1. Briefing to ARL Membership
The NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure Initiatives with Research Libraries
Briefing to ARL Membership
October 19, 2006

2. Context for E-Science Task Force
Computationally-intensive, data-rich environment
Evolving cyberinfrastructure for science (collaborative, computation-intensive, data-driven)
Growing imperative for models to support, manage and preserve data
Challenge of integrated knowledge environment

3. New paradigms for library engagement
Multi-institutional, international, collaborative context
Data roles: management, preservation, curation
Well-integrated, sustainable models of support for research process

4. ARL E-Science Task Force Charge
Informing, educating membership
Publications, highlighting models for positions/projects, policy landscape
Understanding needs, experiences of researchers
Explicating the research process, documenting desired relationships between components
Understanding disciplinary differences, cultures
Curation of long-lived digital data
Infrastructure, repository development, data models, metadata, tools

5. ARL E-Science Task Force Charge
Developing new roles for research libraries
Collaboration models, position models
Cooperation with “information” programs
Identify skills for information professionals
Workshops for science library leaders, library technologists
Also: Research agenda: behaviors, infrastructure, tool development

6. Data Workshop Goals sustainable economic models
structure of new partnerships
infrastructure requirements

7. Framing Questions
What are the most important challenges that must be met to create a reliable framework for preservation and access to digital data?
What are the critical steps necessary to meet those challenges?
What are the roles of each of the various sectors
What resources (funds, people, expertise, infrastructure, etc) are needed to take those steps?
What new technologies and new research are needed to take those steps?
What benefits would accrue from meeting the challenges and what are the costs of failure?