Transcript IT/Library Partnerships at IU: almost two decades (and counting) Craig A. Stewart Associate Dean, Research Technologies Chief Operating Officer, Pervasive Technologies Labs [email protected] http://rtinfo.indiana.edu/ April 2008

IT/Library Partnerships at IU:
almost two decades (and
counting)
Craig A. Stewart
Associate Dean, Research Technologies
Chief Operating Officer, Pervasive Technologies Labs
[email protected]
http://rtinfo.indiana.edu/
April 2008
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4/8/2008
Outline
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What we do
Some history
Collaborative projects between Libraries and IT
Improving quality of life in Indiana, the US, and
beyond
• Some thoughts about the future
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Office of the VP for Information
Technology & CIO
VP IT & CIO
Learning
Technologies
Research
Technologies
Support
Infrastructure
Enterprise
Software
Networks
Information
Assurance
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Partners in the Digital Library Program
• IU Bloomington Libraries
• OVPIT/University Information Technology
Services
• School of Library and Information Sciences
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Information Commons
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What does the Research Technologies
Division do and whom do we serve?
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What do we do
– Things that are unique to research, scholarship, and artistic production
(sometimes)
– Engage in research, development, and deployment
– Enhance IU research – new capabilities, increased importance, productivity, 2nd
order benefits (staff critical mass, grant competiveness)
– Create and deploy Cyberinfrastructure (computing systems, data storage
systems, advanced instruments and data repositories, visualization
environments, and people, all linked together by software and high performance
networks to improve research productivity and enable breakthroughs not
otherwise possible)
Whom do we serve
– Everyone engaged in research, scholarly discovery, and artistic creation at IU
(Clients & Collaborators), including students learning research techniques or
doing research
– Researchers and residents of Indiana, the US
– People everywhere
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Research Technologies mission
• The mission of the Research Technologies Division of UITS is to
develop, deliver, and support advanced technology solutions that
improve productivity of and enable new possibilities in scholarly and
creative activity at Indiana University and beyond; and to
complement this with education and technology translation activities
to improve the quality of life of people in Indiana, the nation, and the
world.
• “The future is unevenly distributed” – Larry Smarr
• We want to have the future concentrated at IU!
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In practical terms
• Develop, deploy, and operate supercomputers, massive
data storage systems, advanced visualization systems
(advanced cyberinfrastructure deployment)
• Manage site licenses for software, create software, tune
software
• Make data sources available – scientific, humanities, arts
• Consulting and training
• Pursue grants, execute grant funded activities
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Research Technologies organization
Applications
HPA
Scientific
Programming
Stat/Math
Systems
Online
Support
Open Science
Grid
HPS
Visualization
AVL
TeraGrid Viz
Data
Capacitor
MWT2
Research
Storage
Life Sci
IDAH
CCC
Biomedical
Apps
Advanced IT
Core
Core Services
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Accomplishments 1956 – 1995
Notable events (RT unless noted)
Grants and awards
Marshall Wrubel named first Director of Research
Computing Center
Stanley Hagstrom, Franklin Prosser, Stephen Young
FASTRAN (FAST FORTRAN II) for IBM 709
1955
1963
CDC key research resource at IUB; IBM key
research resource at IUPUI
IU key site for porting BMDP to CDC NOS
DEC grant for equipment purchase
($10M)
Hondo
1970s-mid
1980s
1970s
1980s
Late 1980smid 1990s
1988
1989
Unix Workstation Support Group created
Center for Innovative Computer Applications
established**
Stat/Math established
Scalar Technology Array of Risc Research Systems
LETRS service established (DLP&UITS)
SoM Library Variations Project
LETRS facility established (DLP&UITS)
DIDO Image Bank goes online (DLP)
Victorian Women Writers Project begins (DLP)
Year
1991
1991
1992
1993
I-Way - HPC Challenge award (Gannon)
1994
1994
1995
Accomplishments 1996 – 2001
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Notable events (RT unless noted)
Variations first goes online (DLP)
IUB CAVE (RT), IUPUI Immersadesk.
First RAC staff @ IUPUI
Digital Library Program launched in its current
form (IU Libraries, UITS, OVPIT, SoI)
First SC display
IU Information Technology Strategic Plan
SPSS ELA
Research Indiana Display at SC2000 (RT), Wright
American Fiction joint CIC project begins (DLP)
John-E-Box invented (Huffman^2, Wernert)
HPSS Distributed movers developed and
implemented
Grants and awards
IBM SUR - SP2 (RT), Variations SUR grant
(DLP)
SCAAMP
vBNS ($394K)
Industrial Mold filling HPC Challenge award
(Bramley et al), Digital Library IBM SUR
grant (DLP)
Hoagy Carmichael Collection (IMLS) (DLP)
Pervasive Technology Labs ($30M), Letopis'
Zhurnal' nykh Statei - Russian Periodical
index (Dept. of Ed.) (DLP)
Variations2 ($3,132,596) (DLP)
INGEN ($105M; $6.7 to IT), US Steel Gary
Works Photo Collection (LSTA) (DLP)
Charles Cushman Photo Collection (IMLS)
(DLP)
Year
1996
1996
1997
1997
1998
1998
1999
2000
2000
2001
2001
Accomplishments 2001 – 2005
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Notable events (RT unless noted)
Grants and awards
First university-owned 1 TFLOPS supercomputer
SAS Site License
AVIDD ($1.8M)
Film Literature Index Online (NEH) (DLP)
Ist distributed cluster > 1 TFLOPS Linpack
TeraGrid ETF ($1,517,430) (RT), Stone,
EVIA Digital Archive Development
Phase (Mellon) (DLP)
Global Arthropod Evolution - HPC
Challenge Award (Stewart et al)
Hess, Digital Library of the Commons
(Mellon) (DLP)
Newman, The "Chymistry" of Isaac
Newton (NSF) (DLP)
IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana
(IMLS) (DLP), Digital Libraries Education
Program (IMLS) (DLP)
Digital Audio Archives Project (IMLS, JHU
ICTC!!!!!
subcontract) (DLP)
Variations2 goes online for IU students and TeraGrid RP ($3,416,693) (RT), IN
faculty (DLP)
Harmony (DLP), Variations3 (IMLS) (DLP)
IUScholarWorks institutional repository goes Gould, CAMVA (Dept. of Ed.) (DLP)
online (DLP)
Year
2001
2001
2002
2003
2003
2003
2003
2004
2004
2005
2005
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Accomplishments 2005 – present
Notable events (RT unless noted)
Big Red - 20 TFLOPS, 23rd on Top500, fastest
academic supercomputer in western hemisphere
(RT), Fedora-based IU digital library object
repository goes into production (DLP)
BARCO VR Theatre
Grants and awards
METACyt ($53M; 6.25 to IT), Stone, EVIA
Digital Archive (Mellon) (DLP)
Data Capacitor ($1,720,000) (RT), Indiana
Authors and their Books (LSTA) (DLP)
Reed, Sound Directions R&D Phase (NEH)
(DLP)
All in a day’s work Bandwidth Challenge
Honorable Mention (Simms et al.),
Sakaibrary (Mellon) (DLP)
2005
Stone, EVIA Digital Archive
Implementation Phase (Mellon) (DLP)
2006
Life Sciences Strat Plan
PolarGrid ($1,964,049), DLF Aquifer
American Social History Online (IMLS, DLF
subcontract) (DLP)
Building a Bridge Bandwidth Challenge
award (Simms et al), Reed, Sound
Directions Preservation Phase (NEH) (DLP)
IUScholarWorks e-journal hosting pilot (DLP)
Year
2005
2005
2006
2006
2007
2007
2008
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Growth of Storage
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Year
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Growth in spinning disk storage of centralized (UITS)
cyberinfrastructure
2500
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2000
TB
TB
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Year
Growth in archival tape storage capacity of IU’s HPSS archival
research storage system
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From the past to the future present
Nuclear pasta
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Open Science Grid
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TeraGrid: 11 Resource Partners, 1 Instrument
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Collaborative Initiative on Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
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Early diagnosis is important, difficult
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Collaborations between IUSM, UITS,
and Purdue School of Science
developing new diagnostic tools
leading to earlier diagnosis and better
interventions – improving quality of life
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International research consortium
storing data at Indiana University
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Largest study ever published about
CIFASD (in terms of sample size)
made possible by this consortium and
IU data repository
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• The overall goal of the project is to create an electronic
scholarly version of the chymical papers of Isaac
Newton
• Current NSF grant runs from 8/2006 – 7/2009
• Grant PI is William R. Newman, HPS at UIB
• 12 month goals
– Development
• Sustainability – move the standalone application into Fedora
infrastructure
• Generalize a number of the Newton specific tools that could be
more widely used
– Content
• Publish 50 encoded documents
• Encode additional 200 documents
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An IMLS funded grant awarded in Fall 2004 to be competed in Fall 2008
A partnership of the IU DLP, the Lilly Library, the State Library, the State
Museum, and the Historical Society
Goals of the project
1. To foster a collaborative relationship between the partners
2. To digitize 10,000 pieces of the sheet music
3. To develop an open source cataloging tool, a quality control process
and an online searchable database of sheet music
4. To explore copyright questions
Current Status
– All 10,000 pieces of sheet music digitized. Cataloging is ongoing.
– The cataloging tool will be released as OS in July 2008
– The online searchable sheet music database will be released to
production May 2008
– Collaborative relationships are strong. We are working on a new grant
to digitize Indiana’s historic newspapers
EVIA Digital Archive
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Ethnomusicological Video for Instruction and Analysis
Goal: Create a sustainable infrastructure for collecting, annotating,
preserving, and delivering digital video field materials
PI: Ruth Stone, Folklore and Ethnomusicology
$903,254 in funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation since 2001
Variations3
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“Digital music library in a box.”
Focus on tools for pedagogical use of
digital music collections: scores and
audio
Current status: Evaluation of system
at four test sites outside IU
PI: Jon Dunn, Digital Library Program
$768,747 grant from IMLS, 2005-2008
Sakaibrary
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Goal: Provide improved
access to library resources
and services within the
Sakai collaboration and
learning environment
Developing tools to support
creation of citation lists,
search of library full text
resources, and library and
faculty creation of subject
research guides
Initial tools available as part
of the Sakai 2.4 distribution
Co-PIs: Jon Dunn, Digital
Library Program, IU; Susan
Hollar, University of
Michigan
$438,267 grant from Mellon
Foundation, 2006-2008
IU Digital Library Repository
• Goal: Provide central management for digital collections from
IU’s libraries, archives, museums, and other departments
• Based on Fedora
– Open source digital repository system developed by
Cornell and University of Virginia
• Development standard content models for various content
types (image, text, audio)
• Supports both preservation and access
• Beginning to experiment with scientific data (LEAD)
• Plan to build interface to HPSS, to allow Fedora to serve as
“repository layer” managing metadata and access control for
content in HPSS
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Improving quality of life
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Can you really measure quality of life?
Cyberstates Ranking
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10
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Employment
25
Payroll in Billions, current
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R&D Expenditures
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2001
2002
2003
2004
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2006
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Focusing attention on Indiana
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Grant success (economic development
disguised as capability enhancement)
Grants for RT, DLP, Hardware and Software
$9,000,000
$8,000,000
$7,000,000
$6,000,000
Software
$5,000,000
Hardware
DLP
$4,000,000
RT
$3,000,000
$2,000,000
$1,000,000
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November 7, 2015
The First Law of Money
First Law
• Do it! Money will
come when you are
doing the right thing
Staff over time
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The Seven Laws of Money. Michael Phillips. (c) 1996 Shambala Publications, Inc.
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November 7, 2015
Do it (where it = grants)
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A key reason to pursue
particular grant opportunities,
and not others, is the belief
that in certain areas IU is
better positioned to achieve
an important task than any
other university in the US
We do make value
judgments, based on IU
priorities
There is a competitive
element to pursuit of grants
How do you dismount a tiger
gracefully?
The combination of a
commitment to local service
and national prominence
creates real but hopefully
productive tension
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New new things
• Data-centric computing & Datanet
• Data librarians
• Self-serve scholarly archiving managed by IU workflow
engines
• Semantic web
• Research Commons
– Large scale viz
– Point of presence for multiple service providers
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A few closing thoughts
• Molecular biology as a model for the future of digital
libraries
• The thing about change is, things are different after.
• I’d rather be right than consistent. (Winston Churchill)
• We must know. We will know. (David Hilbert)
• Working with UITS staff and IU librarians, researchers,
scholars and artists, we are deciding what is the right
course for the future in support of Indiana University’s
missions in research, scholarship, artistic creation,
education, and engagement. We will know, and we will
put our knowledge to the use of the betterment of the
human condition.
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Acknowledgements
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IU’s involvement as a TeraGrid Resource Partner is supported in part by the National Science
Foundation under Grants No. ACI-0338618l, OCI-0451237, OCI-0535258, and OCI-0504075.
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The IU Data Capacitor is supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. CNS0521433.
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This research was supported in part by the Pervasive Technology Labs and the Indiana METACyt
Initiative. Both Indiana University initiatives are supported by the Lilly Endowment, Inc.
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This work was supported in part by Shared University Research grants from IBM, Inc. to Indiana
University.
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The LEAD portal is developed under the leadership of IU Professors Dr. Dennis Gannon and Dr. Beth
Plale, and supported by NSF grant 331480. Marcus Christie and Surresh Marru of the Extreme!
Computing Lab contributed the LEAD graphics
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Many of the ideas presented in this talk were developed under a Fulbright Senior Scholar’s award to
Stewart, funded by the US Department of State and the Technische Universitaet Dresden.
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Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the
author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF), National
Institutes of Health (NIH), Lilly Endowment, Inc., or any other funding agency.
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This work is made possible by the dedicated efforts of the expert staff of the Research Technologies
Division of University Information Technology Services, the faculty and staff of the Pervasive Technology
Labs, and the staff of UITS generally.
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Thanks to the faculty and staff with whom we collaborate locally at IU and globally (within the US via the
TeraGrid, and internationally via collaboration with Technische Universitaet Dresden)