CrossRef's Fundref Pilot

FYI -

Here is a nice linked data endeavor among commercial and non-profit publishers and government and non-governmental funding bodies.

Gerald


What is it?

FundRef is a collaborative pilot project of scholarly publishers and funding agencies, facilitated by CrossRef, to provide a standard way of reporting funding sources for published scholarly research.
Why is it necessary?

Government and other research funders are accountable for reporting the research and development outcomes they support. One measure of this output is the publications that result from specific grants or other financial support. Funders do not currently have an easy or standard way to track publications that result from their funding. A combined solution for all funders eliminates the need for each to architect its own solution to the problem.

http://www.crossref.org/fundref/index.html