Hi Aletia, <div><br></div><div>To echo the points raised by others and support your observations, I thought I'd point you to a quick-and-dirty thematic assembly of excerpts from all the NSF guidelines, in case it is helpful:</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://researchremix.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/revised-nsf/">http://researchremix.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/revised-nsf/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Particularly the "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">What is considered “data”/research results covered by this policy ?" </span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">section.</font></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Some of the directorates are quite specific.... but others aren't. I agree, I hope the guidelines are updated as the policies become more clear through use!</font></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Cheers, </font></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Heather</font></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><br>
</span></font></div><div><div>--</div>Heather Piwowar<div><br>DataONE postdoc with NESCent and Dryad</div><div> studying research data sharing and reuse<br> remotely from Dept of Zoology, UBC, Vancouver Canada<br><a href="http://researchremix.org" target="_blank">http://researchremix.org</a><br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 6:03 AM, Aletia Morgan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ahmorgan@vpr.rutgers.edu">ahmorgan@vpr.rutgers.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Good morning!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">I appreciate everyone’s comments – especially seeing that some of the instructions from the different directorates are different. And Sherry, I am in full agreement with you that a lot of the written requirements are just too vague at this point – I hope that NSF will post updates in the not-too-distant future. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">I think this kind of clarification of intent will continue to be a topic for some time…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Thanks,</span></p><div class="im"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Aletia</span></p>
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