CALL ANNOUNCEMENT: Exposing Digital Content for Education and Research

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London, University of London Student Union.  Today at the #Linkeddata #London meetup JISC announced that a Call will be issued in March requesting bids for projects to make content available on the Web working using linked data approaches.

To note, the above announced call was originally labelled on the JISC funding Roadmap as “Innovative ways to Deposit, Expose and Discover Web Resources”.  The original grant funding call was planned for issue in early January but due to the funding letter from DBIS to HEFCE on 22 December 2009 it was put on hold whilst funding implications were assessed.  At the HEFCE Board meeting in late January the decisions regarding the  final impacts on current capital budgets were agreed.   As a result of this the grant funding Call will now go ahead, albeit with a changed scope and a lower budget, it’s emphasis will still be upon deposit and exposure of content.  The re-scoped Call is summarised below.  We aim to have this call out in March and there will be a six week bid preparation period.

Strand Title Description Total £ Max £ per project Range £ per project Max number of projects Max Duration
B Expose Projects that enable content to be made available on the Web using structured data, in particular linked data which increases its potential value to researchers, teachers and learners. £750,000 £100,000 £10-£100k 20 12 months

As soon as this call is approved by policy we will announce that the call is live and that we welcome proposals.  If you have any queries in the meantime please contact d.flanders@jisc.ac.uk for further information.

This Call strand will also be released with the Deposit strand of the Call.  Please see separate post for further information about the Deposit Call.

February 24, 2010 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Author David F. Flanders 

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  1. Musings on Linked Data stuff « Matt Jukes on March 1st, 2010 8:26 pm

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