Funding

Grants (CAD $2,861,294 total; CAD $2,477,041 as PI)
(USD/GBP amounts shown with CAD equivalents as provided.)

As Principal Investigator (PI)

• SSHRC Insight — “Digital Terror: The September 11th, 2001 Attacks Online.” CAD $75,543. 2025–2029.
• SSHRC Connection — “Building an Inter-Institutional and Cross-Functional Research Data Management Community: From Strategy to Implementation.” PI: Ian Milligan; Co-I: Alison Hitchens, Jennifer Abel. CAD $22,258. 2023–2024.
• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation — “Integrating Archives Unleashed Cloud with Archive-It.” PI: Ian Milligan; Co-I: Jimmy Lin, Nick Ruest, Jefferson Bailey. CAD $1,084,087. 2020–2023.
• UW AI Institute & Microsoft (AI for Social Good) — “MANNERSS: Multilingual Adaptation for NER in the Social Sciences.” PI: Ian Milligan; Co-I: Jimmy Lin. CAD $25,000. 2020–2021.
• SSHRC Insight — “Averting the Digital Dark Age: The Digital Preservation Movement, 1991–2001.” CAD $97,602. 2020–2023.
• SSHRC Connection — “Workshop on Quantitative Analysis and the Digital Turn in Historical Studies.” PI: Ian Milligan; Co-I: Chad Gaffield. CAD $11,779. 2018–2019.
• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation — “Archives Unleashed Project.” PI: Ian Milligan; Co-PIs: Nick Ruest, Jimmy Lin. CAD $610,625. 2017–2020.
• Microsoft Research — Microsoft Azure Research Award (“Web Archives for Longitudinal Knowledge”). CAD $26,804 (USD $20,000). 2016–2017.
• Compute Canada — Research Platforms & Portals (“Web Archives for Longitudinal Knowledge”). PI: Ian Milligan; Co-I: Nick Ruest. CAD $11,635. 2016–2019.
• SSHRC Insight — “A Longitudinal Analysis of the Canadian World Wide Web as a Historical Resource, 1996–2014.” PI: Ian Milligan; Co-Is: Nick Ruest, William Turkel. CAD $257,541. 2015–2020.
• Ontario MRI — Early Researcher Award (“A Longitudinal Analysis of the Canadian World Wide Web as a Historical Resource, 1996–2014”). CAD $150,000. 2015–2020.
• SSHRC Connection — “Unlock Your Web Archives Hackathon.” PI: Ian Milligan; Co-Is: Jimmy Lin, Matthew Weber, Nathalie Casemajor, Nicholas Worby. CAD $23,715. 2015–2016.
• SSHRC Insight Development — “An Infinite Archive?” PI: Ian Milligan; Co-I: William Turkel. CAD $74,952. 2013–2015.
• UW / SSHRC Institutional Block Grant. PI: Ian Milligan. CAD $5,500. 2013–2015.

As Partner / Co-Investigator

• IMLS — Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (“Continuing Education to Advance Web Archiving”). PIs: Zhiwu Xie, Edward Fox; Partners: LANL Research Library, ODU Computer Science, University of Waterloo (History), Internet Archive, GWU Libraries. CAD $314,824 (USD $248,451). 2018–2020.
• AHRC (UK) — “Born-Digital Data and Methods for History and the Humanities.” PI: Jane Winters; Co-I: Tobias Blanke; Partners: The National Archives (UK), University of Cambridge, University of Sussex, British Library, University of Waterloo (Ian Milligan), Webster Research & Consulting. CAD $60,125 (£32,210). 2016–2017.
• SSHRC Connection — “New Directions in Active History: Institutions, Communication, and Technologies.” PI: Thomas Peace; Co-Is: Ian Milligan, Jim Clifford, Daniel Ross, Kaleigh Bradley, Krista McCracken, Andrew Nurse. CAD $19,304. 2015–2016.