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Identifying funding and collaboration opportunities to support the Global Names e-Infrastructure. Dimitris Koureas & Vince Smith Natural History Museum London. Jönköping, Sweden October 27-31, 2014. Funding Opportunities. The ephemeral lifecycle of a project. Development phase. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Identifying funding and collaboration opportunities to support the Global Names e-Infrastructure
Dimitris Koureas & Vince SmithNatural History Museum London
Jönköping, SwedenOctober 27-31, 2014
Maintenance
Funding application
Project starts
Project ends
Development phase
No further funding or gap in funding for development
?
The ephemeral lifecycle of a projectFunding Opportunities
“…telephones do not crash; power supplies do not
fluctuate; and clocks do not halt (in general). Similarly,
a computational tool (…) must be reliable across
time, it must be maintained.”1
1 Ribes D., Finholt T.A. 2007 Proceedings of the third International Conference on e-Social Science
Funding Opportunities
Project InfrastructureDiscoveryIndividualistic
EphemeralOptionalRisk taking
ImplementationCommunal / agreed
PersistentEssential
Robust & reliable
Adapted from Patterson D. 2013, Tempe, Arizona
Transition from
Funding Opportunities
“An infrastructure must be taken as a process instead of a system.”
Shift in the way we approache-infrastructures and information resources
Stable/rigid system Dynamic/open process
Outsource to and involve the end user community
We need to set up the environment that will enable the community contribution
Koerten, H. & van den Besselaar P. 2013. Sustainable Taxonomic Infrastructures: System or Process?
Funding Opportunities
Why Global names services are yet not an established and widely used service?
Over-ambitious and non-stepwise approach
Minimum engagement of stakeholders
Failed to convince of the value outside the taxonomic domain
1
2
3
The current situation
“The Global Names Architecture was developed to help nomenclaturalists, taxonomists and biodiversity informaticians do their jobs better and faster…”
http://globalnames.org/background:
We need to frame our efforts in the context of existing urgent societal challenges & reveal the universal scientific value of effective name services
Need for a cross-domain approach
This approach is critical for securing long-term support from external partners
Name services will not only benefit taxonomists, will primarily benefit non-taxonomic disciplines
New drugs
Clinical researchParasites & vectorsEpidemiological dataAnimal experimental data
Biodiversity
Biogeographical dataEcological traitsInvasive species
Ecosystem services
Provisioning service dataRegulating service dataCultural service data
Create new knowledge links at large scale
Ethnobiology
Medicinal propertiesTechnological usesVernacular name base
Omics research
GenomicsProteomicsMetabolomics
Improved productivity
Scientific names
Hete
roty
pic
syno
nym
s
Rock snot didymo
Hom
otyp
ic sy
nony
ms
Gomphonema vulgare Brébisson 1838G. vulgare Breb.
Gomphonema geminatum (Lyngbye) C.Agardh 1824
Echinella geminata Lyngbye 1819Echinella geminata Lyngbye
Didymosphenia geminata (Lyngbye) Schmidt 1899 Didimosphenia geminata
Vernaculars
Surrogates
RECONCILIATION GROUP
AAAAAGCTCGTAGTTGGATTTGTGATGGAATTTGAATACTTTTAAAGTGTTCTAGAAACTGTCATCCGTGGGTGGAATTTGTTTGGCATTAGGTTGTCAGRCAGAGGATGCCTATMCTTTACTGTGAAAAAATCAGTGCGTTCAAAGCAGACTTACGTCGATGAATGTATTAGCATGGAA
Hete
roty
pic s
ynon
yms
IDse423b2b9-35b0-4819-8ce9-88e770d368e7
Scientific names
Hete
roty
pic
syno
nym
s
Rock snot didymo
Hom
otyp
ic sy
nony
ms
Gomphonema vulgare Brébisson 1838G. vulgare Breb.
Gomphonema geminatum (Lyngbye) C.Agardh 1824
Echinella geminata Lyngbye 1819Echinella geminata Lyngbye
Didymosphenia geminata (Lyngbye) Schmidt 1899 Didimosphenia geminata
Vernaculars
SurrogatesAAAAAGCTCGTAGTTGGATTTGTGATGGAATTTGAATACTTTTAAAGTGTTCTAGAAACTGTCATCCGTGGGTGGAATTTGTTTGGCATTAGGTTGTCAGRCAGAGGATGCCTATMCTTTACTGTGAAAAAATCAGTGCGTTCAAAGCAGACTTACGTCGATGAATGTATTAGCATGGAA
Hete
roty
pic s
ynon
yms
IDse423b2b9-35b0-4819-8ce9-88e770d368e7
Didymosphenia geminata (Lyngbye) Schmidt 1899
RESOLUTION
Research Data Alliance
Opportunities for efficient collaboration
Status: Recognised & EndorsedChairs: Yde de Jong, Nicola Nicolson, Vince Smith, Paul Kirk, Dimitris Koureas
Biodiversity Data Integration IG One of 33 Interest groups of RDA
Core group created to support the creation of a Working Group on Global Name services
Identified the opportunity to work closely together with TDWG – Joint Working Group?
Currently 53 members: 80% increase in number of members since last RDA plenary (P4)
Case statement to be submitted by Feb 2015
European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) In particular the environmental and health and food clusters
Clinical researchBiodiversity Ecosystem services EthnobiologyOmics research
In fact we need to find communities as stakeholders/beneficiaries across domains
Opportunities for efficient collaboration
How would tackle urgent societal challenges?
How does it fit in the Big Data technical challenges?
Who are the direct and subsequent beneficiaries?
Who are the stakeholders and their investment in supporting this?
A standing programme to enable collaboration and secure long-term funding
1
2
3
4
Funding Opportunities
A Minimum Viable Product (MVP) approach – adopt a stepwise strategy1
Develop a stepwise work programme to achieve the long-term vision
Demonstrate impact delivered from every step through lacing together with compelling case studies
2
3
Funding Opportunities
An approach to develop a strong funding profile
Three routes to choose from:
Small or medium sized grants to develop the building blocks of the serviceUS and EU Foundations and Research Council grants1
50-100k
3Large grants from regional funding programmes Horizon 2020 2-8m
2Embed as element in different bigger projects
200-300k
Funding Opportunities
H2020 pillar Excellent Science
H2020 topic Call: H2020-EINFRA-2015-1 | Topic: EINFRA-9-2015 e-Infrastructures for Virtual Research Environments (VRE)
Due date 2015-01-14 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)
Project acronym LinkDProject title Linking data, services and communities for predictive modelling
of the biosphereIndicative requested EC contribution c. € 8 million
Duration of project 36 months
Supporting the development of a MVP through European e-infrastructure projects
Funding Opportunities
COST Actions [EU] e.g. BioUnify (submitted but unsuccessful)
Research Coordination Networks (RCN) [US]
Networking platforms
Funding Opportunities
National funding sources
Research councils & foundations
Maintenance
Funding application
Project starts
Project ends
Development phase
Hybrid model
Anchoring to core funds+
Crowdsourcing to beneficiaries
