Data-Cyberinfrastructure Collaboration at the University of California, San Diego
Brian Schottlaender
University Librarian
University of California, San Diego
Robert H. McDonald
Director, Strategic Data Alliances
University of California, San Diego
In recent years both the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) have released reports on the coming need for appropriate cyberinfrastructure for engineering, sciences, social sciences and humanities disciplines. An important question for any research library is where and how they will fit into the cyberinfrastructure model that is native to their campus, their university system, and to their national and international partnerships.
At the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), the University Libraries are actively pursuing this agenda by working collaboratively with the San Diego Supercomputer Center to build an intersect of personnel, expertise, and services to provide long-term preservation of and access to research data that enables domain scientists and researchers to carry-out longitudinal complex data analysis to support interdisciplinary research. This critical partnership is providing new opportunities to the UCSD community and when linked with opportunities being developed for a University of California (UC) system-wide grid service platform, it will truly transform the way discovery and access intersect at UCSD and within the UC system. Presenters will describe the collaborative model, identify benefits and challenges, give a brief outline of the projects already underway, expose the key components of the technical architecture, and discuss future plans.
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