Position Statement Guidelines

NSF Cyberinfrastructure Workshop Position Statement –  Guidelines

FORMAT

Papers should be 1 –  1 ½  pages in length.  Please submit papers as word documents or in PDF format by Sept. 11, 2006.  Papers should be submitted to:  Jim Davis (jdavis@conet.ucla.edu) and copied to Carmela Cunningham (carmela@ucla.edu).

Papers will be posted no later than Sept. 18 for advance reading by the workshop participants.  At present the website is an open site but it has not been marketed.

We do expect to include the position statements as an appendix in the workshop report which will become a public report after participant review.  The report will be made available on the website, and the website will be marketed at the conclusion of the workshop.

Workshop objectives and the working definition of “cyberinfrastructure” are listed below.  There is additional helpful material on the Content and Focus page.

Please include the following information on page 1 of your paper.

Name, Title, Contact information

FOCUS

Papers should look at the impact of Cyberinfrastruce on Biological and/or Chemical process systems from your point of view as a representative of your field. Consider the following questions as they relate to your discipline or industry.

What are the cyberinfrastructure opportunities within your discipline or industry?

What are the knowledge gaps and/or barriers with cyberinfrastructure solutions within your discipline or industry?

What are the challenging problems your discipline or industry faces that cyberinfrastructure helps to address?

DEFINITIONS AND OBJECTIVES

Cyberinfrastructure Defined

For the purposes of this workshop, “cyberinfrastructure” will be defined as “the coordinated aggregation of software, hardware and other technologies as well as human expertise to support current and future discoveries in science and engineering and to integrate relevant and often disparate resources to provide a useful, usable and enabling computational and data framework characterized by broad access.”

Workshop Objectives are to:

• identify and exemplify major application impacts, directions and the potential for cyberinfrastructure as it pertains to chemical and biological systems
• identify and recommend research areas that aim toward the fulfillment of this potential
• identify associated areas of required emphasis with cyberinfrastructure, education and training, interdisciplinary development, and support and approaches to collaboration.