[Buildingdata] Datasets and funding for improving equipment sharing

[Alexander Dutton]

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Hi all,

We've just had the following come through:

"""
The EPSRC has provided funding to ‘to enable Universities to run short
projects that enable increased sharing of existing research equipment’
and provide examples of ways to increase use and share scarce
resources. *Internal grant proposals are invited. Due: 5.00pm,
Friday 28 October 2011. Funds per project: normally £500 to £10,000.

Activities can be within the University (projects that will enable
cross-departmental / divisional use of equipment are especially
welcome) or in collaboration with other Universities.

Some examples of activities that could be undertaken include

* developing/configuring equipment so that it can be more
easily shared - any investment in items of equipment to enable this
must be less than £10,000 per item

* setting up equipment as managed facilities (see
e.g. _http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/researchsupport/facilities/)

* running training/use courses for new users
"""

Further details at <http://is.gd/EEgjY8>.


<http://equipment.epsrc.ac.uk/> seems like some kind of national
register. So, I'd hope to set up some sort of spreadsheet-based
submission process that creates some RDF, which can then automagically
be submitted to the equipment register.

Has anyone done any work in this area? Would anyone be interested in
working together on such a project?


Yours,

Alex

NB. I seem to remember that Southampton (or someone else?) was already
publishing facilities information to promote sharing.


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Alexander Dutton
Metamorphoses Project Developer, Claros
Oxford University Computing Services, ℡ 01865 (6)13483
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