What better way to welcome the freshly rebranded Digital Infrastructure team blog than to announce a new funding call that spans nearly all the activities that the team is involved in.
The call is available now from the JISC site and the deadline for submissions is 12 noon on Monday 21st of November.
The call seeks projects in the following areas:
- Resource Discovery – up to 10 projects to implement the resource discovery taskforce vision by funding higher education libraries archives and museums to make open metadata about their collections available in a sustainable way. Funding up to £250,000 is available for this work.
- Enhancing the Sustainability of Digital Collections – up to10 projects to investigate and measure how effectively action can be taken to increase the prospects of sustainability for specified digital resources. Funding of up to £500,000 is available for this work.
- Research Information Management – 3 projects to explore the feasibility and pilot delivery of a national shared service for the reporting of research information from Research Organisations to funders and other sector agencies, to increase the availability of validated evidence of research impact for research organisations, funders and policy bodies, and to formally evaluate JISC-funded activities in the Research Information Management programme and to gather robust evidence of any benefits accruing to the sector from these activities. Funding of up to £450,000 is available for this work.
- Research Tools – 5 to 10 projects on exploiting technologies and infrastructure in the research process as well as innovating and extending the boundaries to determine the future demands of research on infrastructures. Funding of up to £350,000 is available for this work.
- Applications of the Linking You Toolkit – Up to 10 projects investigating the implementation and improvement of the ‘Linking You Toolkit’ for the purpose of demonstrating the benefits that management of institutional URLS can bring to students, researchers, lecturers and other University staff. Funding of up to £140,000 is available for this work.
- Access and Identity Management – 5 to 10 projects investigating the embedding of Access and Identity Management outputs and technological solutions within institutions. Funding of up to £200,000 is available for this work.
As always, JISC programme managers are keen to speak to prospective bidders. We’re always keen to talk ideas through and clarify the finer points of the call document. We have set aside 2 specific days for these conversations, the 26th and 27th of October so if you are considering a bid, please do get in touch to arrange a conversation. If those days aren’t good for you then my team mates and I will be happy to arrange alternative times.
This is always an exciting process for JISC staff as we get to hear lots of exciting ideas so I’m really looking forward to seeing what you clever people come up with this time.