[foundation-board] Fwd: ICT-PSP draft

Wed Apr 27 13:06:50 UTC 2011

I'm +1 having talked with Jonathan about this and the obvious
synergies with our existing bibliographic work (cf
http://openbiblio.net and projects listed there).

Rufus

On 26 April 2011 22:39, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I met Stefan Gradmann in Berlin a few weeks ago - and he invited the
> OKF to be part of a €3-4 million bid associated with the Europeana
> project. All data would be CC0. They are interested to have us lead
> work on communications/community building around the project. I also
> suggested that we could potentially contribute to the technical work.
> At the moment this is still in drafting phase.
>
> Do the board have any questions they'd like me to ask in the first
> instance about what this would entail?
>
> FWIW I very much think we should do this. Most of our funded work is
> in relation to government information - and this would be a great
> opportunity to diversify our portfolio of financially supported
> projects to include bibliographic data, cultural heritage material,
> and the public domain, three of the OKF's big key areas.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> J.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>
> Dear all,
>
> I believe that Stefan Gradmann has been in contact with all of you
> concerning the project proposal we are planning for the open ICT PSP
> Programme. You are appointed as leaders for one of the work packages.
> As such, we would like to ask you to contribute a detailed description
> of the work packages that you will be leading before May, 22nd, in
> order to let us finish the final write-up of the proposal in time. You
> will probably need to do this in consultation with the partners that
> will contribute to your work package.
>
> Please find attached the beginning of a draft for the proposal, as
> well as a list of the project partners. (You will receive an
> invitation to share the same documents on docs.google with us in a
> moment.)
>
> With kind regards,
> Anja Eisemann
>
> --
> Anja Eisemann, B.A.
> Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
> Stud. Mitarbeiterin am Lehrstuhl Wissensmanagement
> Berlin School of Library and Information Science
> http://www.ibi.hu-berlin.de
>
>
>
>
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> Jonathan Gray
>
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