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?