UC Berkeley Research IT
David Greenbaum, Director, Research IT (RIT), Office of the CIO
Five Questions for Today
1. What services do you provide now?
2. Future Vision: Where do you want your campus to be in 5
years?
3. What does your research community want you to do?
4. What is holding you back from reaching this vision?
5. What are the right kind of things to do collaboratively with
other campuses, regional/national service providers? And
what should be done locally?
I. Current Services
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.
RIT Services and Initiatives
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Berkeley Research Computing (BRC)
Digital Humanities
Research Data Management
Museum Informatics
Consulting Communities
Research IT Futures
Research and Academic
Engagment Benchmarking
Define
Identify Peer
Institutions
4
Research
Gather
Benchmarking Data
from University
Websites
Share
Narrative Summary
of Research Findings
Define Service Areas Record Data in
Worksheets
Group Presentation
& Discussion
Assign Researchers
One Page Executive
Summary
Follow-up
Phone/Email
Interviews
Berkeley Peer Institutions
6
Description
Criteria
Findings
Strategies for
Improvement
Research Services
Teaching & Learning Services
Berkeley Research Computing (BRC)
4
Online Courses
3
Research Data Management
4
Learning Management Systems & Support
3
Data Analysis: Quantitative & Qualitative
3
Instructional Content Creation
3
Data Visualization & GIS
3
Technology Enhanced Teaching & Learning
3
Preservation & Archival Services
4
Learning Spaces
3
Linked Open Data & Semantic Web
4
ePortfolio Support
4
Research Applications
3
Course & Program Evaluation
4
Museum, Archives, & Special Collections
2
Survey Research Support
3
Enabling Services
Collaboration & Communication
3
Portals, Dashboards & Aggregators
2
Video & Web Conferencing
3
Web Publishing
3
Google Apps for Education
4
Scholarly Networking
4
Software Licensing & Distribution
3
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RIT Services and Initiatives
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Berkeley Research Computing (BRC)
Digital Humanities
Research Data Management
Museum Informatics
Consulting Communities
Research IT Futures
Berkeley Research Computing
CLOUD
COMPUTING
CONSULTING
CONDO/
INSTITUTIONAL
CLUSTER
VIRTUAL
WORKSTATIONS
Condo/Institutional Cluster
CLOUD
COMPUTING
CONSULTING
CONDO/
INSTITUTIONAL
CLUSTER
VIRTUAL
WORKSTATIONS
Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud
CLOUD
COMPUTING
CONSULTING
CONDO/
INSTITUTIONAL
CLUSTER
VIRTUAL
WORKSTATIONS
Analytics Environments on
Demand
CLOUD
COMPUTING
CONSULTING
CONDO/
INSTITUTIONAL
CLUSTER
VIRTUAL
WORKSTATIONS
Consulting
CLOUD
COMPUTING
CONSULTING
CONDO/
INSTITUTIONAL
CLUSTER
VIRTUAL
WORKSTATIONS
… and Community
#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)
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
Research Data Management
(RDM)
Research Data Life Cycle
Research Project Life Cycle
Proposal
Post-Grant
Source: DataONE primer on data management
Project
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
Tier Research Data Management service area
Institutions
1
Robust RDM Program for the full research data lifecycle
Purdue, Stanford
2
Substantial portfolio of RDM Services that is clearly growing UC__, MIT, Harvard, Columbia, Virginia, NYU, UW
3
Documentation and links via Library RDM resource pages
UC__, Michigan
4
Few services with minimal coordination
Berkeley
CollectionSpace: A strategic platform
for museum collections management
Progress in CollectionSpace
Deployments
5 Deployments on Campus!
Objects
Images
Highlights
564,544
203,935
Public Portal
Launched!
706,946
230,211*
81,000 new images
added this year!
40,398
(None, yet!)
56,085
134,477
Launch enables
retirement of a costly
legacy system!
20,219
2,100**
Latest UCB
Deployment: 11/3/14!
NB: Counts as of 11/18/2014
* Not including catalog card images (200K+) and “not-for-public” images
** Approx. number in rapid flux
Partnerships:
Consulting
Researcher
Engagement
Center for New Music
and Audio Technologies
II. Future Vision (grass should be green)
II. Five Year Future - 5 Lenses
1. Tools and Services
2. Faculty Engagement / Consulting Model
3. Campus Partnerships
4. Staff Development
5. Finances and Fund Raising
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.
Research Services
Teaching & Learning Services
Berkeley Research Computing (BRC)
4
Online Courses
3
Research Data Management
4
Learning Management Systems & Support
3
Data Analysis: Quantitative & Qualitative
3
Instructional Content Creation
3
Data Visualization & GIS
3
Technology Enhanced Teaching & Learning
3
Preservation & Archival Services
4
Learning Spaces
3
Linked Open Data & Semantic Web
4
ePortfolio Support
4
Research Applications
3
Course & Program Evaluation
4
Museum, Archives, & Special Collections
2
Survey Research Support
3
Enabling Services
Collaboration & Communication
3
Portals, Dashboards & Aggregators
2
Video & Web Conferencing
3
Web Publishing
3
Google Apps for Education
4
Scholarly Networking
4
Software Licensing & Distribution
3
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Example: 3+ Year Roadmap for
New Research Services
R-Service
FY 14
FY 15
BRC / HPC+
Design
Rollout
Research
Data Mang.
Plan
D/Rollout
Rollout
Data Analysis
Plan
Design
Rollout
Rollout
Data
Visualization
Plan
Plan
Design
Rollout
Preservation
and Archival
Plan
D/Rollout
Rollout
Rollout
Linked Open
Data
Assess
Assess
?
?
Research
Applications
Plan
Design
Rollout
Rollout
(see details)
FY 16
FY 17
Rollout
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
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.
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.
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!
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!
Thanks all.
For more information visit:
research-it.berkeley.edu/brc
research-it.berkeley.edu/dh
Email:
research-it@berkeley.edu