it/library partnerships at iu: almost two decades (and counting) craig a. stewart associate dean,...
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IT/Library Partnerships at IU:almost two decades (and
counting)Craig A. Stewart
Associate Dean, Research TechnologiesChief Operating Officer, Pervasive Technologies Labs
http://rtinfo.indiana.edu/
April 2008
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Outline
• 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
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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?
• 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
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Accomplishments 1956 – 1995Notable events (RT unless noted) Grants and awards Year
Marshall Wrubel named first Director of Research Computing Center
1955
Stanley Hagstrom, Franklin Prosser, Stephen Young FASTRAN (FAST FORTRAN II) for IBM 709
1963
CDC key research resource at IUB; IBM key research resource at IUPUI
1970s-mid 1980s
IU key site for porting BMDP to CDC NOS 1970sDEC grant for equipment purchase ($10M) 1980s
Hondo Late 1980s-mid 1990s
Unix Workstation Support Group created 1988Center for Innovative Computer Applications established**
1989
Stat/Math established 1991Scalar Technology Array of Risc Research Systems 1991LETRS service established (DLP&UITS) 1992
SoM Library Variations Project 1993
LETRS facility established (DLP&UITS) 1994
DIDO Image Bank goes online (DLP) 1994
Victorian Women Writers Project begins (DLP) I-Way - HPC Challenge award (Gannon) 1995
4/8/2008Accomplishments 1996 – 2001
Notable events (RT unless noted) Grants and awards Year
IBM SUR - SP2 (RT), Variations SUR grant (DLP)
1996
Variations first goes online (DLP) SCAAMP 1996IUB CAVE (RT), IUPUI Immersadesk.First RAC staff @ IUPUIDigital Library Program launched in its current form (IU Libraries, UITS, OVPIT, SoI)
vBNS ($394K) 1997
First SC display 1997IU Information Technology Strategic Plan Industrial Mold filling HPC Challenge award
(Bramley et al), Digital Library IBM SUR grant (DLP)
1998
Hoagy Carmichael Collection (IMLS) (DLP) 1998Pervasive Technology Labs ($30M), Letopis' Zhurnal' nykh Statei - Russian Periodical index (Dept. of Ed.) (DLP)
1999
SPSS ELA Variations2 ($3,132,596) (DLP) 2000Research Indiana Display at SC2000 (RT), Wright American Fiction joint CIC project begins (DLP)
INGEN ($105M; $6.7 to IT), US Steel Gary Works Photo Collection (LSTA) (DLP)
2000
John-E-Box invented (Huffman^2, Wernert) Charles Cushman Photo Collection (IMLS) (DLP)
2001
HPSS Distributed movers developed and implemented
2001
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Accomplishments 2001 – 2005Notable events (RT unless noted) Grants and awards Year
First university-owned 1 TFLOPS supercomputer AVIDD ($1.8M) 2001SAS Site License 2001
Film Literature Index Online (NEH) (DLP) 2002Ist distributed cluster > 1 TFLOPS Linpack TeraGrid ETF ($1,517,430) (RT), Stone,
EVIA Digital Archive Development Phase (Mellon) (DLP)
2003
Global Arthropod Evolution - HPC Challenge Award (Stewart et al)
2003
Hess, Digital Library of the Commons (Mellon) (DLP)
2003
Newman, The "Chymistry" of Isaac Newton (NSF) (DLP)
2003
IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana (IMLS) (DLP), Digital Libraries Education Program (IMLS) (DLP)
2004
ICTC!!!!! Digital Audio Archives Project (IMLS, JHU subcontract) (DLP)
2004
Variations2 goes online for IU students and faculty (DLP)
TeraGrid RP ($3,416,693) (RT), IN Harmony (DLP), Variations3 (IMLS) (DLP)
2005
IUScholarWorks institutional repository goes online (DLP)
Gould, CAMVA (Dept. of Ed.) (DLP) 2005
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Accomplishments 2005 – present
Notable events (RT unless noted) Grants and awards YearMETACyt ($53M; 6.25 to IT), Stone, EVIA Digital Archive (Mellon) (DLP)
2005
Data Capacitor ($1,720,000) (RT), Indiana Authors and their Books (LSTA) (DLP)
2005
Reed, Sound Directions R&D Phase (NEH) (DLP)
2005
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)
All in a day’s work Bandwidth Challenge Honorable Mention (Simms et al.), Sakaibrary (Mellon) (DLP)
2006
BARCO VR Theatre Stone, EVIA Digital Archive Implementation Phase (Mellon) (DLP)
2006
Life Sciences Strat Plan 2006PolarGrid ($1,964,049), DLF Aquifer American Social History Online (IMLS, DLF subcontract) (DLP)
2007
Building a Bridge Bandwidth Challenge award (Simms et al), Reed, Sound Directions Preservation Phase (NEH) (DLP)
2007
IUScholarWorks e-journal hosting pilot (DLP) 2008
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Growth of Storage
Growth in archival tape storage capacity of IU’s HPSS archival research storage system
Growth in spinning disk storage of centralized (UITS) cyberinfrastructure
From the past to the future present
Nuclear pasta
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Open Science Grid4/8/2008
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TeraGrid: 11 Resource Partners, 1 Instrument
Collaborative Initiative on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
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• Early diagnosis is important, difficult
• Collaborations between IUSM, UITS, and Purdue School of Science developing new diagnostic tools leading to earlier diagnosis and better interventions – improving quality of life
• International research consortium storing data at Indiana University
• 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
• 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 partners2. To digitize 10,000 pieces of the sheet music3. To develop an open source cataloging tool, a quality control process and
an online searchable database of sheet music4. 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• 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
• “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• 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
Improving quality of life 4/8/2008
Can you really measure quality of life?
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Focusing attention on Indiana4/8/2008
Grant success (economic development disguised as capability enhancement)
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The First Law of Money
First Law
• Do it! Money will come when you are doing the right thing
Staff over time
April 19, 2023
The Seven Laws of Money. Michael Phillips. (c) 1996 Shambala Publications, Inc.
Do it (where it = grants)• 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
April 19, 2023
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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.
Acknowledgements• 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.
• The IU Data Capacitor is supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. CNS-0521433.
• 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.
• This work was supported in part by Shared University Research grants from IBM, Inc. to Indiana University.
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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)
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