Indiana University invites position papers for the NSF-sponsored workshop, Campus Bridging Technologies, to be held April 7-8, 2010 at University Place Conference Center on the campus of IUPUI in Indianapolis. The deadline to submit position papers is March 1, 2010. 

This workshop will explore networking and data centric issues that currently challenge U.S. researchers and generate a set of recommendations for the identification and implementation of processes, tools, and solicitations to achieve better coordination of cyberinfrastructure. Improved coordination of cyberinfrastructure will serve to optimize innovation and discovery by the U.S. science and engineering communities.

Workshop organizers aim to produce a document of best practices in areas including but not limited to:

·         General process of bridging to national infrastructure

·         Interoperable identification and authentication

·         Dissemination and use of shared data collections

·         Suggested policy documents for all research universities

·         Identification of solicitations to support this work

The workshop will also explore specific suggestions to implement the recommendation made in the EDUCAUSE CCI/CASC report regarding adoption of a uniform authentication scheme for U.S. research (or at least that which is conducted at NSF facilities).

Workshop topics and outcomes are expected to be interesting and useful to the networking, engineering and science communities, with the following observations to be used as starting points for the discussion:

·         The nation’s existing cyberinfrastructure – broadly considered – is not adequate to meet the needs of the current U.S. science and engineering community, nor adequate to foster the level and breadth of innovation that will be required to sustain U.S. competitiveness in the future.

·         The proliferation of distributed devices (such as high throughput sequencers, gene expression readers, and time-of-flight mass spectrometers) that produce relatively large streams of data exacerbates the cyberinfrastructure problem and increases the gap between existing cyberinfrastructure and the nation’s needs.

·         Simply stated, we are not using the existing cyberinfrastructure effectively or efficiently enough.

Workshop organizers seek position papers from the networking and scientific community.  This process is intended to serve two purposes: to collect input from the community at-large, and to serve as an opportunity for individuals to indicate a desire to attend and participate in the workshop. A number of expert leaders in appropriate areas of network architecture, engineering, research, identity management are participating by invitation. Between 10 and 20 additional attendees will be invited on the basis of position papers submitted. Individuals submitting papers by March 1 may indicate that they would like to be considered for inclusion in the workshop.

Submission of position papers is open to the general community.  Papers should be submitted via the workshop web page at  http://ndcampusbridging.iu-pti.org/. Position papers must be limited to three pages.