(05-02-2025, 04:09 AM)BessAgritianin wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.There is a grant of money, or prize identified by some one.
What you described looks like a grant, the team gets money upfront (or according to some schedule) for research. I'm not from academia, but that's my understanding of how grants are supposed to work.
I suppose there have been some grants issued for VMS related research before, at least somewhere in the world. I'm also absolutely sure that at least one person with expertise from each of the fields you mentioned spent at least some time on the MS in the past 100 years. To me it looks far from certain that a dedicated team you described guarantees a breakthrough.
And then there is the possibility that the manuscript is meaningless, but not provably meaningless. So one can spend grant after grant after grant and never get any result. And it is possible that there are no other extant related documents anywhere in archives in the world. So, no matter how much money you spend, you'll get nothing.
Let me also approach this from a different angle, your list has position #4 "experienced in image processing". While I don't have any relevant credentials, and image processing is not on my CV, I have some experience in image processing and I do answer to at least some of requests related to processing VMS images on this forum. I do this for free, and I would rather do this for free in my free time at the pace I see comfortable, instead of being bound by any kind of agreement. I cannot speak for others, I can imagine you can always find professionals in need for money, but I suppose for most of the proposed positions there is already someone providing high quality feedback. And we are talking about years or sometimes decades of high quality feedback. So, again, I'm not sure a grant or a prize would improve anything here.