Dan Adkins, Director, Office of Cyberinfrastructure, NSF
Emerging Libraries in the Content of “x” in Transition
Libraries=institutions that will step up to provide services for participatory communities in the digital age
Institutional forms:
- libraries in transition
- universities in transition
- research/discovery in transition
- learning/education in transition
Context: openess, cultures of contrbution, open participatory infrastructure, CI-enabled knowledge communities
- Threads of opportunity (inflection point)
- International e-science movement
- Openness movement
- Concepts, visions of the future of learning and discovery (Vest, Metauniversity)
- Multiple stakeholders: governments, industry, academia, civil society, international versions; gaming, collaboration, virtual, immersive, and augmented reality communitities.
New leverage: The brewing perfect storm of opportunity
Hewlett: Open Participatory Learning Infrastucture (OPLI)
NSF CI Vision & Activities:
- Nomenclature: e-science, e-research, e-infrastructure
- Roadmap for the next 5-10 years available in coming weeks from OCI web site.
- science-driven, interdiscipleinary, multi-institution, international, data intensive, increased value of data and preservation/curation, sharing infrastructure, datamining, engage more students
3 interlocking activities:
- transformative application
- provisioning
- R&D
Key areas:
- high-performance computing: a component of broader CI efforts
- virtual organizations: bring scientists together with data, colleagues, models, computation, sensors, etc.
- learning and workforce development
- data, data analysis, and visualization: includes data, objects, and tools of all types, concern about curation and preservation (ARL report: To Stand the Test of Time.
S&E DATA Stewardship, Curation, Long-term Access
Need to develop a robust, sustainable infrastructure through a diverse federation of “emerging libraries” and other “agencies” and institutions.
At scale?!
Innovative organizations that can be catalyzed to bring this to be, in part through possible seed money from NSF, perhaps $0.5B.
