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[October 2004]
Pilot Project to Lay Foundations for Scientific Work of Future
FIZ Karlsruhe and the Max Planck Society (MPS) have been awarded funding of €6.1 million to develop a new platform for web-based collaborative scientific work. The new project - eSciDoc - will be jointly managed by FIZ Karlsruhe and MPS, who have entered into a strategic partnership for the purpose. FIZ will provide development and IT services and will operate central services.
The intention is to create an integrated information, communication and publication platform for web-based scientific work so that scientists working in the 80 research institutes of the Max Planck Society can collaborate.
The funding for eSciDoc - which will last for five years - is being provided by the German Federal Ministry of Education & Research under the framework of the German national eScience initiative.
www.fiz-karlsruhe.de
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