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A Guide to Future Astronomers

Submitted by kaceyknippenber... on Thu, 11/29/2012 - 03:57

NSF/OCI Data Infrastructure Building Blocks (DIBBs) solicitation

Submitted by terry on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 06:16

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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).

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NSF announces Building Community and Capacity for Data-Intensive Research in the SBE Sciences

Submitted by terry on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 07:21

The NSF Directorates for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences (SBE) and Education & Human Resources (EHR), together with the Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI) recently announced a solicitation for Building Community and Capacity for Data-Intensive Research (http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12538/nsf12538.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT....) with a proposal deadline of 2012-05-22. Here are some snippets from the solicitation.

Survey: Sources of support

Submitted by ebender on Fri, 08/12/2011 - 15:51

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At the Cyberling workshop in 2009, Working Group 6 (participants Mark Liberman, David Lightfoot, Anthony Aristar, Collin Baker, Helen Dry and Laura Welcher) was tasked with exploring how to support the creation and maintenance of this ongoing cyberinfrastructure for linguistic data. They conceptualized this in terms of a four dimensional matrix: (1) projects and activities that need support, (2) potential sources of support, (3) organizational structures through which support can flow and (4) general concepts and principles.

Under (2), the WG6 white paper notes the following sources of support:

NSF and other agencies announce the National Robotics Initiative

Submitted by terry on Wed, 07/27/2011 - 08:01

The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the National Robotics Initiative (http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?org=ENG&ods_key=nsf11553) on 24 June; the solicitation is unusual in that it involves collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Next NSF Computing Research Infrastructure (CRI) solicitation deadline is 25 October 2011

Submitted by terry on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 13:02

The most recent NSF Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Computing Research Infrastructure (CRI) solicitation http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?WT.z_pims_id=12810&ods_key=... was posted on 1 April 2001. The next deadline for proposals is Tuesday, 25 October 2011. CRI supports two types of projects:

Institutional Infrastructure, for either
1. the creation of new computing research infrastructure (II-NEW), or
2. the enhancement of existing such infrastructure (II-EN).

Reminder about NSF/OCI Software Infrastructure for Scientific Innovation (SI2) solicitation

Submitted by terry on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 18:29

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In a previous post (http://blog.cyberling.org/node/702), I briefly described the NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI)'s Software Infrastructure for Scientific Innovation (SI2) solicitation, with a proposal deadline of 18 July 2011. OCI recently issued a "Dear Colleague Letter" calling attention to its goals for this solicitation, and Emily Bender suggested I follow up with a Cyberling posting about it. Since the DCL is not very long, I thought it best simply to quote it in full:

NSF announces new Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL) solicitation

Submitted by terry on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 18:10

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has just announced a new Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL) solicitation at http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11554/nsf11554.pdf, with a deadline of 20 Sept 2011 for proposals (note: not 15 Sept as in past years). Projects must focus on one or more of the following areas:

2011 CI Computing Fellows

Submitted by tiflo on Fri, 05/06/2011 - 21:46

This might be of interest to folks: The call for the 2011 CI computing fellowships is out: http://cifellows.org/. These fellowships provide very generous funding:

The CIFellow’s salary for one year, at $75,000.
Health and other fringe benefits for the CIFellow. We expect the host institution to offer the CIFellow the standard package that it normally offers.
Discretionary expenses for the CIFellow, including moving costs as well as other minor costs (such as travel to conferences, etc.).
Indirect costs for the host institution (up to 25%).

Second NSF solicitation for Software Infrastructure for Scientific Innovation

Submitted by terry on Fri, 04/22/2011 - 16:51

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On April 20, 2011, the National Science Foundation Office of Cyberinfrastructure announced the second Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI^2) Program Solicitation 11-539 at http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11539/nsf11539.htm. I described the first solicitation (issued on March 16, 2010) in a post to this site on March 18, 2010. As I stated in that post, the solicitation is a promising one for supporting certain kinds of research and development for linguistic cyberinfrastructure, and I hope our community is able to take advantage of it.