Library Engagement with E-Science

Wendy Pradt Lougee, University of Minnesota

Neil Rambo, ARL Visiting Program Officer

Association of Research Libraries

Coral Gables, May 2008

E-Science Working Group AGENDA

• Education: programs, shared models

• Resources: glossary, talking points, policy/project inventories

• Research infrastructure: data access/management/preservation, systems/tools

• Policy: new publication models, open data

UMN Case Studies: 4 Interviews

PI & IT

these are all very busy people

biological macromolecules biological macromolecules in solutionin solution

a biological simulations research groupa biological simulations research group

Photo Credit: Desi Refridgerator by VIjay Pandey

a biological simulations research group

12members 250GBdrives 1TBRAID

bound2researcher jointstudent inheritance

RNAdb code backupadmin queues

supercomputing msi

Photo Credit: Desi Refridgerator by VIjay Pandey

magnetic resonance imagingmagnetic resonance imaging

a medical imaging laboratorya medical imaging laboratory

Photo Credit: 4604_0621_Magnets by podiluska

Photo Credit: 4604_0621_Magnets by podiluska

a medical imaging laboratory

alltrades auditor centralservers littlesupport

webapps osstoolkits virtualization

cmrr5TBlimit bottleneck

tossthemiddle AFS

saving the world saving the world with bill and melindawith bill and melinda

a worldwide data harvest projecta worldwide data harvest project

Photo Credit: Wheat by Bern@t

Photo Credit: Wheat by Bern@t

a worldwide data harvest project

betterdatasets hosting thirdparties

development storage tens2hundredsTB

CSdept bibdata

commercialoption

agilepartner followon

counting the world counting the world from minnesotafrom minnesota

a large social science research centera large social science research center

Photo Credit: Crowd! by Tar_zan

Photo Credit: Crowd! by Tar_zan

a large social science research center

grant2grant claoit digitaldata

networkstorage 35TB+ scrubprivate

integration giganet newonoldrefresh trust dimarchive partnership organic

Photo Credit: VIjay Pandey, podiluska, Bern@t, Tar_zan

Photo Credit: VIjay Pandey, podiluska, Bern@t, Tar_zan

accessible storage scaleable

sharable domainaware

assistance sysadmin engineering development

planningstage

grant2grant

flexifunding nopayasyougo seed

collaborate ready campuslevel partner

From Here to Enterprise:Major Gaps

• Infrastructure and Coordinated Services: central & distributed IT services, library

• Capacity that Scales to Demand – within institution, across institutions

• Leveraging expertise and aligning resources

• Economic Models: contrasting funding models, operating policies and practices across units

A Tale of 2 Institutions

MINNESOTA

•Behavioral assessment

•Research Cyberinfrastructure Alliance

•Libraries e-science collaborative

•Defining new liaison roles

WASHINGTON

•Assessment of biosciences

•Director of Cyberinfrastructure Initiatives (Library)

•Collaboration in a DataNet proposal

•University-wide eScience Institute

Questions for Discussion• What are current and emerging service needs of

scientific communities?

• What are the challenges to serving multi-institutional research teams?

• Other useful models?

• What expertise is unique to libraries?

• What organizational structure works best to respond effectively to research teams?

• What knowledge/skills/abilities does a librarian need to be a member of a research team?

• What models are there for libraries to partner with CS/informatics R & D?