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D. E. [email protected]
Invited AddressForum to Consider the Implications for Research
Libraries and Research InstitutionsOctober 15, 2004, Washington, D.C.
A
Conversation about
E-Research and the Supporting
Cyberinfrastructure
Daniel E. AtkinsSchool of
Information & Department of
EECSUniversity of
Michigan, [email protected]
u
University of Michigan
School of Informationwww.si.umich.edu
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Talk Overview•Background, Concepts,
Definitions
•Functional Components of Cyberinfrastructure
•Some implications for research libraries.
•Prototype CKCs, e.g. the NVO
•Broader Implications and Hopes
•Questions and Discussion
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“a new age has dawned in scientific and engineering research, pushed by continuing progress in computing, information, and communication technology, and pulled by the expanding complexity, scope, and scale of today’s challenges. The capacity of this technology has crossed thresholds that now make possible a comprehensive “cyberinfrastructure” on which to build new types of scientific and engineering knowledge environments and organizations and to pursue research in new ways and with increased efficacy.”
•http://www.cise.nsf.gov/sci/reports/toc.cfm•http://www.cise.nsf.gov/sci/reports/toc.cfm
NSF Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure
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Terms•Cyberinfrastructure•infrastructure•cyber
•Cyberinfrastructure-enabled•knowledge communities (CKCs)
•learning, research, engagement
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Converging Streams of Activity
Science-driven pilots (not using above labels)
E-science
Collaboratories Home Land Securityhttp://web.calit2.net/RiskReduction/index.html
Cyberscience
IT & Future of Higher Education
GRIDS (broadly defined)
2nd Editionwww.mkp.com/grid2
ACLS Panel
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Cyberinfrastructure Goals
•More applications, capabilities, efficiency
•Reuse and multiple-use of designs; capture of commonality
•Spread of best practice
•Achieving interoperability
•Provision of tools and services
•Shared facilities
•Assistance and expertise
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Networked Information(Knowledge) Society
R&D, Deployment of Digital LibrariesInstitutions:
LibrariesArchivesMuseums
Application of
Distributed Computing
Visions & Needs of
Individuals, Communitie
s)
Digital Information & Communication Technology (electro-optical-magnetic)
Global Information Infrastructure
Global Cyberinfrastructure
Cyberinfrastructure-Enabled Knowledge Communities (CKCs)
Other
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Some Names for CKCs
•Co-laboratory, Collaboratory
•Grid Community
•e-X Community (as in e-science)
•Cyber-X Community (as in cyberscience)
•Community Gateways or Portals
•Virtual Community, Virtual Organizations, e.g. (Inter) National Virtual Observatory
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Big Ideas•Global cyberinfrastructure (CI) can become a
platform for routine, effective distance-independent activities of knowledge communities. These CI-enabled virtual communities are becoming functionally complete. (Goal is not to eliminate same time and place collaboration, but rather to augment it.)
•World-scale collaborative teams can be common place.
•Cyberinfrastructure offers new options for what is done, how it is done, and who participates.
•The digital library community has made large contributions to creating this vision.
•We now have the opportunity (and responsibility) to help make it real.
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Core Middleware•Identity and Identifiers – namespaces, identifier
crosswalks, real world levels of assurance, etc.
•Authentication – campus technologies and policies, interrealm interoperability via PKI, Kerberos, etc.
•Directories – enterprise directory services architectures and tools, standard objectclasses, interrealm and registry services
•Authorization – permissions and access controls, delegation, privacy management, etc.
•Integration Activities – open management tools, application of virtual, federated and hierarchical trust, enabling common applications with core middleware
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Mellon Foundation Higher-Ed Open Source
ProjectsProject Description
Pubcookie
Authentication system including “single sign on.”
OKI Open standards for sharing digital objects.PKI Inter-institutional public key infrastructure.ePortfolio
Electronic portfolio tools for higher ed.
uPortal Web portal development software.AAM Tool for managing course assignments & tests.LionShare
Authenticated P2P networks for legit file sharing.
SAKAI Feature-rich course management system.OCW Free worldwide access to educational content.
VUEVisual understanding environment for digital content.
Chandler Personal information manager for higher ed.DSpace Digital repository system federation.
FedoraFlexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture.
http://rit.mellon.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/PubcookieTwiki
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Virginia Tech Terascale Cluster (1,100 Mac
G5s)
http://computing.vt.edu/research_computing/terascale/
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NEESgrid Earthquake Engineering Collaboratory
U.Nevada Reno
www.neesgrid.org
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Reconstructions of Dendritic Spines by High
Performance Parallel Electron Tomography
This 3MeV Electron Microscope in Osaka Japan is the Biggest in
World
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Embedded Sensors: R&D and Use
Ocean Research Interactive Observatory Networks
http://www.coreocean.org/Dev2Go.web?Anchor=orion_home_page&rnd=17953
http://www.nsf.gov/bio/neon/start.htm
National Ecological Observatory Network
(NEON)
http://www.cens.ucla.edu/index.html
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Electronic Visualization Labhttp://www.evl.uic.edu
Tele-Immersive Collaboration in the CAVE Research Network
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Time-Space Collaboration
Physically together...
Drop in lab, physical library,
museumAudio, chat,
video conference,
group applications
Email, threaded-
discussions, shared files...
Same
Same
Different
Different
Time
Place
distance matters beyond being there
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Increased Demand for Data Curation
Services•Supercomputer simulations of complex systems require multidisciplinary expertise, computational models and data.
•Increased power of data mining.
•Enormous data streams from smart sensor arrays.
•Data validation and metadata quality enhancement over time.
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Information Services for CKCs•Online access to complete credentialled,
archival literature.
•Stewardship and curation services for enormous collections of scientific data.
•Digital repositories for diverse digital objects as instructional material and works in progress.
•Digitized special collections.
•More continuous (vs. batch) and open forms of scholarly communication.
•Individual and community customization information services.
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Challenges in Digital Archiving and Long-Term Preservation
http://www.si.umich.edu/digarch/http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/index.php
Research Issues!
Includes “Preserving Our Digital Heritage”
report & “Time” report.
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We are at an inflection point in the curve of IT
impact...•CKCs are being developed by science communities not merely to do faster-better-cheaper what they have been doing.
•CKCs support doing new things, new ways.
•Long-term, billion dollar projects are being pursued that cannot be done without advanced cyberinfrastructure.
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The Initial Facility at
Sondrestrom, Greenland
The University of Michigan Upper Atmospheric Research Collaboratory
(UARC)
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UARC Interface
team chat
dynamic work
rooms
Real-time instruments
Archival data Journals
computational models
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Vignettes from UARC/SPARC
• Shared, tele-instruments & expertise.• Rapid response, opportunistic campaigns.• Multi-eyes, complementary expertise.• Isolated instruments became a global instrument chain.• Cross-mentoring/training.• New & earlier opportunities/exposure for grad students.• Enhanced participation. Legitimate peripheral
participation.• Support for authentic, inquiry-based learning at UG and
pre-college level.• Distributed workshops for post-campaign data analysis.• Session re-play for delayed participation.• Data-theory closure.• A “living specification” to stretch vision of possibilities.
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Potential for CKCs•Reduced constraints of time and space; Can use all four combinations of time and place.
•Enhanced sharing, re-use and multi-use of resources.
•New computationally based tools for modeling, simulation, visualization. (third mode)
•New levels of comprehensive access to archival and real-time multimedia data, information, knowledge
•Facilitation of experiential learning
•Rapid response to the unexpected.
•Acceleration of cycles of discovery.
•Capture of process; not just end results
•More open forms of publications and artifact sharing.
•New “and-and” organizational forms.
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Crab Nebula in 4 spectral regions:X-ray, optical, infrared, radio
http://www.us-vo.org/
Virtual Observatory Prototype Produces Surprise Discovery. Early demo project identifies new brown dwarf.
http://www.us-vo.org/news/brown-dwarf.html
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CI-enabled Learning, Engagement And Research
(CLEAR)
CKCMovement
OpenessMovement
Pasteur’s Quadrant
Numerous collaboratories
Global Seminars Increasing
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Creation of knowledge:
basic, curiosity-
driven research
Application of
knowledge
Focus on New Knowledge Creation?
Focus on Application?No
No
Yes
Yes
Edison
Bohr Pasteur
Pasteur’s Quadrant Research Model
Classic Research Model
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Could CKCs be the basis for new types of world
research universities (WRU)?•Could a WRU be much more inclusive
in who participations?
•Can we find new synergy between global commonality and regional diversity (cultural)?
•Could a WRU be a strategic force for social good?
• Is it worth exploring this topic further? How?
Something to think about.....
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Stakeholder Alliances Required
Users: TransformativeApplication
Creators & Providers
Sponsors: Funding & Policy
Disciplinary and Project Groups, Universities,
NGOs, Int. Devel. & BOP Projects
NSF, NIH, DoE, JISC, EU, CSIR, Mellon, Hewlett, Kellogg, Moore, IDRC,
MS-CA, State Gov., Universities
CISE & SBE R&D; PACIs, Res. Libs., CNI, ARL, Educause, UCAID, IT
Industry, Acad. IT Orgs. Open Source Comm.
Three symmetric, interlocking rings, no two of which are interlinked. Removing one destroys the construct.
Borromean Rings
