23.1119, FYI: Community and Infrastructure Planning for Data-Intensive Research

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Subject: 23.1119, FYI: Community and Infrastructure Planning for Data-Intensive Research

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Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 10:35:13
From: Bill Badecker [wbadecke at nsf.gov]
Subject: Community and Infrastructure Planning for Data-Intensive Research

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Community and Infrastructure Planning for Data-Intensive Research

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to call your attention to the "Data-Intensive Research" 
program announcement which has just been published by the Social, 
Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) on the NSF web site 
[http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?
pims_id=504747&org=SBE&from=home]. $5,000,000 has been set 
aside for this FY12 competition and the deadline for receipt of 
proposals is May 22, 2012. The potential benefit for many of our areas 
of research is great, but the timing is tight. We hope that you will 
consider spreading the word within your respective communities and 
encouraging relevant individuals/groups to submit. 

The details of the competition are provided in NSF 12-538 
[http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12538/nsf12538.pdf]. What underlies 
this competition, in a nutshell, is the realization that large 
interdisciplinary databases will play an increasingly important research 
role and that SBE should nurture their development. The underlying 
purpose of the competition is to move SBE sciences towards this goal 
by encouraging communities:

-to develop visions for next-generation data and the specific areas of 
research that these data would enable; 

-to build research and management teams for the integration of 
research, data, and data infrastructure, including automated and other 
analysis tools; and 

-to prototype aspects of a proposed next-generation infrastructure. 

A second premise is that different research communities currently 
stand in different positions along this developmental path. In some 
areas sufficient groundwork currently exists to actually proceed and 
develop prototype systems and relevant analytic techniques. In others, 
relevant communities have yet to be developed and a necessary first 
step involves establishing linkages and communication. The 
announcement is worded to extend across this entire range of 
possibilities. The announcement purposely does not specify a 
maximum award size and it is expected that these amounts will vary 
significantly. 
This FY12 competition is designed as a first step in a multistage 
process. Tentatively, SBE—together with contributors in the Directorate 
of Education and Human Resources (EHR) and the Office of Cyber 
Infrastructure (OCI)—envisions a second competition at roughly the 
same scale in FY13 followed by a third with awards of significantly 
larger scale.  Likely these "larger scale" applications will develop from 
awards from the prior two years.

If you have questions, please contact either of the two BCS contacts for 
the announcement:  Bill Badecker <wbadecke at nsf.gov> or John 
Yellen <jyellen at nsf.gov>. 

Bill Badecker and Joan Maling
Linguistics Program Officers
SBE/BCS 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

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