fully-formed projects that are
ready to start the first stage of implementation or the creation of working prototypes.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/digitalhumanitiesstartup.html
DEADLINE: September 12
Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities
These institutional grants support national or regional (multi-state) training programs on approaches
in humanities computing. NEH strongly encourages applicants to develop proposals for
multidisciplinary teams of co-applicants, partners, and collaborators that will offer the necessary
range of intellectual, technical, and practical expertise. This program is designed to bring together
humanities scholars, advanced graduate students, computer scientists, and others to learn new tools
and technologies and to foster relationships for future collaborations in the humanities. Partners and
collaborators may be drawn from the private and public sectors and include appropriate specialists
from within and outside the US. The purpose is to increase the number of humanities scholars using
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digital technology in their research and broadly disseminate knowledge about advanced technology
applications relevant to the humanities. The objectives are to: bring together humanities scholars and
digital technology specialists from different disciplines to share ideas and methods that advance
humanities research through the use of digital technologies, reflect on, interpret, and analyze new
digital media, multimedia, and text-based computing technologies and integrate these into humanities
research, prepare current and future generations of humanities scholars to design, develop, and use
cyber-based tools and environments for research, and devise new and creative uses for technology
that offer valuable models that can be applied specifically to research in the humanities. The projects
may be a single opportunity or offered multiple times to different audiences, although the duration of
a program should allow for full and thorough treatment of the topic.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/IATDH.html
DEADLINE: March 11
National Digital Newspaper Program
NEH is soliciting proposals from institutions to participate in the National Digital Newspaper
Program (NDNP). NDNP is creating a national, digital resource of historically significant newspapers
published between 1836 and 1922, from all the states and U.S. territories. This searchable database
will be permanently maintained at the Library of Congress (LC) and be freely accessible via the
Internet. NEH intends to support projects in all states and U.S. territories, provided that sufficient
funds allocated for this purpose are available. One organization within each U.S. state or territory
will receive an award to collaborate with relevant state partners in this effort. Previously funded
projects will be eligible for continued support, but the program will give priority to new projects.
Applications that involve collaboration between previously funded and new projects are welcome.
Such collaborations might involve, for example, arranging with current awardees to manage the
creation and delivery of digital files; offering regular and ongoing consultation on managing aspects
of the project; or providing formal training for project staff at an onsite institute or workshop.
Successful applicants will select newspapers—published in their state or territory in English
between 1836 and 1922—and convert, primarily from microfilm, over a period of two years,
approximately 100,000 pages into digital files.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/ndnp.html
DEADLINE: January 15
Preservation and Access Research and Development
Preservation and Access Research and Development grants support projects that address major
challenges in preserving or providing access to humanities collections and resources. These
challenges include the need to find better ways to preserve materials of critical importance to the
nation’s cultural heritage—from fragile artifacts and manuscripts to analog recordings and digital
assets subject to technological obsolescence—and to develop advanced modes of searching,
discovering, and using such materials. Project results must serve the needs of a significant segment of
humanists.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/PARD.html
DEADLINE: May 1
National Science Foundation
Community-based Data Interoperability Networks (INTEROP)
NOTE: This program has been archived
Digital data are increasingly both the products of research and the starting point for new research and
education activities. The ability to re-purpose data – to use it in innovative ways and combinations
not envisioned by those who created the data – requires that it be possible to find and understand data
of many types and from many sources. Interoperability (the ability of two or more systems or
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components to exchange information and to use the information that has been exchanged) is
fundamental to meeting this requirement. This NSF crosscutting program supports community
efforts to provide for broad interoperability through the development of mechanisms such as robust
data and metadata conventions, ontologies, and taxonomies. Support is provided for Data
Interoperability Networks that will be responsible for consensus-building activities and for providing
the expertise necessary to turn the consensus into technical standards with associated implementation
tools and resources. Examples of the former are community workshops, web resources such as
community interaction sites, and task groups. Examples of the latter are information sciences,
software development, and ontology and taxonomy design and implementation.
URL:
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=502112&org=SBE&sel_org=SBE&from=fund
DEADLINE: July 23 (last known deadline)
CreativeIT
NOTE: This program has been archived
The CreativeIT Program solicits proposals for projects that explore synergistic cross disciplinary
research in creativity and computer science and information technology. Information technology is
playing an increasing role in extending the capability of human creative thinking and problem
solving. The study of creativity and computing as a way to advance computer science and information
technology, cognitive science, engineering, education, or science can lead to new models of creativity
and creative computational processes, innovative approaches to education that encourage creativity,
innovative modes of research that include creative professionals, and new technology to support
human creativity.
URL:
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501096&org=SBE&sel_org=SBE&from=fund
DEADLINE: October 13 (last known deadline)
Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI)
NOTE: This program has been archived
Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) is NSF’s bold five-year initiative to create
revolutionary science and engineering research outcomes made possible by innovations and advances
in computational thinking. Computational thinking is defined comprehensively to encompass
computational concepts, methods, models, algorithms, and tools. Applied in challenging science and
engineering research and education contexts, computational thinking promises a profound impact on
the Nation’s ability to generate and apply new knowledge. Collectively, CDI research outcomes are
expected to produce paradigm shifts in our understanding of a wide range of science and engineering
phenomena and socio-technical innovations that create new wealth and enhance the national quality
of life. With an emphasis on bold multidisciplinary activities that, through computational thinking,
promise radical, paradigm-changing research findings, CDI promotes transformative research within
NSF. Accordingly, investigators are encouraged to come together in the development of far-reaching,
high-risk science and engineering research and education agendas that capitalize on innovations in,
and/or innovative use of, computational thinking. Research and education efforts around the world
are beginning to address various aspects of the CDI themes, and CDI projects are expected to build
upon productive intellectual partnerships involving investigators from academe, industry and/or other
types of organizations, including international entities, that advance CDI objectives within the rapidly
evolving global context.
URL:
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503163&org=SBE&sel_org=SBE&from=fund
DEADLINE: January 19 (Type I Proposals) or January 20 (Type II Proposals) (last known
deadline for both)
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Cyberlearning: Transforming Education
Through the Cyberlearning: Transforming Education program, NSF seeks to integrate advances in
technology with advances in what is known about how people learn to: better understand how people
learn with technology and how technology can be used productively to help people learn, through
individual use and/or through collaborations mediated by technology; better use technology for
collecting, analyzing, sharing, and managing data to shed light on learning, promoting learning, and
designing learning environments; and design new technologies for these purposes, and advance
understanding of how to use those technologies and integrate them into learning environments so that
their potential is fulfilled. Of particular interest are technological advances that allow more
personalized learning experiences, draw in and promote learning among those in populations not
currently served well by current educational practices, allow access to learning resources anytime and
anywhere, and provide new ways of assessing capabilities. It is expected that Cyberlearning research
will shed light on how technology can enable new forms of educational practice and that broad
implementation of its findings will result in a more actively-engaged and productive citizenry and
workforce. Cyberlearning awards will be made in three categories: Exploration Projects (EXP
projects) explore the proof-of-concept or feasibility of a novel or innovative technology or use of
such technology to promote learning. EXP projects might explore how existing technologies can be
used to promote learning or explore the affordances of a new or existing technology for learning
purposes (the opportunities for engaging in learning that it makes possible). Design and
Implementation Projects (DIP projects) will conduct research in the everyday environments in which
people spend their lives, e.g., schools, homes, museums, parks, and the workplace. These projects
might advance understanding about how to more broadly or productively use technology that holds
promise or how to coherently integrate several technological innovations that hold promise.
Integration and Deployment Projects (INDP Projects) should also be carried out in the everyday
environments in which people spend their lives, and like other types of projects, they will answer
questions about learning and about design of technology. These projects will build on research that
has already shown the promise of some technology or set of technologies for promoting learning or
advancing our understanding of learning. These projects might advance understanding of how to
more broadly or productively use technology that holds promise or how to coherently integrate
several technological innovations that hold promise.
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11587/nsf11587.htm
DEADLINE: Various, check the website
Social-Computational Systems (SoCS)
NOTE: This program has been archived
The Social-Computational Systems (SoCS) program seeks to reveal new understanding about the
properties that systems of people and computers together possess, and to develop a practical
understanding of the purposeful design of systems to facilitate socially intelligent computing. By
better characterizing, understanding, and eventually designing for desired behaviors arising from
computationally mediated groups of people at all scales, new forms of knowledge creation, new
models of computation, new forms of culture, and new types of interaction will result. Further, the
investigation of such systems and their emergent behaviors and desired properties will inform the
design of future systems. The SoCS program will support research in socially intelligent computing
arising from human-computer partnerships that range in scale from a single person and computer to
an Internet-scale array of machines and people. The program seeks to create new knowledge about
the capabilities these partnerships can demonstrate - new affordances and new emergent behaviors, as
well as unanticipated consequences and fundamental limits. The program also seeks to foster new
ideas that support even greater capabilities for socially intelligent computing, such as the design and
development of systems reflecting explicit knowledge about people's cognitive and social abilities,
new models of collective, social, and participatory computing, and new algorithms that leverage the
specific abilities of massive numbers of human participants. The SoCS program seeks to capitalize
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upon the collaborative knowledge and research methods of investigators in the computational and
human sciences, recognizing that researchers in computer science and related disciplines often focus
on the limits and capabilities of computation in isolation from the people that use computation, while
researchers in the social sciences often focus on the use of technology or the capabilities of people
with limited impact on how such knowledge can influence the design of new technologies. Proposals
that reflect collaborative efforts spanning computational and human centered approaches and
perspectives are specifically encouraged.
URL:
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503406&org=SBE&sel_org=SBE&from=fund
DEADLINE: November 11 (last known deadline)
Software Development for Cyberinfrastructure (SDIC)
The purpose of the Software Development for Cyberinfrastructure (SDCI) program is to develop,
deploy, and sustain a set of reusable and expandable software components and systems that benefit a
broad set of science and engineering applications. SDCI is a continuation of the NSF Middleware
Initiative (NMI) in an expanded context appropriate to the current expanded vision of
cyberinfrastructure. This program supports software development across five major software areas:
system software and tools for High Performance Computing (HPC) environments; software
promoting NSF's strategic vision for digital data; network software to support distributed software,
software in the form of middleware capabilities and services, and cybersecurity. SDCI funds software
activities for enhancing scientific productivity and for facilitating research and education
collaborations through sharing of data, instruments, and computing and storage resources. The
program requires open source software development.
URL:
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5174&org=OCI&sel_org=OCI&from=fund
DEADLINE: January 30 (last known deadline)
Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2)
Computation is accepted as the third pillar supporting innovation and discovery in science and
engineering and is central to NSF's future vision of Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century
Science and Engineering (CF21). Software is an integral part of the computation paradigm and a
primary modality for realizing the CF21 vision. Scientific discovery and innovation are advancing
fundamentally new pathways opened by development of increasingly sophisticated software.
Software is also directly responsible for increased scientific productivity and significant enhancement
of researchers' capabilities. In order to nurture, accelerate and sustain this critical mode of scientific
progress, NSF is establishing a new program, Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2),
with the overarching goal of transforming innovations in research and education into sustained
software resources that are an integral part of the cyberinfrastructure. SI2 is a long-term investment
focused on catalyzing new thinking, paradigms, and practices in using software to understand natural,
human, and engineered systems. SI2's intent is to foster a pervasive cyberinfrastructure to help
researchers address problems of unprecedented scale, complexity, resolution, and accuracy by
integrating computation, data, networking and experiments in novel ways. It is NSF's expectation that
SI2 investment will result in robust, reliable, usable and sustainable software infrastructure that is
critical to the CF21 vision and will transform science and engineering.
URL:
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503489&org=SBE&sel_org=SBE&from=fund
DEADLINE: February 4 (last known deadline)
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