Today we received the news that our proposal at the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) for three years of funding for GlobaLID was successful! Being currently an unfunded side project for almost five years now, the proposal will allow us to finally turn GlobaLID into the research data infrastructure we envision it.
Besides the development of the research data infrastructure, the proposal focuses on community-building. We understand GlobaLID as a great opportunity to bring the lead isotope community closer together and to provide training to all colleagues interested in learning using lead isotope data for archaeological research. Moreover, such an infrastructure will only be widely accepted, if its major aspects were developed in close collaboration with the community, which requires constant discussion and feedback with its representatives. Only when doing so, GlobaLID will be able to match the needs of the community and to provide the functionality and usability that makes it a pleasant tool to work with. Consequently, the grant includes funding for the development of open educational resources to complement and extent our interactive textbook and for training and networking workshops. Exciting times are ahead!
Check out the GlobaLID webpage to stay tuned!
