UC Berkeley Research ITUC Berkeley Research IT

David Greenbaum, Director, Research IT (RIT), Office of the CIODavid Greenbaum, Director, Research IT (RIT), Office of the CIO

Five Questions for Today1. What services do you provide now? 2. Future Vision: Where do you want your campus to be in 5

years? 3. What does your research community want you to do?4. What is holding you back from reaching this vision?5. What are the right kind of things to do collaboratively with

other campuses, regional/national service providers? And what should be done locally?

I. Current ServicesI. Current Services

Some Basics about RIT@UCB

• History• 15 FTE; approx. 20 people.• $4 million budget. 1/3 IST Operating. 1/3

Chancellor/VCR/CIO for BRC. 1/3 Grants and one-time funds.

• Report to CIO. Partnership with VCR.• Major campus initiatives: Data Science for

research and for education.

RIT Services and Initiatives

1. Berkeley Research Computing (BRC)2. Digital Humanities3. Research Data Management4. Museum Informatics5. Consulting Communities6. Research IT Futures

Research and Academic Engagment Benchmarking

Define Research Share

Identify Peer Institutions

Gather Benchmarking Data from University Websites

Narrative Summary of Research Findings

Define Service Areas Record Data in Worksheets

Group Presentation & Discussion

Assign Researchers Follow-up Phone/Email Interviews

One Page Executive Summary

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Berkeley Peer Institutions

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Description

Criteria

Findings

Strategies for Improvement

Research Services Teaching & Learning Services

Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) 4 Online Courses 3

Research Data Management 4 Learning Management Systems & Support 3

Data Analysis: Quantitative & Qualitative 3 Instructional Content Creation 3

Data Visualization & GIS 3 Technology Enhanced Teaching & Learning 3

Preservation & Archival Services 4 Learning Spaces 3

Linked Open Data & Semantic Web 4 ePortfolio Support 4

Research Applications 3 Course & Program Evaluation 4

Museum, Archives, & Special Collections 2

Survey Research Support 3

Enabling Services

Collaboration & Communication 3 Portals, Dashboards & Aggregators 2

Video & Web Conferencing 3 Web Publishing 3

Google Apps for Education 4 Scholarly Networking 4

Software Licensing & Distribution 311

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RIT Services and Initiatives

1. Berkeley Research Computing (BRC)2. Digital Humanities3. Research Data Management4. Museum Informatics5. Consulting Communities6. Research IT Futures

Berkeley Research Computing

CONSULTING

CLOUD COMPUTING

CONDO/INSTITUTIONAL

CLUSTER

VIRTUALWORKSTATIONS

Condo/Institutional Cluster

CONSULTING

CLOUD COMPUTING

VIRTUALWORKSTATIONS

CONDO/INSTITUTIONAL

CLUSTER

Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud

CONSULTING

VIRTUALWORKSTATIONS

CONDO/INSTITUTIONAL

CLUSTER

CLOUD COMPUTING

Analytics Environments on Demand

CONSULTING

CONDO/INSTITUTIONAL

CLUSTER

CLOUD COMPUTING

VIRTUALWORKSTATIONS

… and Community

CLOUD COMPUTING

CONDO/INSTITUTIONAL

CLUSTER

VIRTUALWORKSTATIONS

CONSULTING

Consulting

#DH@Berkeley

• Project Bamboo 2008-12: Building context & connections

• Active projects:– Building Digital Humanities at Berkeley ($2M Mellon grant,

with Dean of Arts and Humanities, + VCRO support)– DiRT: Digital Research Tools directory (Mellon funded)– Prosopography Services (NEH funded, w/Near Eastern Studies)

• Additional work:– Free Speech Movement archives hackathon– Hack the Hearst (together with museum informatics)

Investing in DH

• Modest investment yields considerable reward

• Value of broad reach on campus– Together, Research Computing, Data Management,

and DH cover broad scope of campus departments– Surprising commonality and mobility across services– Important for support of big projects (like BRC)

• Consulting connects services/people– Domain specialty, but full-scope familiarity– Strong ties to partners, community

Research Data Management (RDM)

Source: DataONE primer on data management

Research Data Life Cycle

Post-GrantPost-Grant

ProposalProposal

ProjectProject

Research Project Life Cycle

Research and Academic Engagement Benchmarking

Benchmarking Criteria•Program coordination for campus wide collaborative approach to services•Data management planning tool or support (e.g., DMPTool)•Active research data management and curation•Data repository and/or preservation service•Data discovery, reuse, curation, and citation services•Consulting, training and workshops

Summary of Findings

CollectionSpace: A strategic platform for museum collections management

Progress in CollectionSpace Deployments

Objects Images Highlights

564,544 203,935 Public Portal Launched!

706,946 230,211* 81,000 new images added this year!

40,398 (None, yet!)

56,085 134,477Launch enables retirement of a costly legacy system!

20,219 2,100** Latest UCB Deployment: 11/3/14!

5 Deployments on Campus!

NB: Counts as of 11/18/2014* Not including catalog card images (200K+) and “not-for-public” images** Approx. number in rapid flux

Partnerships: Consulting

ResearcherResearcherEngagementEngagementResearcherResearcher

EngagementEngagement

Center for New Music and Audio TechnologiesCenter for New Music

and Audio Technologies

II. Future Vision II. Future Vision (grass should be green)(grass should be green)

II. Five Year Future - 5 Lenses

1. Tools and Services2. Faculty Engagement / Consulting Model3. Campus Partnerships4. Staff Development5. Finances and Fund Raising

Tools and Services: Grow Current

• Berkeley Research Computing: Full rollout of all BRC compute services: HPC – HTC – MPC; Cloud; Virtual Workstation; BRC Consulting. Ensure strong connection of BRC to faculty recruitment, retention, and grant submission.

• Research Data Management: Grow program so that all researchers have consulting and core data management services.

• Digital Humanities: Sustain model program after Mellon grant ends in 3 years. Ensure the humanities receive research IT support.

• CollectionSpace: Expand to other UC campuses! Look for LAM (Library, Archive, Museum) integrations both as a service and as partnerships.

Research Services Teaching & Learning Services

Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) 4 Online Courses 3

Research Data Management 4 Learning Management Systems & Support 3

Data Analysis: Quantitative & Qualitative 3 Instructional Content Creation 3

Data Visualization & GIS 3 Technology Enhanced Teaching & Learning 3

Preservation & Archival Services 4 Learning Spaces 3

Linked Open Data & Semantic Web 4 ePortfolio Support 4

Research Applications 3 Course & Program Evaluation 4

Museum, Archives, & Special Collections 2

Survey Research Support 3

Enabling Services

Collaboration & Communication 3 Portals, Dashboards & Aggregators 2

Video & Web Conferencing 3 Web Publishing 3

Google Apps for Education 4 Scholarly Networking 4

Software Licensing & Distribution 311

R-Service

FY 14 FY 15 FY 16 FY 17

BRC / HPC+(see details)

Design Rollout Rollout

Research Data Mang. Plan D/Rollout Rollout

Data Analysis Plan Design Rollout Rollout

Data Visualization Plan Plan Design Rollout

Preservation and Archival Plan D/Rollout Rollout Rollout

Linked Open Data Assess Assess ? ?

Research Applications Plan Design Rollout Rollout

Example: 3+ Year Roadmap for New Research Services

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Tools and Services - New

Respond to key new external and campus initiatives. Current examples:Science DMZ / Pacific Research Platform for networked data research applicationsChancellor’s Undergraduate Data Science Education Initiative: by 201X all Berkeley undergraduates will have access to new data science courses and labs

Future: Faculty Engagement

Faculty / Researcher Engagement and Consulting: Grow and refine researcher engagement model. This will include substantial investment in consulting staff who can wear two hats: research domain knowledge and IT knowledge. And staff who sit in two or more places: e.g., ORU and Research IT. Make sure that every ladder rank faculty member knows RIT and what we and the campus research IT community can provide. Build an integrated consulting model with multiple campus groups. Measure stakeholder perceptions and continuously improve.

Campus and Other Partnerships

Continue to grow strong partnerships with such campus units as Educational Technology Services (ETS), Library, central IT, Social Science D-Lab, Arts and Humanities, Computer Sciences, and others.

Leadership from Vice Chancellor for Research and VCRO. Bottom-up, faculty driven initiatives.

Take advantage and adapt campus infrastructure and collaborative services (e.g., Box).

Partner with other UCs national initiatives such as NERSC, ESnet, XSEDE, Internet2, Amazon, etc. that pay off.

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Staff Development Staff Development, Recruitment: Increase our investment

in professional development so that RIT and other IT staff have excellent collaborative and technical skills.

Learn and borrow from others, e.g., NSF ACI REF program.

Hire staff out of domains and train for tools (in some cases).

Alternative academic career paths

Take advantage many campus courses workshops and

Take this PD seriously!

Finances and Fund Raising

Thanks all.Thanks all.

For more information visit:For more information visit:

research-it.berkeley.edu/brcresearch-it.berkeley.edu/brcresearch-it.berkeley.edu/dhresearch-it.berkeley.edu/dhEmail: Email:

research-it@berkeley.eduresearch-it@berkeley.edu