We have received a few suggestions of projects involving several
countries. These were not allowed for in the JISC/NSF competition, as
selection becomes much too complex. However, we have thought of a possible
approach which might work, allowing more than two countries to become
involved while still preserving the two-country evaluation decisions.
The basic idea is that the proposed multi-country projects be divided into
separate modules, each involving the US and one other country. It might be
possible (because of the relatively early closing date) to make the US/UK
proposal the core proposal, and write the other proposals as add-ons.
So Poppleton University would put in a bid with Greenville University for
a core meta-metadata proposal, to the JISC/NSF competition. Karlsgut
University would put in an associated bid (which might in some sense also
be self-standing), perhaps also with Greenville but perhaps with some
other US uni, into the DFG/NSF competition (if this exists). This bid
might propose some multi-language extensions to meta-metadata, for
example. Both these bids would reference the other, but could be
considered independently. We would strongly recommend that each bid is
capable of standing on its own merits, but in this case the advantages of
approving both sets of bids should also be made clear.
We don't know if this could be worked out (and of course it's much more
complex for the proposers), but it's the only mechanism we have thought of
so far which we think will work given the various time constraints. If the
other competition occurs significantly later than the JISC/NSF
competition, then we might even know the result of the Poppleton bid
before the closing date.
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Chris Rusbridge
Programme Director, Electronic Libraries Programme
The Library, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
Phone 01203 524979 Fax 01203 524981
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