Campus Bridging Taskforce Meeting

国家科学基金会？美国的21世纪创新战略明确依赖于网络基础设施的创建和有效利用。美国国家科学基金会已经建立了一个校园桥梁工作组，以解决涉及改善校园与网络基础设施互动的广泛问题。这些问题包括确定最佳实践，在全国和世界范围内促进软件的互操作性，为研究型大学提出政策建议，以及确定支持这项工作的请求。网络基础设施必须在校园、地区和国家层面进行协调。研究人员、研究小组和校园必须通过虚拟组织和远程协作连接起来。校园桥接任务小组（Campus Bridging Task Force）负责调查由美国国家科学基金会（NSF）牵头的美国可以采取的实际步骤，以创建一个更有效、更互连的国家网络基础设施。这项提议为将召开的协调工作队的会议提供资金。这项活动的智力价值在于确定国家科学和工程研究界面临的重要挑战，并聚集一群信息技术领域的国家领导者，他们将有资格提供优秀的智力和实践见解，以确定从校园层面到国家合作的网络基础设施的最佳实践和战略。关于如何更好地将小型学校，特别是少数民族服务机构纳入国家网络基础设施的讨论和建议将产生这项活动的更广泛影响。

The National Science Foundation?s strategy for 21st century innovation depends explicitly on the creation and effective use of cyberinfrastructure. The National Science Foundation has established a Campus Bridging Task Force to address the broad issues involved in improving campus interactions with cyberinfrastructure. These issues include identifying best practices, promoting interoperability of software across the nation and around the world, suggesting policies for research universities, and identifying solicitations to support this work.Cyberinfrastructure must be coordinated on campus, regional, and national levels. Researchers, research groups, and campuses must be bridged through virtual organizations and telecollaborations. The Campus Bridging Task Force is charged with investigating practical steps that the US, led by the NSF, can take to create a more effective, better interconnected national cyberinfrastructure. This proposal funds a meeting to be held to coordinate the task force.The intellectual merit of this activity is in the identification of important challenges facing the nation's science and engineering research communities, and assembling a group of national leaders in information technology who will be qualified to offer excellent intellectual as well as practical insight on ways to identify best practices and strategies for bridging cyberinfrastructurefrom the campus level to national collaborations.The broader impact of this activity will result from discussion and suggestions about how to better integrate smaller schools, particularly Minority Serving Institutions, into the national cyberinfrastructure.