Funding Opportunities: NIH Data Commons Pilot Phase

Here is the announcements from NIH:

"This Other Transaction Research Opportunity Announcement (OT ROA) is developed as a Common Fund Initiative through the NIH Office of the Director, Office of Strategic Coordination. The Research Opportunity Announcement will be administered by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) on behalf of the NIH.

Awards made under this OT ROA will support the NIH Data Commons Pilot Phase Consortium (DCPPC). In addition to awards made under this ROA, the DCPPC will include contractors engaged by the NIH, data providers funded via NIH grants as described below, and NIH staff.

The purpose of this announcement is to invite applications from applicants who have an interest in performing high impact, cutting-edge scientific and computing activities necessary to establish an NIH Data Commons. NIH expects to make several OT awards under this funding opportunity.

In the first stage, awardees will design innovative solutions that meet the needs of one or more of the computational, data and scientific key capabilities of 2 the Data Commons. It is expected that awardees will participate collectively as a consortium and work cooperatively toward achieving NIH’s comprehensive vision for an interoperable, FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) compliant, multi-cloud NIH Data Commons founded on open source and open standards. The Commons will be designed to comply with the principles of making digital objects FAIR. In the second stage, the solutions developed by the DCPPC will be implemented. 

Please note that submission of a Letter of Intent (LOI) is required and it's due on June 30, 2017 (5:00 PM United States Eastern Time)."

For more information: https://commonfund.nih.gov/sites/default/files/RM-17-026_CommonsPilotPhase.pdf