Title: INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARIES COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS TESTBEDS Date: 02/26/02 Replaced: INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARIES COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS TESTBEDS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Program Solicitation NSF-02-085 DIRECTORATE FOR COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DIVISION OF INFORMATION AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS LETTER OF INTENT DUE DATE(S) (optional): March 15 of each year except FY 2002. For FY 2002: April 27. FULL PROPOSAL TARGET DATE(S): April 15 of each year except FY 2002. For FY 2002: June 3. Revisions and Updates International Digital Libraries Collaborative Research And Applications Testbeds Effective May 24, 2002, the following changes were made to this program announcement: (1) The deadline for full proposals is being extended to Monday, June 3, 2002. This new deadline appears on the Cover Page and in the text of this program solicitation. (2) Under "Additional Review Criteria," Criterion # 10 has been deleted ["Criteria unique to specific...] There is only 9 special criteria. NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION The National Science Foundation promotes and advances scientific progress in the United States by competitively awarding grants and cooperative agreements for research and education in the sciences, mathematics, and engineering. To get the latest information about program deadlines, to download copies of NSF publications, and to access abstracts of awards, visit the NSF Web Site at: http://www.nsf.gov - Location: 4201 Wilson Blvd. Arlington, VA 22230 - For General Information (NSF Information Center): (703) 292-5111 - TDD (for the hearing-impaired): (703) 292-5090 - To Order Publications or Forms: Send an e-mail to: pubs@nsf.gov or telephone: (301) 947-2722 - To Locate NSF Employees: (703) 292-5111 SUMMARY OF PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GENERAL INFORMATION Program Title: INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARIES COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS TESTBEDS Synopsis of Program: This activity is supported by the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems in the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering. It builds on and extends prior Foundation efforts in international collaborative digital libraries research and applications. Cognizant Program Officer(s): * Stephen M. Griffin, Program Manager, CISE/IIS, Information and Intelligent Systems, 1115, telephone: 703-292-8930, e-mail: sgriffin@nsf.gov. Applicable Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number(s): * 47.070 --- Computer and Information Science and Engineering ELIGIBILITY INFORMATION * Organization Limit: see Eligibility Description * PI Eligibility Limit: None * Limit on Number of Proposals: None AWARD INFORMATION * Anticipated Type of Award: Standard or Continuing Grant * Estimated Number of Awards: Up to 10 per year * Anticipated Funding Amount: Up to $10,000,000 in FY2002 pending the availability of funds. PROPOSAL PREPARATION AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS A. Proposal Preparation Instructions * Letters of Intent: Submission of Letters of Intent is optional. Please see the full program announcement/solicitation for further information. * Full Proposals: Supplemental Preparation Guidelines o The program announcement/solicitation contains supplements to the standard Grant Proposal Guide (GPG) proposal preparation guidelines. Please see the full program announcement/solicitation for further information. B. Budgetary Information * Cost Sharing Requirements: Cost Sharing is not required. * Indirect Cost (F&A) Limitations: Not Applicable. * Other Budgetary Limitations: Not Applicable. C. Deadline/Target Dates * Letters of Intent (optional): March 15 of each year except FY 2002. For FY 2002: April 27. * Preliminary Proposals (optional): None * Full Proposal Target Date(s): April 15 of each year except FY 2002. For FY 2002: June 3. D. FastLane Requirements * FastLane Submission: Required * FastLane Contact(s): o Michele R. Johnson, Senior Program Assistant, CISE/IIS, Information and Intelligent Systems, 1115, telephone: (703) 292-8930, e-mail: mrjohnso@nsf.gov. PROPOSAL REVIEW INFORMATION * Merit Review Criteria: National Science Board approved criteria. Additional merit review considerations apply. Please see the full program announcement/solicitation for further information. AWARD ADMINISTRATION INFORMATION * Award Conditions: Standard NSF award conditions apply. * Reporting Requirements: Standard NSF reporting requirements apply. TABLE OF CONTENTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUMMARY OF PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS I. INTRODUCTION II. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION III. ELIGIBILITY INFORMATION IV. AWARD INFORMATION V. PROPOSAL PREPARATION AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS A. Proposal Preparation Instructions B. Budgetary Information C. Deadline/Target Dates D. FastLane Requirements VI. PROPOSAL REVIEW INFORMATION A. NSF Proposal Review Process B. Review Protocol and Associated Customer Service Standard VII. AWARD ADMINISTRATION INFORMATION A. Notification of the Award B. Award Conditions C. Reporting Requirements VIII.CONTACTS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION IX. OTHER PROGRAMS OF INTEREST I. INTRODUCTION This activity is supported by the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems in the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering. It builds on and extends prior Foundation efforts in digital libraries research and applications. International digital libraries research is intended to contribute to the fundamental knowledge required to create information systems that can operate in multiple languages, formats, media, and social and organizational contexts. International collaborative research can bring complementary approaches, resources and perspectives to bear on common needs and information technology research challenges. International digital libraries applications testbeds are intended to build operational prototypes for globally distributed, internet-based resources, and to implement these in a variety of applications contexts. The testbeds are expected to advance technologies across the digital libraries lifecycle, focus collective work on organizing domain-specific content, and engage researchers, scholars, students and teachers in enhancing research and knowledge resources in a variety of subject domains. The program's goal is to advance the creation and access to internet-based digital content, regardless of location, information content or form, and thus enable broad use for research, education, commerce and other societal purposes. Developing global information environments requires international collaborative efforts in many areas: * identifying collections of information which is not accessible or usable because of technical barriers, distance, size, system fragmentation or other limits; * creating interoperable technologies for federation and retrieval of many kinds of information; * understanding and developing new technologies to make it possible for such information to be organized and delivered to and/or exploited by a distributed sets of users in collaborative settings; * building testbeds to evaluate new technology in international contexts and to measure the benefits gained along various dimensions; * resolving intellectual property issues in complex global marketplaces; * developing linked, compatible databases with inherently regional information, such as databases of geographic, botanic, agricultural, demographic or economic data; * reaching agreement on methods and standards for ensuring long-term sustainability and interoperability among distributed and separately administered databases; and, * implementing preservation and archiving practices for domain-specific and other content. While there are now uncoordinated efforts in many countries to build digital libraries, cooperative research and testbed activities can help avoid duplication of effort, prevent the development of non-interoperable digital systems, and encourage productive interchange of scientific knowledge and scholarly data around the world. This NSF effort will fund the U. S. portion of collaborative digital library projects among investigators from different countries to foster long-term, sustainable relationships between U.S. and non-U.S. researchers and research organizations. Cooperating groups in supported projects are expected to be balanced in terms of level of effort and expertise, and demonstrate the benefits obtainable from complementary international research. The research strengths and unique resources of organizations in different countries should be combined to facilitate work on complex multi-faceted problems relating to the access and use of internationally distributed, multilingual and multimedia content. II. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION The new program seeks to fund projects that demonstrate how modern information and communications technologies can fundamentally change the way in which topical material is represented and delivered to diverse communities of users. Projects are expected to disseminate findings widely and serve as exemplars for the international digital libraries community. Proposals should have the overall goals of advancing digital libraries research and infrastructure needs and enable users to access and exploit information in new and productive ways. Research issues include information structure, organization, access, scalability and security techniques for worldwide data systems, and tools to search, store, and deliver information in different media or languages. Specific research areas in this program are: * creation of multi-national digital libraries which include text, sound, scientific data, images, multimedia, software tools, and other kinds of content, * multi-lingual information systems, cross-language retrieval systems, language translation, and language teaching software, * interoperability and scalability technology to permit extremely large world-wide collections, * metadata techniques and tools and data structuring approaches and consensus building, * geospatial, environmental, biological, historical and other information systems in which location is highly relevant, including novel organizations for such systems, * preservation and archiving of digital scholarly information, including technology and procedures for long-term information asset management and systems sustainability, * utilization of digital libraries in educational technology at all levels of instruction, * economic and copyright issues: authentication, payment, rights formalism, trust and fair use, * electronic publishing and scholarly communication technology, including collaboratories, online repositories, and new methods of organizing scientific knowledge distribution, and * measurement of effectiveness of resource deployment in applications contexts and broader social, cultural and economic impacts. This topic list is not intended to be entirely inclusive, but to illustrate and encourage research which opens exciting new areas, and gives promise of user benefits from coordinated international research and testbed activities. III. ELIGIBILITY INFORMATION Multi-country, multi-team projects are required, and proposals to this program must involve at least one team in the United States and one in another country. A project should submit a single, jointly developed proposal indicating workplans of each major partner. Each team is responsible for obtaining support for its part of the project. NSF will not support the non-U.S. portion of a project. NSF will not support U.S. portions of a project in which the non-U.S. partners fail to receive support from the foreign funding agencies involved. The NSF proposal must contain, in addition to budget(s) for the U.S. team(s), information indicating the level of investments and efforts for each foreign team. Where desirable, NSF may choose to coordinate review with a foreign funding agency and make joint decisions. Institutions eligible to apply to the NSF supported portion of this program are U.S. universities and U.S. non-profit research institutions. NSF support for a project will not exceed five years duration with a maximum yearly cost of $1,000,000. NSF funding for this program will vary according to funding availability and opportunities for co-sponsorship. IV. AWARD INFORMATION Estimated program budget, number of awards and average award size/duration are subject to the availability of funds. V. PROPOSAL PREPARATION AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS A. Proposal Preparation Instructions Letters of Intent: Optional: Due One Month Prior to Proposal Submission Letters of Intent are encouraged to assist the program in administrative and review preparation. Organizations or persons considering submission of a proposal should send an electronic mail message with the following statement: "I am interested in submitting a proposal to the International Digital Libraries Program," and include the title and brief abstract of the proposed work, as much as is known of the list of participants, including the foreign participants, and the source of funds anticipated for the foreign partners. Letters of intent will not be refereed or evaluated but should contain sufficient information about the topic to help in the selection of reviewers. Submit the letter of intent as an electronic mail message to: idli2@nsf.gov Full Proposal: Proposals submitted in response to this program announcement/solicitation should be prepared and submitted in accordance with the general guidelines contained in the NSF Grant Proposal Guide (GPG). The complete text of the GPG is available electronically on the NSF Web Site at: http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?gpg. Paper copies of the GPG may be obtained from the NSF Publications Clearinghouse, telephone (301) 947-2722 or by e-mail from pubs@nsf.gov. Proposals submitted in response to this program announcement/solicitation should be prepared and submitted in accordance with the general guidelines contained in the NSF Grant Proposal Guide (GPG). The complete text of the GPG is available electronically on the NSF Web Site at: http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?gpg. Paper copies of the GPG may be obtained from the NSF Publications Clearinghouse, telephone (301) 947-2722 or by e-mail from pubs@nsf.gov. Proposers are reminded to identify the program solicitation number (Not Specified) in the program announcement/solicitation block on the Cover Sheet For Proposal to the National Science Foundation. Compliance with this requirement is critical to determining the relevant proposal processing guidelines. Failure to submit this information may delay processing. GPG guidelines should be augmented with the following additions. Up to 5 additional pages are allowed to describe the plan of work and management plan. This section should be clearly labeled "Plan of Work and Management Plan" and should be included as Supplementary Documentation in Fastlane. It will not be included in the project description page count. It should include the following information: Plan of work: * what the primary research questions are, * what information resource is to be used in the project, * what area will be investigated, * who is likely to use the information and for what purposes,and * what benefits are expected to flow from the project, and how these might be assessed and measured. Management plan: * details of how cooperation is to be carried out and coordinated, * description of and justification for the partitioning of the research activities, * processes to be used for coordinating and evaluating progress, and * strategy for long-term maintenance and sustainability. Biographical information should be provided for all investigators in the collaborative effort, both U.S. and non-U.S., in the Biographical Sketches form in Fastlane. Citations to participant publications which appeared in printed and electronic journals after July 1, 1998 are encouraged to be given. A letter of endorsement from the foreign counterparts, which identifies the source of support for the non-US activities, is required and should also be provided as Supplementary Documentation in Fastlane. Proposers are reminded to identify the program solicitation number (NSF-02-085) in the program announcement/solicitation block on the proposal Cover Sheet. Compliance with this requirement is critical to determining the relevant proposal processing guidelines. Failure to submit this information may delay processing. B. Budgetary Information Cost sharing is not required in proposals submitted under this Program Solicitation. C. Deadline/Target Dates Proposals must be submitted by the following date(s): Letters of Intent (optional): March 15 of each year except FY 2002 For FY 2002: April 27 Full Proposals: April 15 of each year except FY 2002. For FY 2002: June 3. Program is active each year until cancelled D. FastLane Requirements Proposers are required to prepare and submit all proposals for this Program Solicitation through the FastLane system. Detailed instructions for proposal preparation and submission via FastLane are available at: http://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/a1/newstan.htm. For FastLane user support, call 1-800-673-6188 or e-mail fastlane@nsf.gov. Submission of Electronically Signed Cover Sheets. The Authorized Organizational Representative (AOR) must electronically sign the proposal Cover Sheet to submit the required proposal certifications (see Chapter II, Section C of the Grant Proposal Guide for a listing of the certifications). The AOR must provide the required certifications within five working days following the electronic submission of the proposal. Further instructions regarding this process are available on the FastLane website at: http://www.fastlane.nsf.gov. VI. PROPOSAL REVIEW INFORMATION A. NSF Proposal Review Process Reviews of proposals submitted to NSF are solicited from peers with expertise in the substantive area of the proposed research or education project. These reviewers are selected by Program Officers charged with the oversight of the review process. NSF invites the proposer to suggest, at the time of submission, the names of appropriate or inappropriate reviewers. Care is taken to ensure that reviewers have no conflicts with the proposer. Special efforts are made to recruit reviewers from non-academic institutions, minority-serving institutions, or adjacent disciplines to that principally addressed in the proposal. The two merit review criteria are listed below. The criteria include considerations that help define them. These considerations are suggestions and not all will apply to any given proposal. While proposers must address both merit review criteria, reviewers will be asked to address only those considerations that are relevant to the proposal being considered and for which he/she is qualified to make judgements. What is the intellectual merit of the proposed activity? How important is the proposed activity to advancing knowledge and understanding within its own field or across different fields? How well qualified is the proposer (individual or team) to conduct the project? (If appropriate, the reviewer will comment on the quality of the prior work.) To what extent does the proposed activity suggest and explore creative and original concepts? How well conceived and organized is the proposed activity? Is there sufficient access to resources? What are the broader impacts of the proposed activity? How well does the activity advance discovery and understanding while promoting teaching, training, and learning? How well does the proposed activity broaden the participation of underrepresented groups (e.g., gender, ethnicity, disability, geographic, etc.)? To what extent will it enhance the infrastructure for research and education, such as facilities, instrumentation, networks, and partnerships? Will the results be disseminated broadly to enhance scientific and technological understanding? What may be the benefits of the proposed activity to society? NSF staff will give careful consideration to the following in making funding decisions: Integration of Research and Education One of the principal strategies in support of NSF's goals is to foster integration of research and education through the programs, projects, and activities it supports at academic and research institutions. These institutions provide abundant opportunities where individuals may concurrently assume responsibilities as researchers, educators, and students and where all can engage in joint efforts that infuse education with the excitement of discovery and enrich research through the diversity of learning perspectives. Integrating Diversity into NSF Programs, Projects, and Activities Broadening opportunities and enabling the participation of all citizens -- women and men, underrepresented minorities, and persons with disabilities -- is essential to the health and vitality of science and engineering. NSF is committed to this principle of diversity and deems it central to the programs, projects, and activities it considers and supports. Additional Review Criteria Special Criteria used for this Program: 1. Does the proposal represent new research in the area of digital libraries, and does it contain new scientific ideas and methods? 2. Does the project demonstrate the need for and advantages of shared international activities, and exploit, as appropriate, new communications methods to link its teams? 3. Are the research groups interacting as true collaborators, displaying complementary and comparable levels of professional expertise? 4. Does the management plan provide mechanisms for effective communication, coordination, progress assessment, and flexibility? 5. Should the research be successful, how many people will benefit from the new technology created? 6. Should the research be successful, how will the content be made available to communities of users? 7. Do the previous efforts of the research teams demonstrate their competence and support their likelihood of achieving the goals of the project? 8. If the work is successful at creating a new information service, does the proposal include a plan by which that service will be continued after the research funding ends, and how credible is that plan? 9. How effective is the project plan to disseminate results, share resources and enable others to draw upon the products of the project effort? A summary rating and accompanying narrative will be completed and submitted by each reviewer. In all cases, reviews are treated as confidential documents. Verbatim copies of reviews, excluding the identities of reviewers, are sent to the Principal Investigator/Project Director by the Program Director. In addition, the proposer will receive an explanation of the decision to award or decline funding. B. Review Protocol and Associated Customer Service Standard All proposals are carefully reviewed by at least three other persons outside NSF who are experts in the particular field represented by the proposal. Proposals submitted in response to this announcement/solicitation will be reviewed by Mail Review. Reviewers will be asked to formulate a recommendation to either support or decline each proposal. The Program Officer assigned to manage the proposal's review will consider the advice of reviewers and will formulate a recommendation. NSF is striving to be able to tell applicants whether their proposals have been declined or recommended for funding within six months. The time interval begins on the closing date of an announcement/solicitation or the date of proposal receipt (whichever is later). The interval ends when the Division Director accepts the Program Officer's recommendation. 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