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If your grant involves the generation of morphological data matrices and/or 2D or 3D images that you would like to deposit as part of your publication, then MorphoBank can work with you to add text and budget to your grant proposal. Such contributions from the community help to sustain MorphoBank as an important scientific resource.
Curation
(this section struck me as potentially confusing because someone might stop after reading it concluding that if they do not have tons of data that they do not need to list MorphoBank in their grant). I would start with the next section and perhaps move this to the end and give it a title something like "Curation and budgeting in cases of very large datasets")
There is no charge for researchers to create, modify, and store their morphological data matrices or media in MorphoBank. However, in cases where there are large amounts of image data (hundreds or thousands of media taking many GB of space) that need to be bulk uploaded with associated metadata, we request that you include a budget for this data wrangling and curation work. This may be entered as a fee for the MorphoBank data repository in your Budget Justification. Please contact us for an estimate.
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MorphoBank (www.morphobank.org) is an open access database and curation platform that makes morphological data matrices that are linked to peer-reviewed publications easily discoverable and freely available for reuse. MorphoBank mints DOIs as the persistent digital identifiers at both the Project and Matrix level. DOIs are issued at the time of project publication and the projects themselves link back to the originating publication. MorphoBank's data and media are backed up on a weekly basis. MorphoBank strongly encourages grant funded users at institutions that are not currently supporting MorphoBank through membership fees to include funding in their grant proposals to help ensure safe, secure, and free distribution of these data for future researchers. Funds requested in this proposal were calculated in collaboration with MorphoBank staff. |
Requests for New Feature Development
If you have an idea for a new feature that could make benefit the MorphoBank even bettercommunity, we are excited to discuss options with you and determine what the development effort would cost. After getting a good idea of the requirements of the feature, we will consult with our tech team to see how many programming hours the development, testing, and release would involve. We may also consult our Executive Committee and Advisory Board to evaluate the usefulness of the tool to the community (I thought some qualification might be necessary in case this could be read as we will do anything someone has money for). The cost estimate can be included in your grant as a direct expense to be used to fund that development effort. Please contact us at curator@morphobank.org so that we can work together on making your idea a reality.
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