FYI, a group of collaborators (Arlin Stoltzfus, Karen Cranston, Sheldon McKay, Enrico Pontelli, Nico Cellinese, and myself) under the leadership of Arlin recently pulled together a grant application for the NSF Interop solicitation. The ideas for the grant emerged mostly from the recent Database Interoperability Hackathon (for which I posted the announcement and Call for Participation here back in Jan). Proposal summary and full text are public at the following URL: http://evoinfo.nescent.org/NSF_Interop_Proposal It was submitted July 22. If funded, TDWG and this Interest Group will play a significant role in the proposed activities. We probably won't hear about reviews or funding before Feb/March next year, so keep fingers crossed until then. Cheers, -hilmar -- =========================================================== : Hilmar Lapp -:- Durham, NC -:- hlapp at duke dot edu : ===========================================================