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Call for Papers for Campus Bridging Workshop, April
7-8, 2
I wanted to share the call for papers for a workshop being held
at IUPUI on April 7-8, 2010 under the auspices of the NSF Campus
Bridging Technologies Task Force (of which I am a member). Note the
focus on data related topics as a major theme of the workshop (see the
workshop web site at http://ndcampusbridging.iu-pti.org/ for more
details). Paper submissions will be accepted till March 31, though if
you are submitting a paper and are interested in participating in the
workshop on the basis of that submission, there is an earlier
deadline, as noted in the call.
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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Call for Participation: NSF
Campus Bridging Technologies Workshop Indiana University - IUPUI
Campus, Indianapolis, IN, April 7-8, 2010
Indiana University invites
position papers for the National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored
workshop, Campus Bridging Technologies, to be held April 7-8, 2010 at
University Place Conference Center on the campus of IUPUI in
Indianapolis. The deadline to submit position papers is March8,
2010.
This workshop will explore networking and data centric issues that
currently challenge U.S. researchers and generate a set of
recommendations for the identification and implementation of
processes, tools, and solicitations to achieve better coordination of
cyberinfrastructure. Improved coordination of cyberinfrastructure will
serve to optimize innovation and discovery by the U.S. science and
engineering communities.
Workshop organizers aim to produce a document of best practices in
areas including but not limited to:
- General process of bridging to
national infrastructure
- Interoperable identification and
authentication
- Dissemination and use of shared data
collections
- Suggested policy documents for all
research universities
- Identification of solicitations to
support this work
The workshop will also explore
specific suggestions to implement the recommendation made in the
EDUCAUSE CCI/CASC report regarding adoption of a uniform
authentication scheme for U.S. research (or at least that which is
conducted at NSF facilities).
Workshop topics and outcomes are expected to be interesting and useful
to the networking, engineering and science communities, with the
following observations to be used as starting points for the
discussion:
- The nation's existing
cyberinfrastructure - broadly considered - is not adequate to meet
the needs of the current U.S. science and engineering community, nor
adequate to foster the level and breadth of innovation that will be
required to sustain U.S. competitiveness in the future.
- The proliferation of distributed
devices (such as high throughput sequencers, gene expression readers,
and time-of-flight mass spectrometers) that produce relatively large
streams of data exacerbates the cyberinfrastructure problem and
increases the gap between existing cyberinfrastructure and the
nation's needs.
- Simply stated, we are not using the
existing cyberinfrastructure effectively or efficiently
enough.
Workshop organizers seek position
papers from the networking and scientific community. This
process is intended to serve two purposes: to collect input from the
community at-large, and to serve as an opportunity for individuals to
indicate a desire to attend and participate in the workshop. A number
of expert leaders in appropriate areas of network architecture,
engineering, research, identity management are participating by
invitation. Between 10 and 20 additional attendees will be invited on
the basis of position papers submitted. Individuals submitting papers
by March 1 may indicate that they would like to be considered for
inclusion in the workshop.
Submission of position papers is
open to the general community. Papers should be submitted via
the workshop web page at http://ndcampusbridging.iu-pti.org/. Position papers must be limited to three
pages.
Daphne Siefert-Herron
Manager of Strategic Initiatives
Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University
2719 E. 10th Street
Bloomington IN 47408
(812)856-1242 FAX (812)856-1537
dsiefert@indiana.edu
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