NSF/OCI Data Infrastructure Building Blocks (DIBBs) solicitation

The National Science Foundation's Office of Cyberinfrastructure has announced a new solicitation, Data Infrastructure Building Blocks (DIBBs), which among other things is a successor to its 2007-08 INTEROP solicitation. It has three tracks: Conceptualization, Implementation, and Interoperability (the first with a 26 July 2012 deadline, the second and third with a 30 August 2012 deadline).