Posted by s.hettrick on 21 January 2011 - 10:38am

The ETF network is extending an invitation to all past, current and proposed e-Science or related projects to bid for funds to enable the capture of technical detail which may otherwise be lost at the end of a project.

These funded dissemination activities may take the form of a report/white-paper describing specific technical aspects of the project or the development, maintenance or extension of a specific HOWTO document. All of these outputs will be published on the ETF and NeSC information network websites. As each output is completed, we would also require that a short summary presentation is given at one of the network's monthly Access Grid Meetings. This will give the network members an early chance to hear about recently completed work. We would also like to collect these outputs into a hardcopy annual report that can be passed out to funding bodies, host institutions, etc. A selected number will also be presented at a workshop hosted in co-located with the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting. Our overall aim is to learn from each other as well as engage and inform the wider UK academic community of our successes and highlight where further work is needed.

The proposal should contain the following information:

• Type of material proposed
• Author name and short paragraph (~10 lines) summarising experience
• Project name
• Brief description of the technical work to be documented (not more than half-a-page of A4)
• Type of output to be produced
• Timeframe for completion, this should include time for drafts and comment by the network members
• Projected effort and funding requested

We note that no development work will be funded by this network through this call.

Proposals should be sent to info@oerc.ox.ac.uk where they will be reviewed by the network management and responses given within two weeks. As a guide the network is expecting requests of approximately two -three weeks of effort per contribution.

Once the outputs are ready for publication they should again be sent to info@oerc.ox.ac.uk where they will be added to the published outputs. The invoice for the outputs should then be sent FAO Dr David Wallom, OeRC, University of Oxford, 7 Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3QG.