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UC Berkeley Research IT

UC Berkeley Research IT. David Greenbaum, Director, Research IT (RIT), Office of the CIO. Five Questions for Today. What services do you provide now? Future Vision: Where do you want your campus to be in 5 years?   What does your research community want you to do?

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UC Berkeley Research IT

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  1. UC Berkeley Research IT David Greenbaum, Director, Research IT (RIT), Office of the CIO

  2. Five Questions for Today What services do you provide now? Future Vision: Where do you want your campus to be in 5 years?   What does your research community want you to do? What is holding you back from reaching this vision? What are the right kind of things to do collaboratively with other campuses, regional/national service providers?  And what should be done locally?

  3. I. Current Services

  4. 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.

  5. RIT Services and Initiatives Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) Digital Humanities Research Data Management Museum Informatics Consulting Communities Research IT Futures

  6. Research and Academic Engagment Benchmarking 4

  7. Berkeley Peer Institutions 6

  8. Description Criteria Findings Strategies for Improvement

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  11. RIT Services and Initiatives Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) Digital Humanities Research Data Management Museum Informatics Consulting Communities Research IT Futures

  12. Berkeley Research Computing CLOUD COMPUTING CONSULTING CONDO/ INSTITUTIONAL CLUSTER VIRTUAL WORKSTATIONS

  13. Condo/Institutional Cluster CLOUD COMPUTING CONSULTING CONDO/ INSTITUTIONAL CLUSTER VIRTUAL WORKSTATIONS

  14. Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud CLOUD COMPUTING CONSULTING CONDO/ INSTITUTIONAL CLUSTER VIRTUAL WORKSTATIONS

  15. Analytics Environments on Demand CLOUD COMPUTING CONSULTING CONDO/ INSTITUTIONAL CLUSTER VIRTUAL WORKSTATIONS

  16. Consulting CLOUD COMPUTING CONSULTING CONDO/ INSTITUTIONAL CLUSTER VIRTUAL WORKSTATIONS … and Community

  17. #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)

  18. 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

  19. Research Data Management (RDM) Research Data Life Cycle Source: DataONE primer on data management Proposal Post-Grant Project Research Project Life Cycle

  20. 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

  21. CollectionSpace: A strategic platform for museum collections management

  22. Progress in CollectionSpace Deployments 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

  23. Partnerships: Consulting Researcher Engagement Center for New Music and Audio Technologies

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

  25. II. Five Year Future - 5 Lenses Tools and Services Faculty Engagement / Consulting Model Campus Partnerships Staff Development Finances and Fund Raising

  26. 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.

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  28. Example: 3+ Year Roadmap for New Research Services 13

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

  30. 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.

  31. 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. …

  32. 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!

  33. Finances and Fund Raising We will do all we can to convince IT and campus leaders to strategically and wisely prioritize IT spend so that we move from perhaps 4% of central campus IT funds devoted to research support to at least 10% 15%. We will substantially increase the number of new grants we solicit and help others to submit, and grow the external grant revenues. Remember, these are often innovation funds not infrastructure funds. Matching partnerships with campus academic leadership … Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) is a great example, where the CIO’s $500K led to a 3 way match with VCR and Chancellor. But the metrics must be there!

  34. Thanks all. For more information visit: research-it.berkeley.edu/brcresearch-it.berkeley.edu/dh Email: research-it@berkeley.edu

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