what can campus leaders do about cyberinfrastructure? sally jackson for the workshop on campus...

What Can Campus Leaders Do About Cyberinfrastructure?

Sally JacksonFor the workshop on Campus Leadership Engagement in

Building a Coherent Campus CyberinfrastructureOctober 11, 2010

AgencyCampus

PI

Researcher Practice

Campus Cost Structure

F&A Rate Calculation

Total Project Budgets

ROI per $ Awarded

Agency Practice

Researchers & research officers

Campus planning & budgeting

Funding agencies

pas-de-trois

twister

Who can do what to get all of us off the rubber mat?

Another paper on cyberinfrastructure

advice to the CIC Provosts from their Chief Information Officers

Note: Nebraska will join in 2011.

Effective voluntary collaboration among research universities

-- better outcomes for each member

-- innovative solutions to problems for the common good

Good Practices

• Actually plan.• Share at highest level possible.• Treat funding models as alignment tools.• Design good governance structures.• Assess cyberinfrastructure impact.

6 High Priorities

• Federated identity management.• State-of-the-art networks.• Institutional stewardship of research data.• Consolidation of computing resources.• Expansion of CI support to all disciplines.• Exploration of cloud computing.

Provostial Response:“Blueprints for Action”

• Federated identity management.• State-of-the-art networks.• Institutional stewardship of research data.• Consolidation of computing resources.• Expansion of CI support to all disciplines.• Exploration of cloud computing.• Scholarly communication.

Provosts in the Blueprints

• Thought leadership• Direct personal advocacy among peers• Lobbying for regulatory change• Assistance in engaging other interests on

campus• Sparingly: financial commitment

CIOs in the Blueprints

Joint & individual projects• InCommon “compact”• Shared storage initiative & curation projects• Big Digital Machine• Shared clustersInfluence attempts• On campus• Among research universities CIOs• Within our own reporting units

What Can Campus Leaders Do About Cyberinfrastructure?