1. UC Berkeley Research IT David Greenbaum, Director, Research IT (RIT), Office of the CIO

2. 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?

3. I. Current Services

4. 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.

5. RIT Services and Initiatives 1.Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) 2.Digital Humanities 3.Research Data Management 4.Museum Informatics 5.Consulting Communities 6.Research IT Futures

6. Research and Academic Engagment Benchmarking DefineResearchShare Identify Peer Institutions Gather Benchmarking Data from University Websites Narrative Summary of Research Findings Define Service AreasRecord Data in Worksheets Group Presentation & Discussion Assign ResearchersFollow-up Phone/Email Interviews One Page Executive Summary 4

7. Berkeley Peer Institutions 6

8. Description Criteria Findings Strategies for Improvement

9. Research ServicesTeaching & Learning Services Berkeley Research Computing (BRC)4Online Courses3 Research Data Management4Learning Management Systems & Support3 Data Analysis: Quantitative & Qualitative3Instructional Content Creation3 Data Visualization & GIS3Technology Enhanced Teaching & Learning3 Preservation & Archival Services4Learning Spaces3 Linked Open Data & Semantic Web4ePortfolio Support4 Research Applications3Course & Program Evaluation4 Museum, Archives, & Special Collections2 Survey Research Support3 Enabling Services Collaboration & Communication3Portals, Dashboards & Aggregators2 Video & Web Conferencing3Web Publishing3 Google Apps for Education4Scholarly Networking4 Software Licensing & Distribution3 11

11. RIT Services and Initiatives 1.Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) 2.Digital Humanities 3.Research Data Management 4.Museum Informatics 5.Consulting Communities 6.Research IT Futures

12. Berkeley Research Computing CONSULTING CLOUD COMPUTING CONDO/ INSTITUTIONAL CLUSTER VIRTUAL WORKSTATIONS

13. Condo/Institutional Cluster CONSULTING CLOUD COMPUTING VIRTUAL WORKSTATIONS CONDO/ INSTITUTIONAL CLUSTER

14. Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud CONSULTING VIRTUAL WORKSTATIONS CONDO/ INSTITUTIONAL CLUSTER CLOUD COMPUTING

15. Analytics Environments on Demand CONSULTING CONDO/ INSTITUTIONAL CLUSTER CLOUD COMPUTING VIRTUAL WORKSTATIONS

16. … and Community CLOUD COMPUTING CONDO/ INSTITUTIONAL CLUSTER VIRTUAL WORKSTATIONS CONSULTING Consulting

17. #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)

18. 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

19. Research Data Management (RDM) Source: DataONE primer on data management Research Data Life Cycle Post-Grant Proposal Project Research Project Life Cycle

20. 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

21. CollectionSpace: A strategic platform for museum collections management

22. Progress in CollectionSpace Deployments ObjectsImagesHighlights 564,544203,935 Public Portal Launched! 706,946230,211* 81,000 new images added this year! 40,398 (None, yet!) 56,085134,477 Launch enables retirement of a costly legacy system! 20,2192,100** Latest UCB Deployment: 11/3/14! 5 Deployments on Campus! NB: Counts as of 11/18/2014 * Not including catalog card images (200K+) and “not-for-public” images ** Approx. number in rapid flux

23. Partnerships: Consulting ResearcherEngagementResearcherEngagement Center for New Music and Audio Technologies

24. II. Future Vision (grass should be green)

25. 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

26. 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.

27. Research ServicesTeaching & Learning Services Berkeley Research Computing (BRC)4Online Courses3 Research Data Management4Learning Management Systems & Support3 Data Analysis: Quantitative & Qualitative3Instructional Content Creation3 Data Visualization & GIS3Technology Enhanced Teaching & Learning3 Preservation & Archival Services4Learning Spaces3 Linked Open Data & Semantic Web4ePortfolio Support4 Research Applications3Course & Program Evaluation4 Museum, Archives, & Special Collections2 Survey Research Support3 Enabling Services Collaboration & Communication3Portals, Dashboards & Aggregators2 Video & Web Conferencing3Web Publishing3 Google Apps for Education4Scholarly Networking4 Software Licensing & Distribution3 11

28. R-Service FY 14FY 15FY 16FY 17 BRC / HPC+ (see details) DesignRollout Research Data Mang. PlanD/RolloutRollout Data Analysis PlanDesignRollout Data Visualization Plan DesignRollout Preservation and Archival PlanD/RolloutRollout Linked Open Data Assess ?? Research Applications PlanDesignRollout Example: 3+ Year Roadmap for New Research Services 13

29. 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

30. 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.

31. 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. …

32. 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!

33. 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!

34. Thanks all. For more information visit: research-it.berkeley.edu/brc research-it.berkeley.edu/dh Email: research-it@berkeley.edu