NSF today has posted a new funding track in their Office of Cyberinfrastructure entitled Sustainable Digital Data Preservation and Access Network Partners (DataNet) - http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07601/nsf07601.htm
The goal of the program is to:
Science and engineering research and education are increasingly digital and increasingly data-intensive. Digital data are not only the output of research but provide input to new hypotheses, enabling new scientific insights and driving innovation. Therein lies one of the major challenges of this scientific generation: how to develop the new methods, management structures and technologies to manage the diversity, size, and complexity of current and future data sets and data streams. This solicitation addresses that challenge by creating a set of exemplar national and global data research infrastructure organizations (dubbed DataNet Partners) that provide unique opportunities to communities of researchers to advance science and/or engineering research and learning.
