JISC

JISC invites proposals to develop software toolkits and demonstrators that align with the strategic aims of the JISC/DEST e-Framework for Education and Research. This is the fourth call in the JISC e-Learning Programme Framework and Tools Strand for software development projects and will focus on adding web services APIs to existing applications and on demonstrators that use web services APIs to enhance education and research. JISC invites proposals to:

a)  Develop a toolkit to develop web services APIs for existing applications along with software development kits (SDKs) that enable developers to use the web services APIs in one or more popular programming languages.

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b)  Develop a demonstrator to develop applications or services that consume documents from web services APIs and/or submit documents to web service APIs. The web service APIs can be either web service APIs from an existing ELF Toolkit or from an institutional system that was not developed as part of the JISC e-Learning Programme.

A total of £400,000 is available for this work and as a general guideline it is anticipated that most projects will be awarded funding of between £30,000 and £40,000 depending on the extent and complexity of the work involved. Requests for additional funds, of up to £10,000, will also be considered for projects that need to commission work from previous projects or original application developer(s) in order to support the new project.

Project duration will be six months and successful projects will be expected to start as soon as possible and no later than 2 January 2007 with submission of the final work on or before 30 June 2007.