STEM Challenge - About. Program Announcement: Cognition and Student Learning CFDA 84.305A. 2009 Digging Into Data Award Recipients. The Digging into Data Challenge is an international grant competition sponsored by four leading research agencies, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) from the United Kingdom, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) from the United States, the National Science Foundation (NSF) from the United States, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) from Canada.
What is the "challenge" we speak of? The idea behind the Digging into Data Challenge is to answer the question "what do you do with a million books? " Or a million pages of newspaper? Or a million photographs of artwork?