Looking at the EPSRC website I came across the following call for proposals involving collaboration between a US and UK programme:
http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/CallsForProposals/NSF-EPSRCChemistryProposals07.htm
Now, being an academic I’m up for any method of trying to get money out the system, especially special programmes. But is there an opportunity here to do something quite exciting in the area of Open Notebooks for chemistry where we take Jean-Claude’s experience and our Lab Blogbook system and try to build something that combines the best of both or possibly better, something which is a superset of both? Biggest issue I can see is that it might not be seen as chemistry, but if we focus on the idea of getting the chemical data both in and back out again it might fly.
Deadline for outline applications is November 6th…