D2I Call for Digital Arts and Humanities Research Proposals - Due October 19, 2010

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The Data to Insight Center of the Pervasive Technology Institute and the Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities (IDAH) have aligned in announcing a call for proposals for 2011 IDAH Fellows who engage in collaborative research involving the computer and information sciences and the digital arts and humanities at Indiana University Bloomington.

Competitive proposals will address an aspect of digital arts and humanities such as but not limited to extensible infrastructure for creating or displaying digital arts, humanities data to insight including visualization, developing innovative digital collections, developing new methods of analyzing text, language, semantics or syntax. Successful proposals will be collaborative projects with one or more PIs from the computing sciences and one or more PIs from the humanities. The grants are intended to support the early development of innovative research likely to compete favorably for competitive external funding in the future and/or produce translational deliverables such as new software, a demonstration collection, or other tangible output that advances the goals of the Data to Insight Center. Recipients are required to write semi-annual reports, participate in joint bi-weekly seminars with the Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities fellows and present results of research upon completion.

Proposals will be reviewed by a panel of peers. Proposals should be clear, direct, specific, and written in a way that can be understood by experts outside your field.

Funding/Eligibility
Funding is available for one year, although applicants are welcome to apply again for continuing support. D2I expects to award up to 2 grants this year. No proposal or project (no matter how many applications it is divided into) should seek more than $50,000 in any one year.

An individual may be an investigator in no more than two proposals that respond to this solicitation. Funds may be requested by faculty, professional staff, or other full-time employees of IUB. Proposals may involve collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, but only the expenses incurred by IU personnel or services rendered at IUB are eligible for support.

The awards are being supported by a grant from the Lilly Endowment, Inc.

Time Line

Solicitation Announcement:	August, 2010
Proposals Due:	October 19, 2010 by 9:00 AM
Awards Announced:	Mid-November
Start Date:	January 1, 2011

Application Process
Applicants should use the cover sheet and budget template provided by D2I. The budget template is based on one prepared by the IU Office of the Vice President for Research but has been modified to permit greater support for graduate students. Otherwise, it follows standard IU policies for internal competitions including no course releases and no indirect costs.

Proposal is a single pdf file consisting of:
- Cover sheet [PDF Version] [Word Version]
- Short summary and description of proposed project - no longer than 4 pages
- Short biography of each investigator (simple paragraph or format accepted to agencies such as NSF/NIH)
- Budget using the template provided by D2I [xls Template]
- Budget narrative of one page or less (information helpful to reviewers in understanding the project budget)
Budget (please include the budget as part of the application pdf and also in .xls or .xlsx format)
Submit to d2igrant [at] indiana [dot] edu no later than 9:00 am on October 19, 2010.

Questions are welcome and should be directed to Stacy Kowalczyk (skowalcz [at] indiana [dot] edu).