Research Technology Facilitator Program

Researchers as centers of resource networks

Objective of the RTF

• Connect researchers to more resources without putting that task on the researcher

• Put researchers at the center of a vast web of resources

• Team up with local IT support

Services for Researchers

• Identify information and technology needs and resources

• Connect to information and technology resources

• Discuss research and potential role of IT

• Aggregate needs to identify new services needed

What is an RTF?

• Communication and leadership• University policies, procedures and

organization• Information management and

technical foundations

Communication and Leadership

• Elicitation techniques• Leadership and teamwork• Social networking• Analytical expertise• Translate between tech and non-tech• Negotiation techniques

University

• Grant proposal basics• University finance• University organization• Campus- and University-based

services• University policy, state law regarding

IT• Research compliance regulation

basics

Information ManagementTechnology Foundations

• HPC and networking• Data discovery, access, usage,

curation• Simulation, statistics, visualization• Principles of copyright, author rights• Metadata, text mining, text markup• National & regional CI resources

Current RTFs

• Volunteers• 7 IT pros– 2 central IT– 5 decentralized IT

Activities

• Leadership workshop in Summer 2010

• Building networks• Grant proposal basics• Data, data, data– Data storage inventory– Data curation profiles– Data stewardship prepartion

Contact

• To contact a Research Technology facilitatorrtfacilitators@illinois.edu

• More informationhttp://go.illinois.edu/rtf