What is cyberinfrastructure?
"...the opportunity is here to create cyberinfrastructure that enables more ubiquitous, comprehensive knowledge environments that become functionally complete for specific research communities in terms of people, data, information, tools, and instruments and that include unprecedented capacity for computational, storage, and communication. Such environments enable teams to share and collaborate over time and over geographic, organizational, and disciplinary distance. They enable individuals working alone to have access to more and better information and facilities for discovery and learning. They can serve individuals, teams and organizations in ways that revolutionize what they can do, how they do it, and who participates."
Revolutionizing Science and Engineering Through Cyberinfrastructure: Report of the National Science Foundation Blue-Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure, Jan. 2003. [pdf]
What is e-science?
"...e-science [is] a new research methodology, fueled by networked capabilities and vast amounts of data. E-science departs from well-established experimental and theoretical methodologies with its large-scale, data-driven, and computationally intense characteristics. E-science fundamentally alters the ways in which scientists carry out their work, the tools they use, the types of problems they address, and the nature of the documentation and publication that results from their research. E-science requires new strategies for research support and significant development of infrastructure."
Hey, Tony, Jessie Hey. 2006. E-science and Its Implications for the Library Community. Library Hi Tech, 24 (4), 515-528.
Charge to the UW Libraries cyberinfrastructure/e-science program:
- Lead and coordinate Libraries services and programs in support of UW sponsored research
- Serve as the Libraries contact and representative to the UW Office of Research
- Assess and understand the information needs of the UW sponsored research community
- Coordinate plans to ensure that Libraries resources, programs, and services are well aligned to meet the needs of the UW sponsored research community
- Lead and coordinate the Libraries role in cyberinfrastructure development and e-science programs and initiatives
- Serve as the Libraries contact for cyberinfrastructure and/or e-science issues and developments
- Lead and coordinate the implementation of the Libraries biosciences task force recommendations
Related reports:
- UW Libraries Biosciences Review Task Force Report
- Association of Research Libraries E-Science Task Force Report
Contact:
Neil Rambo
Director, Cyberinfrastructure Initiatives and
Special Assistant to the Dean, Biosciences and e-Science
University of Washington Libraries
Office of the Dean
482 Allen, Box 352900
Seattle WA 98195-2900
Phone: 206.685.8556
Email: nrambo@u.washington.edu