I thought this might be of interest to some folks here Ned --
>>> Clifford Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 5/24/2007 2:20 PM >>> The US National Science Foundation Office of Cyberinfrastructure has just issued a solicitation for proposals for a program titled Community-based Data Interoperability Networks (INTEROP), which is another important step in the agenda of scientific data stewardship and reuse. You can find information about the call here: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=502112&org=OCI&from=home or by following links from the Office of Cyberinfrastructure home page. I've reproduced the summary of the call below. Clifford Lynch Director, CNI ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Digital data are increasingly both the products of research and the starting point for new research and education activities. The ability to re-purpose data - to use it in innovative ways and combinations not envisioned by those who created the data - requires that it be possible to find and understand data of many types and from many sources. Interoperability (the ability of two or more systems or components to exchange information and to use the information that has been exchanged) is fundamental to meeting this requirement. This NSF crosscutting program supports community efforts to provide for broad interoperability through the development of mechanisms such as robust data and metadata conventions, ontologies, and taxonomies. Support is provided for Data Interoperability Networks that will be responsible for consensus-building activities and for providing the expertise necessary to turn the consensus into technical standards with associated implementation tools and resources. Examples of the former are community workshops, web resources such as community interaction sites, and task groups. Examples of the latter are information sciences, software development, and ontology and taxonomy design and implementation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Reply button in your e-mail program sends your reply to the person posting a message, not to the list. ATTENTION Please: if the message to which you are replying is long, please delete as much of it from your reply as possible to reduce message lengths for other List subscribers. Thank You. To contact the list owners: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To leave this list, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW archives: http://indaba.iucn.org/archives/biod_commons/ The username and password are available from [EMAIL PROTECTED] This message was sent to you at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The services and facilities to support this list are provided by The Information Management Group, IUCN, Gland, Switzerland. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
