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?