The Japanese Visual Media Graph project is funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG). The first grant was for a period of 36 months and the funding program allows for a second grant to continue the project.
We applied for the continuation grant in 2022 and in early June 2023, we received the notice of approval. The reviewers lauded the project idea and the results of the first project phase.
Together with our new partners, the International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW) and the Library of the University of Tübingen, we will focus on consolidating and further disseminating the results of the first phase. We plan to include more data sources, conduct joint research with multiple international collaborators and refine the technological foundations of our services. A series of hands-on workshops and comprehensive documentation materials will support students and researchers who want to explore the data in their own work.
We are looking forward to continuing the project work for another three years.
