NSF Information and Data Management'2000 Workshop
Grant Reports
and
Discussion/Breakout Group Statements
This
year, we request that you submit
·
Grant
Report, and
·
Position
Statements (two or more, please)
Grant
Reports will be compiled into hardcopy (and web-based) workshop proceedings.
Position statements will be used
* Before
the workshop by breakout group chairs, in order to set the agenda of the
breakout group meeting,
* During
breakout group meeting on March 7th, Tuesday,
10:30am-12:00noon, and
* After the
workshop, for breakout group chairs to report their findings to the NSF
IDM program director, as well as to post them on the web.
Our hope is that the NSF IDM program director will be able to translate
these recommendations into actions.
Instructions for
Grant Reports
Please submit one report per project. If your report has multiple PIs working on it, you need to submit only one report. This report should not take a long time to compose, and for newly funded projects might actually be an edited version of the executive summary. For longer running projects, you will probably be able to update your last project report, adding any new information. Further, NSF needs you to provide the following information to show that NSF is fulfilling its goals under the GPRA Performance Plan Outcome goals. These goals are:
1. Discoveries at and across the frontier of science and engineering.
2. Connections between discoveries and their use in service to society.
3. A diverse, globally oriented workforce of scientists and engineers.
4. Improved achievement in mathematics and science skills needed by all
Americans.
5. Timely and relevant information on the national and international
science and engineering enterprise.
It is not expected that all projects contribute to all these goals; goal 5, for
example, reflects the efforts of the Division of Science Resources Studies, and
goal 4 is largely the function of the Education and Human Resources
Directorate.
Further information on GPRA can be found at the web site http://www.nsf.gov/od/gpra/start.htm
Please note that your report should be three (3) pages maximum, single-sided in a 10-point, "Times Roman" font when printed out. A sample template with further formatting instructions is available in HTML format and in MSWord 97 format.
One of the reasons we need to restrict the size, despite the heavy GRPA requirements, is that we will be printing and collecting all of the reports. At an estimated 100 reports, 3 pages each, meaning at least 300 pages, perhaps more.
For your reference, you may wish to examine the reports from the last year's IDM99 workshop at http://www.cs.ucla.edu/csd/IDM99/report_template.htm, or from the IDM98 workshop at http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~klavans/Activities/98-IDM-Workshop/Proceedings.html
The reports provide a very rich useful source of information on the projects funded by the IDM program, and are accessed by other researchers, NSF and other agencies for planning and reporting purposes, as well as by students, industry, and the international community.
For any questions regarding these reports, please contact the IDM’2000 Proceedings Co-Editors Prasad Sistla, UIC (mailto:sistla@eecs.uic.edu) or Ouri Wolfson, UIC (mailto:wolfson@eecs.uic.edu).
Deadline for grant report submission is
February 21, 2000.
Printed and
Electronic Grant Report Submission Form
Grant report URL’s should be
submitted electronically (PLEASE CLICK
HERE for electronic submission) and in printed form,
postmarked by February 21, to either Prasad Sistla or Ouri Wolfson at:
The University of Illinois at Chicago
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Science and Engineering Offices
851 South Morgan Street (M/C 154)
Chicago, Illinois 60607-7053
Instructions for Discussion/Breakout Group Position Statements
Please submit your position statements to at least two of the following
questions (in the form of a URL of a text or MS word document—see the
submission below).
Please be brief in your answers to the questions below.
(1)
Briefly state, in your view, the achievements of the recent
(5-10 years) (a) IDM Projects, and (b)
Data Management and/or Information Retrieval fields. Justify your responses.
(Your answers here are needed for discussion group #3).
(2)
List, briefly, your recommendations for NSF IDM research initiatives.
Which topics/areas can benefit from NSF IDM research initiatives, and why?
(Your answers here are needed for the breakout group #1).
(3)
In your views, what are the summary of the state-of-the art in
IDM research/practice/industry products, and needed advances? What is the
motivation for needed advances (e.g., overcoming shortcomings, serving new
users, etc)? What are the research
directions to achieve the advances (brief, not a long list please)? (Your answers here are needed for the
breakout group #1. Please answer briefly.)
(4)
What types of IDM-related research activities that NSF
could/should support (e.g., industrial collaboration, summer courses for
inter-disciplinary training, industrial research, infrastructure research,
etc)? (Your answers here are needed for the breakout groups #2, and #3. Please
answer briefly.)
(5) What are the types of activities that the IDM research community can do (e.g., in conferences, in professional societies)? Please answer briefly.
Deadline for discussion/breakout group
position statement submission is February 28, 2000.
Please prepare your position statements to at least two
of the questions above as a text/MS Word/HTML file, and submit its URL electronically by
clicking HERE.
We thank you for your contributions!