Dear Martin,

Sorry to hear this. I am sure we will have another opportunity to create 
our network in the near future, if the research councils decide to 
support the Clarin initiative with money as well as words. Many other 
countries have allotted considerable sums for specific support of 
Clarin. I hope the UK will follow at some point.
I will attend LREC, and would like to get together on how to proceed 
from here.
As far as I can judge, Thursday lunch will be best for me.
See you then, and hopefully before,

Best wishes,

Wim

Martin Wynne wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am disappointed to have to inform you that the proposal to EPSRC 
> e-Science Networks call, for a Linguistics and e-Science network was 
> unsuccessful. Despite obtaining some very supportive reviews, we were 
> ranked 9th out of 21 proposals, and 7 projects were funded. 
> Nevertheless, we believe that this was a strong proposal, and a 
> worthwhile venture, so we will continue to look for alternative 
> sources of funding. Any suggestions are welcome!
>
> I propose to continue to use this email list so that we can share 
> information about the CLARIN project, and e-Science and infrastructure 
> issues relating to linguistics.
>
> The good news is that the CLARIN project is under way now, and some of 
> you are already involved in that. I will circulate the first issue of 
> the newsletter when it comes out next month. There will be a panel 
> discussion on the topic of the proposed CLARIN infrastructure at the 
> LREC conference in May which some of you may be attending. CLARIN 
> should be of interest to you if you are planning to create or deploy 
> language resources or tools, then you may wish to consider the getting 
> involved in the discussions about interoperability and technical 
> standards associated with CLARIN. If you would like to talk to someone 
> involved in CLARIN about tying in your project with the CLARIN 
> infrastructure, then please get in touch with me.
>
> Also, the UK research councils know about and support the CLARIN 
> initiative, and so this could help to show that you are taking account 
> of issues relating to standards, re-use and sustainability, and thus 
> strengthen your proposals. So if you want to talk to someone about 
> making your grant proposal tie in with CLARIN, please get in touch.
>
> As I mentioned above, some of you will be going to LREC in May. If 
> anyone thinks it would be a good idea to have meeting of UK 
> researchers to discuss these and other issues, please let me know, and 
> I'll try to organise something. Knowing that the program will be full, 
> and that most of us will be very busy, an informal get-together at a 
> mealtime may be the most practical option. Please let me know if you 
> think you are likely to be available for lunch or dinner on Wednesday 
> 28th or Thursday 29th. When we see the final program we can try to 
> schedule something.
>
> Best wishes,
> Martin
>