The E-Research Project
Needs assessment
The E-research project (a sub-committee project of the IT Review Project) will engage the University community in identifying the campus cyberinfrastructure needs. Cyberinfrastructure refers to the information technology infrastructure — hardware, software, staffing and facilities — required to support research, scholarship and creative activities on this campus. The development of these ideas is based on the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure program described in NSF’s blue ribbon panel report from February 2003.
The first phase of the project has the following purposes:
- Explore how faculty and staff use, or would like to use, information technology to support their research, scholarship, and creative activities.
- Investigate how the University’s information technology infrastructure could best enable research, scholarship, and creative activities.
- Seek to envision an IT infrastructure that anticipates the requirements of future research, scholarship, and creative activities of the University.
Report
The first version of the E-Research Report has been created. An appendix with notes from interviews and discussions is also available.
Project Teams
Core Group
A core group of faculty and staff will guide the project. The members of this group include:
- Boyd Knosp, ITS-Academic Technologies, Chair
- Les Finken, ITS-Academic Technologies
- Michael Mackey, Department of Biomedical Engineering
- Paul Soderdahl, Digital Initiatives Coordinator, UI Libraries
- Eric Dean, Chief Curator, School of Art & Art History
- Mark Wilson, Data Systems Coordinator, IIHR Hydroscience & of Engineering
Executive Sponsors
- Steve Fleage, CIO
- Molly Langstaff, Director, ITS Academic Technologies
Focus Groups
- Five focus groups made up of faculty and staff were held the Week of October 3. The report from these focus groups is available here.
