Grant Funding Opportunities
An update on funding opportunities …
This month, November 2008, we will be releasing a Call for projects for grant funding. Outline details are on the Grant Funding Roadmap. UK FE/HE institutions are eligible to bid, with some types of projects restricted to HEFCE- and HEFCW- funded institutions, due to funding streams.
We’re finalising the Call at the moment, but you won’t go far wrong if you start thinking about what you want to do in:
- implementing automated metadata and textmining
- starting up repositories for research data, research papers, learning materials
- networking and enhancing repositories
- preservation in relation to repositories
- short technical projects to improve repository services
- connections between services to support particular disciplines
Bidders will have until January to prepare proposals, and succesful projects will be expected to start by 1st April 2009.
For those of you most interested in supporting research, please note there will also be a Call for projects related to Virtual Research Environments.
If learning and teaching resources are of particular interest, in December there will also be a Call for the forthcoming HEA/JISC Open Educational Content programme.
Date for your diary: Monday 15th December will be a Briefing Day for anyone who would like to come and hear about the funding opportunities related to the Information Environment and Virtual Research Environment Calls. It will be in Central London, probably 10-4. Details will be released soon.
If you’re not based in UK FE/HE, you may be interested in the Funding Roadmap for Invitations to Tender. These are open to anyone, so if you think you have expertise relevant to the sort of issues reported on this blog, then tenders are very welcome.
We will announce the Call on this blog as soon as it is released.
Hype curves
I saw a post on Techcrunch about a hype curve for emerging technologies. I won’t reproduce the curve here as I am not sure about the legality of posting it. However, if you go over to techcrunch you can see the curve. I was very surprised to see the position of some of the technologies on the graph and the timeline to entering the mainstream.
For example wikis are behind SOA on the graph and both are 2-5 years from the mainstream. I would have thought that wikis would be ahead of SOA and that wikis had already reached the mainstream. Cloud computing is still in the technology trigger section of the curve and again is 2-5 years from the mainstream. I would have expected cloud computing to be closer to the mainstream.
Unfortunately the original Gartner report is hidden behind a toll barrier so I am not able to read the reasons for the positions of the technologies on the graph at present.
Where would repositories be placed on this curve? And what would be the timeframe for mainstream acceptance? Personally, I would place repositories in the trough of disillusionment and I would hope that they are 2-5 years from the mainstream.