Subject: INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARIES COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH
David Green (david@ninch.org)
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 09:22:07 -0500
Message-Id: <v04011715b243c9af2835@[192.100.21.23]> Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 09:22:07 -0500 To: ninch-announce@cni.org From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARIES COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
October 8, 1998
INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARIES COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH
<http://www.cimi.org/documents/NSF_ann_1098.html>
Proposal Target Dates: January 15, 1999 (first year competition)
January 15 (following years' competition)
Following is a National Science Foundation press release about a new grant
program funding international research in digital libraries. (Proposals
must involve a team with at least one researcher working in another
country.)
This will be of interest to a few NINCH subscribers. Specific research
areas falling under this program include:
* multi-lingual information systems, cross-language retrieval systems,
language translation, and language teaching software
* multi-national digital libraries including sound, data, image,
multimedia, software, and other kinds of content
* interoperability and scalability technology to permit extremely large
world-wide collections
* metadata techniques and tools
* geospatial, environmental, biological, historical and other information
systems in which location is highly relevant, including consideration of
best organizations for such systems
* preservation and archiving of digital scholarly information, including
technology and procedures for long-term information asset management
* social aspects of digital libraries and cross-cultural context studies
* utilization of digital libraries in educational technology at all levels
of instruction
* economic and copyright issues: authentication, payment, rights formalism,
trust and fair use
* electronic publishing and scholarly communication technology, including
collaboratories, online repositories, and new methods of organizing
scientific knowledge distribution.
>Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 22:21:40 -0700
>From: Clifford Lynch <cliff@cni.org>
>Subject: new nsf announcement of interest
>
>I believe that the NSF announcement below may be of interest to many
>readers.
>
>clifford
>
>
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>INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARIES
>COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH
>
>Effective Immediately
>Proposal Target Dates: January 15, 1999 (first year competition)
> January 15 (following years' competition)
>
>Announcement Number NSF 99-6 (NEW)
>
>
>INTRODUCTION
>
>This activity is supported by the Division of Information and Intelligent
>Systems of the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and
>Engineering, and the Division of International Programs of the Directorate
>for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences. It builds on and extends
>prior Foundation efforts in digital libraries research.
>
>International digital libraries research is intended to contribute to the
>fundamental knowledge required to create information systems that can
>operate in multiple languages, formats, media, and social and
>organizational contexts. To achieve this, collaborative creation of new
>research understandings, tools and ideas exploiting the different
>opportunities offered by materials and technologies in use in different
>countries is strongly encouraged. Research supported under this program is
>expected to:
>
>* identify a collection of information which is not accessible or usable
>because of technical barriers, distance, size, system fragmentation or
>other limits;
>
>* using this as a testbed, create the understanding and new technology to
>make it possible for such information to be found, delivered to and/or
>exploited by a distributed set of users; and
>
>* evaluate the effect of this new technology and its international benefits.
>
>The program's goal is to enable users to easily access digital collections,
>regardless of location, language or formats, and enable broad use in
>research, education, commerce and other purposes. Such a global information
>environment requires research on:
>
>* interoperable technologies for advanced retrieval of many kinds of
>information, including ways of adapting to different formats or
>organizations of databases;
>
>* technology for intellectual property protection in a global marketplace
>the development of linked, compatible databases with inherently regional
>information, such as databases of geographic, botanic, agricultural,
>demographic or economic data; and
>
>* methods and standards for ensuring long-term interoperability among
>distributed and separately administered databases; worldwide data mining
>and self-organizing databases; collective work on preserving and organizing
>domain-specific content.
>
>While there are now uncoordinated efforts in many countries, cooperative
>research can help avoid duplication of effort, prevent the development of
>fragmented digital systems, and encourage productive interchange of
>scientific knowledge and scholarly data around the world.
>
>This NSF effort will fund the US portion of collaborative digital library
>projects among investigators from different countries to foster long-term,
>sustainable relationships between US and non-US researchers and research
>organizations. Cooperating groups in supported projects are expected to be
>balanced in terms of level of effort and expertise, and demonstrate the
>benefits obtainable from complementary and synergistic international
>research. The research strengths of researchers in different countries
>should be combined to facilitate work on complex multi-faceted problems
>relating to the access and use of international distributed and
>multilingual resources.
>
> CONTENT
>
>Proposals should have the overall research goal of enabling users to access
>and exploit information in new ways. Research issues include information
>organization, forms of information distribution, scalability and security
>techniques for worldwide data systems, and tools to search, store, and
>deliver information in different media or languages.
>
>Specific research areas falling under this program are:
>
>* multi-lingual information systems, cross-language retrieval systems,
>language translation, and language teaching software
>* multi-national digital libraries including sound, data, image,
>multimedia, software, and other kinds of content
>* interoperability and scalability technology to permit extremely large
>world-wide collections
>* metadata techniques and tools
>* geospatial, environmental, biological, historical and other information
>systems in which location is highly relevant, including consideration of
>best organizations for such systems
>* preservation and archiving of digital scholarly information, including
>technology and procedures for long-term information asset management
>* social aspects of digital libraries and cross-cultural context studies
>* utilization of digital libraries in educational technology at all levels
>of instruction
>* economic and copyright issues: authentication, payment, rights formalism,
>trust and fair use
>* electronic publishing and scholarly communication technology, including
>collaboratories, online repositories, and new methods of organizing
>scientific knowledge distribution.
>
>These topics are not intended to be totally inclusive, but to illustrate
>and encourage research which opens exciting new research areas, and gives
>promise of user benefit from international research synergy.
>
>
>ELIGIBILITY
>
>Multi-country, multi-team projects are required, and proposals to this
>program must involve at least one research team in the United States and
>one in another country. A project should have a single jointly developed
>proposal from all involved groups, which clearly delineates both the
>division of areas of research and the synergies expected. Each research
>team is responsible for obtaining support for its part of the project. NSF
>will not support the non-US portion of a project, nor the US portion of a
>project not receiving support in the foreign country or countries involved.
>The NSF proposal must contain, in addition to budget(s) for the US team(s),
>information indicating the level of investments and efforts for each
>foreign team. Where desirable, NSF may choose to coordinate review with a
>foreign funding agency and make joint decisions.
>
>Institutions eligible to apply to the NSF supported portion of this program
>are US universities and US non-profit research institutions. Each project
>should not exceed three year's duration with a maximum yearly cost of
>$165,000. NSF funding for this initiative is anticipated to be a minimum of
>$1M annually.
>
>
>PROPOSAL CONTENT
>
>Proposal preparation guidelines are in the NSF Grant Proposal Guide, NSF 99-2.
>Each proposal must include a plan of work explaining:
>* what the primary research questions are,
>* what information resource is to be used in the project,
>* what area will be investigated,
>* who is likely to use the information and for what purposes, and
>* what benefits are expected to flow from the research.
>
>In addition, the proposal must have a clear and explicit management plan.
>This includes:
>* details of how cooperation is to be carried out and coordinated,
>* description of and justification for the partitioning of the research
>activities,
>* processes to be used for coordinating and evaluating progress, and
>* anticipated travel requirements.
>
>Biographical information should be provided for all investigators in the
>collaborative effort, both US, and non-US as described in the NSF Grant
>Proposal Guide, NSF 99-2. Citations to participant publications which
>appeared after July 1, 1998 are encouraged to be given as Web addresses
>only. A letter of endorsement from the foreign counterparts, which
>identifies the source of support for the non-US activities, is required.
>
>
>PROPOSAL EVALUATION
>
>Evaluation criteria applied to all NSF proposals listed in the Grant
>Proposal Guide, NSF 99-2, are:
>
>1. What is the intellectual merit of the proposed activity? How important
>is the proposed activity to advancing knowledge and understanding within
>its own field or across different fields? How well qualified is the
>proposer (individual or team) to conduct the project? (If appropriate, the
>reviewer will comment on the quality of prior work.) To what extent does
>the proposed activity suggest and explore creative and original concepts?
>How well conceived and organized is the proposed activity? Is there
>sufficient access to resources?
>
>2. What are the broader impacts of the proposed activity? How well does
>the activity advance discovery and understanding while promoting teaching,
>training, and learning? How well does the proposed activity broaden the
>participation of underrepresented groups (e.g., gender, ethnicity,
>disability, geographic, etc.)? To what extent will it enhance the
>infrastructure for research and education, such as facilities,
>instrumentation, networks, and partnerships? Will the results be
>disseminated broadly to enhance scientific and technological understanding?
>What may be the benefits of the proposed activity to society?
>
>In addition, the following criteria will be used for this program:
>
>1. Does the proposal represent new research in the area of digital
>libraries, and does it contain new scientific ideas and methods?
>
>2. Does the project demonstrate the need for and advantages of shared
>international activities, and exploit, as appropriate, new communications
>methods to link its teams?
>
>3. Are the research groups interacting as true collaborators, displaying
>complementary and comparable levels of professional expertise?
>
>4. Does the management plan provide mechanisms for effective
>communication, coordination, progress assessment, and flexibility?
>
>5. Should the research be successful, how many people will benefit from
>the new technology created?
>
>6. Should the research be successful, how will the content be made
>available to communities of users?
>
>7. Do the previous efforts of the research teams demonstrate their
>competence and support their likelihood of achieving the goals of the
>project?
>
> 8. If the work is successful at creating a new information service, does
>the proposal include a plan by which that service will be continued after
>the research funding ends, and how credible is that plan?
>
>9. How effective is the project plan for enabling others to draw upon the
>results of the research?
>
>Integration of Research and Education
>
>One of the principal strategies in support of NSF's goals is to foster
>integration of research and education through the programs, projects and
>activities it supports at academic and research institutions. These
>institutions provide abundant opportunities where individuals may
>concurrently assume responsibilities as researchers, educators, and
>students and where all can engage in joint efforts that infuse education
>with the excitement of discovery and enrich research through the diversity
>of learner perspectives. PIs should address this issue in their proposal
>to provide reviewers with the information necessary to respond fully to
>both NSF merit review criteria. NSF staff will give it careful
>consideration in making funding decisions.
>
>Integrating Diversity into NSF Programs, Projects, and Activities
>
>Broadening opportunities and enabling the participation of all citizens --
>women and men, underrepresented minorities, and persons with disabilities
>-- is essential to the health and vitality of science and engineering. NSF
>is committed to this principle of diversity and deems it central to the
>programs, projects, and activities it considers and supports. PIs should
>address this issue in their proposal to provide reviewers with the
>information necessary to respond fully to both NSF merit review criteria.
>NSF staff will give it careful consideration in making funding decisions.
>
>
>CATEGORIES OF SUPPORT
>
>All awards for this announcement made by NSF will be as grants or
>cooperative agreements to academic institutions and qualified non-profit
>research organizations. Partnership arrangements with other groups in the
>United States are encouraged, including subcontracts with the proposing
>organization.
>
>
>PROPOSAL SCHEDULES AND PREPARATION
>
>Letters of Intent: Due One Month Prior to Proposal Submission
>
>Letters of Intent are encouraged to assist the program in administrative
>and review preparation. Organizations or persons considering submission of
>a proposal should send an electronic mail message with the following
>statement: "I am interested in submitting a proposal to the International
>Digital Libraries Program," and include the title and brief abstract of the
>proposed work, as much as is known of the list of participants, including
>the foreign participants, and the source of funds anticipated for the
>foreign partners. Letters of intent will not be refereed or evaluated but
>should contain sufficient information about the topic to help in the
>selection of reviewers.
>
>Submit the letter of intent as an electronic mail message to idli2@nsf.gov
>or send a letter of intent to:
>
> International Digital Libraries Research
> Division of Information and Intelligent Systems Suite 1115
> National Science Foundation
> 4201 Wilson Boulevard Arlington, VA 22230
>
>Full Proposals: Target Date January 15, 1999 (first year competition)
> January 15 (succeeding years' competition)
>
>The proposals must be marked INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARIES - NSF 99-6 in
>the top left hand box, "Program Announcement", on the cover sheet (NSF Form
>1207). Proposals must be prepared as specified in the NSF Grant Proposal
>Guide, NSF 99-2 and sent to:
>
> National Science Foundation PPU
> International Digital Libraries Research, Suite 1115
> 4201 Wilson Boulevard Arlington, VA 22230
>
>
>AWARD ADMINISTRATION
>
>NSF requires prospective grantees to furnish, upon request by NSF's
>Division of Grants and Agreements, basic organization and management
>information that will assist the NSF Grant Officers in assessing their
>financial and managerial responsibility. These requirements are described
>in the NSF 95-26, NSF Grant Policy Manual. Grants awarded as a result of
>this solicitation are administered in accordance with the terms and
>conditions of NSF GC-1, "Grant General Conditions," or FDP-III, "Federal
>Demonstration Partnership General Terms and Conditions," depending on the
>grantee organization. Any Cooperative Agreement resulting from this
>announcement must comply with NSF GC-1 and Cooperative Agreement General
>Conditions, CA-1.
>
>NSF expects significant findings from research to be promptly submitted for
>publication by US supported teams, and strongly encourages this practice on
>the part of the non-US collaborators.
>
>
>OTHER INFORMATION
>
>The National Science Foundation (NSF) funds research and education in most
>fields of science and engineering. Grantees are wholly responsible for
>conducting their project activities and preparing the results for
>publication. Thus, the Foundation does not assume responsibility for such
>findings or their interpretation.
>
>NSF welcomes proposals from all qualified scientists, engineers and
>educators. The Foundation strongly encourages women, minorities, and
>persons with disabilities to compete fully in its programs. In
>accordance with federal statutes, regulations, and NSF policies, no
>person on grounds of race, color, age, sex, national origin, or
>disability shall be excluded from participation in, be denied the
>benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or
>activity receiving financial assistance from NSF (unless otherwise
>specified in the eligibility requirements for a particular program).
>
>Facilitation Awards for Scientists and Engineers with Disabilities (FASED)
>provide funding for special assistance or equipment to enable persons with
>disabilities (investigators and other staff, including student research
>assistants) to work on NSF-supported projects. See the program
>announcement or contact the program coordinator at (703) 306-1636.
>
>The National Science Foundation has Telephonic Device for the Deaf (TDD)
>and Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) capabilities that enable
>individuals with hearing impairments to communicate with the Foundation
>regarding NSF programs, employment, or general information. TDD may be
>accessed at (703) 306-0090 or through FIRS on 1-800-877-8339.
>
>PRIVACY ACT AND PUBLIC BURDEN STATEMENTS
>
>The information requested on proposal forms and project reports is
>solicited under the authority of the National Science Foundation Act of
>1950, as amended. The information on proposal forms will be used in
>connection with the selection of qualified proposals; project reports
>submitted by awardees will be used for program evaluation and reporting
>within the Executive Branch and to Congress. The information requested may
>be disclosed to qualified reviewers and staff assistants as part of the
>review process; to applicant institutions/grantees to provide or obtain
>data regarding the proposal review process, award decisions, or the
>administration of awards; to government contractors, experts, volunteers
>and researchers and educators as necessary to complete assigned work; to
>other government agencies needing information as part of the review process
>or in order to coordinate programs; and to another Federal agency, court or
>party in a court or Federal administrative proceeding if the government is
>a party. Information about Principal Investigators may be added to the
>Reviewer file and used to select potential candidates to serve as peer
>reviewers or advisory committee members. See Systems of Records, NSF-50,
>"Principal Investigator/Proposal File and Associated Records," 63 Federal
>Register 267 (January 5, 1998), and NSF-51, "Reviewer/Proposal File and
>Associated Records," 63 Federal Register 268 (January 5, 1998). Submission
>of the information is voluntary. Failure to provide full and complete
>information, however, may reduce the possibility of receiving an award.
>
>Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to
>average 120 hours per response, including the time for reviewing
>instructions. Send comments regarding this burden estimate and any other
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>reducing this burden, to: Reports Clearance Officer; Information
>Dissemination Branch, DAS; National Science Foundation; Arlington, VA
>22230.
>
>YEAR 2000 REMINDER
>
>In accordance with Important Notice No. 120 dated June 27, 1997, Subject:
>Year 2000 Computer Problem, NSF awardees are reminded of their
>responsibility to take appropriate actions to ensure that the NSF activity
>being supported is not adversely affected by the Year 2000 problem.
>Potentially affected items include: computer systems, databases, and
>equipment. The National Science Foundation should be notified if an
>awardee concludes that the Year 2000 will have a significant impact on its
>ability to carry out an NSF funded activity. Information concerning Year
>2000 activities can be found on the NSF web site at
>http://www.nsf.gov/oirm/y2k/start.htm.
>
>Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Numbers:
>47.070 Computer and Information Science and Engineering
>47.075 Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences
>
>OMB# 3145-0058
>P.T. (34)
>K.W.(1000000,0400000,0300000)
>
>
>AGENCY CONTACTS
>
>Stephen M. Griffin
>National Science Foundation
>Division of Information and Intelligent Systems
>4201 Wilson Boulevard
>Arlington, VA 22230
>Electronic mail: sgriffin@nsf.gov
>Telephone: 703-306-1930
>Fax: 703-306-0599
>
>For country specific or regional information, please contact:
>Division of International Programs
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>Arlington, VA 22230
>Electronic mail: intpubs@nsf.gov
>Fax: 703-306-0476
>Telephones:
> Africa, Near East, South Asia: 703-306-1707
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> Japan and Korea: 703-306-1701
> Western Europe: 703-306-1702
>
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>Stephen M. Griffin
>Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS)
>Program Director: Special Projects
> Digital Libraries Initiative
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