DGI Workshop on Sustainability in D-Grid

 

From October 9 to 10, 2008, the D-Grid Integration Project held a well-attended workshop at Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Participants came in from the DGI and all Community Grids. Also present at the meeting were evaluators and representatives of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the German Research Foundation (DFG), and the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) as well as international experts.

While communities in the natural science have benefited from international networking infrastuctures for a number of years, the target communities of TextGrid are not yet fully accustomed to e-networking. TextGrid being the first Community Grid in the Arts and Humanities, therefore, plays a pioneering role. In TextGrid, the foundations of an e-infrastructure have to be established. The question of how to build up, maintain and extend a user community is a keystone in TextGrid's sustainability model.

 

The papers of the workshop can be found at dgi.d-grid.de/index.php?id=408&L=1.

We will report on the workshop in greater detail in our next newsletter.

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