Greetings, all.
Just to let you know....
I'd put forward to the May e-Science round a proposal for a RDF-and-AST
project <http://wiki.starlink.ac.uk/twiki/bin/view/Starlink/RDFAndUCD>;
this was briefly part of the `Starlink component' of the AG2 proposal
before the whole thing was squeezed out and an OU colleague and I put
this subproject in as a separate proposal.
Well I've just got a letter from PPARC and, surprise surprise, it hasn't
been funded. I wasn't actually expecting it to be funded, since it
was deliberately a very small project, but I was a bit perplexed at
the reason:
The Panel ... rejected the bid on the grounds that they could not
understand what the proposers planned to do. There is already
much work on a World Co-ordinate system internationally and the
proposers did not appear to be engaged in any of this work.
The first sentence is presumably telling me I'm rubbish at writing
proposals (anyone got any stand-out suggestions how it could have been
better?). The second is a probably just code for `this isn't FITS-WCS;
you are Starlink'.
Sigh.
Norman
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