ACT 4: CENTER FOR INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE IN RESEARCH

该子项目是利用NIH/NCRR资助的中心赠款提供的资源的许多研究子项目之一。子项目和研究者（PI）可能从另一个NIH来源获得了主要资金，因此可以在其他CRISP条目中表示。所列机构为中心机构，不一定为研究者机构。研究信息架构中心的主要目标是通过应用计算和电信技术，加强波多黎各大学医学院的研究人员与波多黎各内外其他机构的研究人员之间的合作。这一举措利用了区域医学研究所研究信息股在1996-2001年供资周期内建立的资源，从而进一步发展了机构研究支助基础结构。根据过去四年取得的经验，确定了四个具体目标：1）促进通过互联网获取和鼓励使用高性能计算和生物技术研究资源; 2）创建或加强网站，新闻组或列表服务器的跨学科研究倡议在MSC积极合作，与研究人员在区域，国家或国际一级; 3）创建门户网站，以研究资源可在MSC或通过网络在线，和4）更新的电信基础设施，在某些领域的MSC。 这些目标的实现方式是：B）为一名将应用计算机技术解决具体生物医学研究问题的研究助理提供薪金，c）获得必要的软件，以开展合作活动，并利用互联网作为传播研究成果的媒介，（d）购置必要的电信/计算机硬件，以取代旧设备;（e）聘请有经验的顾问，协助开发当前和未来的网络资源。 为了最大限度地发挥这一活动的影响，该项目最初主要集中在MSC的研究举措，计划，项目或团队与波多黎各以外的积极合作。我们确定了以下内容：RCMI计划，RCMI临床研究基础设施倡议，拉丁裔研究计划项目，少数民族生物医学研究计划和行为科学研究所。我们希望通过这项活动促进合作将加强为减少全国健康差距而制定的研究计划。

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. The main goal of the Center for Information Architecture in Research (CIAR) was to enhance collaboration between researchers at the University of Puerto Rico-Medical Sciences Campus and researchers in other institutions within and outide Puerto Rico through the application of computing and telecommunications technologies. This initiative built on resources established by the RCMI Research Informatics Unit during the 1996-2001 funding cycle, thus providing further development of institutional research support infrasctructure. Based on the experience gained during the previous four years, four specific aims were identified: 1) To facilitate access and stimulate the use of high performance computing and biotechnology research resources available through the Internet; 2) To create or enhance web sites, news groups or list servers for interdisciplinary research initiatives at the MSC that collaborate actively with investigators at te regional, national or international level; 3) to create portals to research resources available at the MSC or online through the Web, and 4) To update the telecommunications infrastructure in some areas of the MSC. These aims were meant to be accomplished by: a) Providing salary for 2.0 full-time equivalent technical support personnel, b) Providing salary for one Research Associate that would apply computer technologies to address specific biomedical research problems, c) Acquiring the software necessary to enable collaborative activities and to exploit the Internet as a medium for disseminating research findings, d) Acquiring telecommunications/computer hardware necessary to substitute older equipment, and e) Hiring experienced consultants that would assist in the development of current and future web resources. In order to maximize the impact of this activity, this project initially focused mainly on research initiatives, programs, projects or teams at the MSC with active collaborations outside of Puerto Rico. We identified the following: the RCMI Program, the RCMI Clinical Research Infrastructure Initiative, the Latino Research Program Project, the Minority Biomedical Research Program, and the Behavioral Sciences Research Institute. We hoped that facilitating collaborations through this activity would strengthen research initiatives developed to reduce health disparities in the nation.