Fourth Research Programm 1999 - 2002
1.3 Infrastructure
The MZES infrastructure comprises computer facilities, the library (with the information archive, QUIA), and the research archive EURODATA. The infrastructure primarily supports and promotes European research conducted at the MZES by collecting, providing, and updating various types of information and by providing access to and further updating of computer facilities at the Centre. In 1999 we will draw up the first Infrastructure Plan to adapt infrastructural services to the developments and requirements of European research at the MZES. This plan will give a detailed outline of the tasks to be performed in the different fields of infrastructure and will also highlight the relationships with current and planned research activities at the Centre.[4] The Infrastructure Plan is modified and approved at least once every year, when the annual update to the Research Programme has been ensured. Infrastructural tasks mentioned in the present Programme have therefore been restricted to their organizational aspects.
[4] If infrastructure staff is to be included to support a research project of the programme, the share of working hours that they devote to the project is determined in the Infrastructure Plan.