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    • CommentAuthorIan_Durham
    • CommentTimeJun 2nd 2010
    • (edited Jun 2nd 2010)
    I know a lot of you are not US-based, so you may not know the answer to this question, but something quirky just came up and I was wondering if anyone had had experience with it before in relation to the nLab.

    So, all the colleges and universities in the state of New Hampshire (Dartmouth, U. of New Hampshire, Saint Anselm, Franklin Pierce, etc.) are putting together a massive grant proposal for the National Science Foundation (NSF). It's complicated to explain the details, but suffice it to say I'm going to end up as a PI or Co-PI on a couple of sub-projects. The NSF requires this very specific "biosketch" of all major participants and in the list of requirements is the following:

    Collaborators and Co-Editors. A list of all persons in alphabetical order (including their current organizational affiliations) who are currently, or who have been collaborators or co-authors with the individual on a project, book, article, report, abstract or paper during the 48 months preceding the submission of the proposal. Also include those individuals who are currently or have been co-editors of a journal, compendium, or conference proceedings during the 24 months preceding the submission of the proposal. If there are no collaborators or co-editors to report, this should be so indicated.



    Clearly the typical wiki wouldn't fall under the above. But the nLab is different. It's clearly more like a compendium or project and individual entries can take on the status of articles. Since it's still a wiki, though, it is impossible to list all of one's "collaborators" or "co-authors." In my mind the NSF ought to make allowances for such things in the future (and, in fact, I tossed it in anyway) just as they will need, at some point, to acknowledge that in some sub-fields peer-review is either dying a slow death or evolving away from the typical print journals.

    So my question is, has anyone had any experience with trying to get a funding agency to recognize the nLab as more than just a typical wiki? I'm sure journal editors will be easier to convince so I'm really interested in how the bureaucrats are viewing this endeavor (if they even know it exists).

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