From: "Clifford Lynch" <CNI-ANNOUNCE@cni.org>
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:18:47 -0400
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Subject: German Information Infrastucture for Research Program
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Earlier this week I was fortunate to be able to attend a briefing on 
a series of awards that the German DFG has made to support 
information Infrastructure for Research. These are 
discipline-specific and span the sciences, the social sciences, 
engineering and the humanities, since the DFG funding scope covers 
all of these disciplines. This is a very impressive program and I 
think it will be of interest to many CNI-announce readers, both as an 
example of a national approch to the challenges of data intensive 
scholarship, but also as a possible source of future collaborations. 
The announcement, which links to a number of other documents, can be 
found at

http://www.dfg.de/en/research_funding/announcements_proposals/info_wissenschaft_11_18/index.html


I am hoping that we may be able to have a session exploring some of 
these activities at the fall CNI member meeting.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI