Hi John,<br><br>Very sorry for the delay in my reply; I have been struggling to catch up on email since the ImageJDev announcement. I have CCed the ImageJDev list, since other developers may have interest.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><p><font size="2" face="Arial">My question is this: Would the scope of
the long term interest include a means that would link up agencies that
have funding for developmental projects involving ImageJ with possible
developers? In other words, is there a means to facilitate requests for
proposals (RFPs) to the ImageJ community for development of new
applications of ImageJ? </font><font size="2" face="Arial">Or perhaps something like a centralized
technical advisory resource to assist and to evaluate the same? </font></p></div></blockquote><div><br>An infrastructure for RFP submission and tracking is a good idea. It is not something we proposed in the initial two-year application, but would definitely be of interest in the long term, and we would be glad to host such a system on the <a href="http://imagejdev.org" target="_blank">imagejdev.org</a> web site. Do you have any idea what would be entailed, technically, in setting up and maintaining such a centralized technical advisory resource?<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><p><font size="2" face="Arial">For example, in our particular need, ORI
is curious whether ImageJ could be applied to searches for specific user
defined feature content in a library of scientific images (just as a
first stage problem), much like what Apple does for the face-recognition
feature in its iPhoto application. Obviously, we could announce this
interest and funding availability on our website; but the first question
is what is feasible . . . what we or other possible supporters of new
ideas need is access to the technical expertise/advice to develop and
assess the RFP. (The ImageJ bulletin board really isn’t set up for this
purpose, but this approach is one way the former Nanofabrication
Facility at Cornell worked to assist development.) Thus new
applications in ImageJ might be also advanced through a centralized
place/resource where requests for proposals involving RFPs for different
application appeared together?</font></p></div></blockquote><div><br>Our funding as of now is largely focused on software engineering, for the development of a modular image processing core and next-generation ImageJ interface. As such, there will not be a lot of new plugin development initially (though we do plan to expand on ImageJ's multidimensional visualization capabilities partially via plugins).<br>
</div></div><br>Another thing to be aware of is our sister project, Fiji, which has ImageJ at its core but focuses on algorithm and plugin development—the goal is to provide a single application that comes bundled with all the plugins necessary to do scientific image processing. The Fiji developers are gearing up for a proposal to the Google Summer of Code 2010 project (<a href="http://pacific.mpi-cbg.de/wiki/index.php/SoC_2010_Ideas" target="_blank">http://pacific.mpi-cbg.de/wiki/index.php/SoC_2010_Ideas</a>), so one more immediate option might be to propose your use case for that.<br>
</div></div><br>-Curtis<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Krueger, John (HHS/OPHS) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:John.Krueger@hhs.gov" target="_blank">John.Krueger@hhs.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p><font size="2" face="Arial">Curtis Rueden</font>
<br><font size="2" face="Arial">Systems Programmer</font>
<br><font size="2" face="Arial">Dept of Molecular Biology</font>
<br><font size="2" face="Arial">University of Wisconsin</font>
<br><font size="2" face="Arial">Madison, WI</font>
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<p><font size="2" face="Arial">My email is triggered by your notice on the ImageJ bulletin board this morning, regarding the LOCI's new NIH grant to advance the long term infra-structural support for ImageJ software. (Great idea!)</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial">My question is this: Would the scope of the long term interest include a means that would link up agencies that have funding for developmental projects involving ImageJ with possible developers? In other words, is there a means to facilitate requests for proposals (RFPs) to the ImageJ community for development of new applications of ImageJ? Or perhaps something like a centralized technical advisory resource to assist and to evaluate the same? </font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial">For example, in our particular need, ORI is curious whether ImageJ could be applied to searches for specific user defined feature content in a library of scientific images (just as a first stage problem), much like what Apple does for the face-recognition feature in its iPhoto application. Obviously, we could announce this interest and funding availability on our website; but the first question is what is feasible . . . what we or other possible supporters of new ideas need is access to the technical expertise/advice to develop and assess the RFP. (The ImageJ bulletin board really isn’t set up for this purpose, but this approach is one way the former Nanofabrication Facility at Cornell worked to assist development.) Thus new applications in ImageJ might be also advanced through a centralized place/resource where requests for proposals involving RFPs for different application appeared together? </font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial">I'd love to talk with you if you have any ideas or interest in this matter.</font>
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<p><font size="2" face="Arial">/s/</font>
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<p><font size="2" face="Arial">John W. Krueger, Ph.D.</font>
<br><font size="2" face="Arial">Scientist-Investigator</font>
<br><font size="2" face="Arial">Division of Investigative Oversight</font>
<br><font size="2" face="Arial">Office of Research Integrity</font>
<br><font size="2" face="Arial">DHHS</font></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div>