JISC Funding Opportunity: Managing Research Data Programme
The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) invites institutions to submit funding proposals for projects under three separate strands of the Managing Research Data Programme. JISC wishes to fund projects across three strands: The deadline for receipt of proposals in response to this call is 12:00 noon UK time on Friday, 12 February 2010.
1) Strand A: Citing, Integrating and Linking Research Data: To demonstrate the innovative potential for research and scholarly communications of improving methods for citing, integrating and linking research data.
2) Strand B: Enhanced Research Data Publications: To explore innovative technical and organisational models for data publication by scoping and piloting enhanced publications for research data in the form of ‘data journals’, ‘overlay journals’, or similar.
3) Strand C: Research Data Management Training: To promote research data management skills in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) through designing and piloting training units for undergraduate or postgraduate courses, for librarians or research support staff, or in the form of summer schools or roadshows.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2009/12/1409researchdata.aspx







