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From: Clifford Lynch <cliff@cni.org>
Subject: NSF Cyberinfrastructure Task Force on Campus Bridging
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The draft report of the Task Force on Campus Bridging, established by 
the NSF's Advisory Committee on Cyberinfrastucture in early 2009,  is 
now available for review and comment. This is a substantial report 
that looks carefully at the interconnections between campus 
strategies and investments on one side, and national scale 
initiatives on the other. I've attached the announcement from the 
Task Force chair below, which provides more detail on the report and 
ways to submit comments.

Disclosure: I've been priviliged to be able to serve on this Task Force.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

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To members of the US science and engineering research community 
generally, and the cyberinfrastructure community in particular,

In early 2009 National Science Foundation's (NSF) Advisory Committee 
on Cyberinfrastructure (ACCI) charged six different task forces to 
make strategic recommendations to the NSF in strategic areas of 
cyberinfrastructure: Campus Bridging; Data; Grand Challenges and 
Virtual Organizations; High Performance Computing; Software and 
Tools; and Work Force Development.

A draft report of the Task Force on Campus Bridging is available for 
reading and for comment at http://pti.iu.edu/campusbridging/

You may comment on this document in one of three ways:
-Write a paper in response to this document that is posted pubicly on 
this web site
-Make a short comment that goes to the Task Force on Campus Bridging 
via surveymonkey either with attribution or anonymously.

We will finalize the document on 16 March, so please submit comments 
before then if you want them considered as the document is finalized. 
We will leave the opportunity to make comments open until the end of 
March. All comments sent via SurveyMonkey will be made available to 
the NSF.

A bit more about campus briding:

The creation of the NSF ACCI Task Force on Campus Bridging was a 
starting point led to a variety of efforts to collect community input 
on the topic of campus bridging. The web site 
http://pti.iu.edu/campusbridging/ brings together information 
gathered through several activities related to the general theme of 
Campus Bridging.

In order to define and specify its area of concern, we offer the 
following two definitions:

Cyberinfrastructure consists of computational systems, data and 
information management, advanced instruments, visualization 
environments, and people, all linked together by software and 
advanced networks to improve scholarly productivity and enable 
knowledge breakthroughs and discoveries not otherwise possible. 
[From the EDUCAUSE and CASC (Coalition for Academic Scientific 
Computing) joint report on campus cyberinfrastructure, "Developing a 
Coherent Cyberinfrastructure from Local Campus to National 
Facilities".]

And

Campus bridging is the seamlessly integrated use of 
cyberinfrastructure operated by a scientist or engineer with other 
cyberinfrastructure on the scientist's campus, at other campuses, and 
at the regional, national, and international levels as if they were 
proximate to the scientist, and when working within the context of a 
Virtual Organization (VO) make the 'virtual' aspect of the 
organization irrelevant (or helpful) to the work of the VO.

There have been significant opportunities for community input into 
the creation of this report over the last two years. This is the 
first opportunity to see a full draft of the overall task force 
report, and will be the last opportunity for the community to comment 
upon it and help the Task Force improve it before it is submitted for 
consideration to the NSF ACCI.

Sincerely,

Craig
-- 
Craig A. Stewart, Ph.D.
Chair, NSF ACCI Task Force on Campus Briding
Executive Director, Pervasive Technology Institute
Associate Dean, Research Technologies
Indiana University