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What Can Campus Leaders Do About Cyberinfrastructure ?. Sally Jackson For the workshop on Campus Leadership Engagement in Building a Coherent Campus Cyberinfrastructure October 11, 2010. Researcher Practice. Agency Practice. Campus Cost Structure. PI. Agency. Campus.
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What Can Campus Leaders Do About Cyberinfrastructure? Sally Jackson For the workshop on Campus Leadership Engagement in Building a Coherent Campus Cyberinfrastructure October 11, 2010
Researcher Practice Agency Practice Campus Cost Structure PI Agency Campus F&A Rate Calculation ROI per $ Awarded Total Project Budgets
Researchers & research officers Funding agencies Campus planning & budgeting
advice to the CIC Provosts from their Chief Information Officers
Effective voluntary collaboration among research universities
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 clusters Influence attempts • On campus • Among research universities CIOs • Within our own reporting units