The Information Environment (and Virtual Research Environment) Call for Proposals November 2008
The JISC is calling for proposals relating to the ‘Information Environment’ and ‘Virtual Research Environments’. This blog post relates only to those elements of the Call relating to the Information Environment, that is Strands A1-A6:
- Automated metadata generation & text mining (JISC contact: Balviar Notay b.notay@jisc.ac.uk or Amber Thomas amber.thomas@jisc.ac.uk)
- Developing e-infrastructure to support research disciplines (JISC contact: Neil Grindley n.grindley@jisc.ac.uk)
- Repositories: start-up (JISC contact: Andy McGregor a.mcgregor@jisc.ac.uk)
- Repositories: rapid innovation (JISC contact: Andy McGregor a.mcgregor@jisc.ac.uk)
- Repositories: enhancement (JISC contact: Neil Jacobs n.jacobs@jisc.ac.uk or Andy McGregor a.mcgregor@jisc.ac.uk)
- Preservation exemplars (JISC contact: Neil Grindley n.grindley@jisc.ac.uk)
There is also an accompanying briefing document which describes important background information, and outlines some requirements that are being placed on repositories that are involved in bids under these headings. The Call itself spells out the aims and intended scope of projects under these headings, so I won’t repeat it all here.
There will be a Briefing Day on 15th December 2008.
The purpose of this blog post is to be the anchor for an FAQ relating to Strands A1-A6 of the Call. If you have queries relating to these strands of the Call, you can contact the relevant JISC person as noted above and in the Call document, or you can add a comment to this blog post. Either way, if the query would be relevant to other bidders then our response will be via a further comment added to this blog post. In this way we hope to build up an FAQ that all potential bidders can access easily and quickly. We’d also welcome comments (or emails) on the use of the blog for this purpose.
Roll up, roll up for the Developer Happiness Days
JISC are sponsoring an event aimed at software developers in HE on February 9th-13th 2009.
The event will consist of training activities, a development competition, community focused events and a whole lot of networking opportunities.
The event will take place in London. Entry will be free and is designed for developers working in all areas of HE. Developers from outside the UK and from the commercial sector are also very welcome to attend. If you aren’t a software developer but are still interested then you may want to come along to learn, network, observe and maybe provide a user perspective for the developers participating in the event.
There is an event blog which has a registration form and some further details http://dev8d.jiscinvolve.org/.
Please sign up if you are interested. There are places for about 200 people.
The blog will be updated with more details of the event in due course.
The event tag is dev8D, please use it when discussing the event.
If you have any questions about the event, please leave a comment on the event blog or email d dot flanders at bbk dot ac dot uk or a dot mcgregor at jisc dot ac dot uk.