NFDI4Culture Metadata API

Dear colleagues,

This year's Joint Conference TEIMEC will connect both coding communities, TEI and MEI, for the first time and will take place in Paderborn.
The Music Encoding Initiative and NFDI4Culture are pleased to support this special conference with eight travel grants. The Music Encoding Initiative supports researchers with five grants, NFDI4Culture with three, these three travel grants are realised within the framework of the community measures of the disciplines Media Studies, Musicology and Art History in NFDI4Culture.
The travel grants will be awarded in the maximum amount of €500 each.
Reimbursement of travel costs (travel, accommodation, conference fee) will be made after the conference (after the submission of receipts).

Conditions

1. Students
Students of the humanities or digital humanities with a reasoned or proven interest in the digital humanities and the coding, annotation and modelling of research data are eligible to apply. It is also possible to apply without making a contribution at the conference.

2. PhD students
PhD students working on individual or group projects in the field of Digital Humanities related to coding, annotation and modelling of research data and whose conference submission has been accepted are eligible to apply. To apply, a contribution must have been successfully submitted to the conference.

3. Postdoc
Postdocs working on individual or group projects in the field of Digital Humanities related to coding, annotation and modelling of research data and whose conference submission has been accepted are eligible to apply. To apply, a contribution must have been successfully submitted to the conference.

Reporting (all applicant groups):

The grant holders commit themselves to report on their experiences during the conference or at the latest four weeks after the end of the conference. Suitable forms of reporting include blog posts, taking over the conference Twitter/Mastodon account on a daily or section-by-section basis, photo or other multimedia documentation and short conference reports via other media channels. Other creative forms of presentation and publication are highly welcome and can be considered after consultation. An orientation towards the project and dissemination activities of NFDI4Culture, MEI or TEI is desirable.

Selection criteria and process

1. Students

• Fit to the call for applications
• Interest in the Digital Humanities expressed in the letter of motivation
• Proposal for media coverage of the conference 

2. PhD students

• Quality of the submission (result of the review)
• Commitment to the Digital Humanities
• Letter of motivation (detailed, 1 page for application without own contribution)
• Proposal for media coverage of the conference

3. Postdocs

• Quality of the submission (result of the review)
• Commitment to the Digital Humanities
• Letter of motivation
• Proposal for media coverage of the conference

Application and selection

Applications can be submitted until 25 July 2023. The application documents should contain (in a PDF file) the following:

• tabular CV of max. 1 page
• max. 1-page explanatory letter of motivation
• brief outline of ideas for media coverage of the confernce (approx. ½ page)
• for doctoral students and postdocs: proposal of the accepted contribution including the reviews

Please send your application via e-mail to: coordination-office@nfdi4culture.de.

If you have any questions about the travel grants for junior researchers and students, please also contact: coordination-office@nfdi4culture.de.

The selection of grantees will be made jointly by representatives of the subject communities in accordance with the project objectives of NFDI4Culture. The travel funds associated with the scholarships are restricted to the participation at the TEIMEC conference. There is no entitlement to the travel funds associated with the travel grants. By applying, the applicant declares that they have read and agree to these terms and conditions of participation.

Notification

The grant holders will presumably be notified by the beginning of August 2023 and informed about the further details concerning the modalities of the awarding.

Data protection

The personal data of the applicants will be processed on the basis of the data protection declaration of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur | Mainz and exclusively for the purpose of carrying out the selection process under the stated conditions. If you have any questions regarding data protection in the context of the scholarships, please contact the Academy's Data Protection Officer (datenschutz@adwmainz.de). 

Exclusion of liability and exclusion of legal recourse

The Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur | Mainz, as the sponsor of the NFDI4Culture project, reserves the right to change the conditions of participation for the call for applications at any time. The call for applications and the awarding of the scholarships may be cancelled or terminated at any time without prior notice and without giving reasons. The Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur | Mainz accepts no liability for lost opportunities to participate due to technical malfunctions or other reasons. Legal recourse is excluded. In the event of a contradiction between the German version of these conditions of participation and a translation, the German version shall prevail.