1st Call for Project Proposals: PlanetData Programs

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PlanetData Programs - Call 1 Announcement

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PlanetData ( <http://www.planet-data.eu> www.planet-data.eu) is an EU
co-funded Network of Excellence
creating a durable community of academic and industrial partners. This
community is supported in conducting research in the large-scale data
management area through the provision of data sets and access to tailored
data management technology. It benefits from a comprehensive program of
training, dissemination, standardization, and networking activities,
intended to strengthen existing collaborations and establish new ones, to
educate organizations in key questions related to open data exposure, and
to transfer research results towards industry.

During the duration of PlanetData (2010-2014) the consortium issues open
calls to extend its expertise and to invite new partners to carry out
certain tasks within the project. Selected partner(s) will be eligible for
funding of research activities.

Call 1

The ICT project PlanetData has vacancies in the consortium for partners
having comprehensive research and technological expertise in the area of
"Consuming Linked Data".

Specific topics in the thematic area

We solicit proposals for research projects with a focus on demonstration
of developed technologies in a concrete application context making use of
publically available Linked Data sets. Relevant topics include but are not
limited to Web-scale data management, searching and querying, reasoning,
Linked Sensor Data, quality assessment and data curation, analytics and
mining, front-ends and visualisation, as well as business and incentives
models for data-driven services and applications. Submissions should
demonstrate the applicability of their research results with an
application that consumes data from the open Web, ideally of societal
value, including, but not limited to the following domains: public sector
information and statistical data, bibliographic and media sector
information, life sciences, Earth science and environmental data,
geospatial data, as well as transportation and urban management.

Facts and figures

Call open: The call will be open for submissions from 1st January 2011.
Deadline for submission of proposals: 16th February 2011, 17h00 Brussels
time.

Expected duration of participation in project: 4 to 12 months, starting
earliest in June 2011.

Proposal format: proposals can include one or more organizations eligible
for EU funding, and should have an indicative funding between 15,000 and
100,000 Euro.

Call identifier: PD-1-2011.

Language in which proposal should be submitted: English.

Email address for further information: alice DOT carpentier AT sti2 DOT at

PlanetData Programs Calls webpage:
<http://planet-data.eu/planetdata-programs>
http://planet-data.eu/planetdata-programs

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