Research Cyberinfrastructure Alliance
This is a project brought to my attention by Wendy on 8 October 2007. Here are some notes…
Also, they have a nice research infrastructure web environment, including monthly newsletter:http://rc.uits.indiana.edu/ http://rc.uits.indiana.edu/newsletter/
NSF solicitation entitled Sustainable Digital Data Preservation and Access Network Partners (DataNet). http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07601/nsf07601.pdf
These cover Discovery/Interdisciplinary Research/Grad Students/ Data and can be found at: http://www.lib.umn.edu/about/scieval/documents.html
The full reports of these studies are also online: Humanities/Social Science research/scholarship (drawing on extensive survey and interviews) http://www.lib.umn.edu/about/mellon/docs.phtml
Science research (drawing on interviews): http://www.lib.umn.edu/about/scieval/Sci%20Report%20Final.pdf
Finally, if you are interested in reading more on e-science and data, I would recommend 2020 Science (excellent overview published by Microsoft): http://research.microsoft.com/towards2020science/downloads.htm
Association of Research Libraries and NSF sponsored workshop on data. Report at: http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/digdatarpt.pdf