From sarah.emery at caltech.edu Wed Jul 8 10:21:46 2009 From: sarah.emery at caltech.edu (Sarah Emery Bunn) Date: Wed Jul 8 10:21:49 2009 Subject: [NVO News] e-Infrastructure Survey Message-ID: <4A54D5AA.9020000@caltech.edu> A group at the University of Chicago, Department of Sociology, is involved in a study of how networking, distributed databases, grid computing, etc., are affecting both software development and scientific research. The US National Virtual Observatory is of particular interest to them. They have developed a survey to help judge the impact of these new technologies, and I encourage you to take a few minutes to fill it out (they say it takes 20 minutes, but it is more like 5-10). Some of the language of the survey is pretty technical, but overall it is not too bad. They will share the results with the NVO project, and this could be helpful to our understanding of how to focus our energies in the future to make the VO more useful. So, please have a look. What follows is the invitation to participate from the survey leader at U. Chicago, and then there is a link to the survey itself. Thanks! Bob Hanisch US-VO Project Manager -- Dear colleagues, The University of Chicago/National Opinion Research Center, the Oxford Internet Institute, the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland and empirica Communication and Technology Research collaborate on a study that will propose strategies to enhance e-Infrastructure (Cyberinfrastructure) uptake and use in different fields of science. The work is done on behalf of the European Commission, Directorate General Information Society and Media, and results will be shared with the NSF and other interested parties. In order to have our community represented well in the study and to help our planning, please take approximately 20 minutes to fill in their online questionnaire before July 31st. If you have additional questions and comments please contact the project team directly at eResearch2020@empirica.com. The link to the survey: http://tinyurl.com/mtaklr Thank you for your input! ============================= Zack Kertcher Ph.D. Candidate Department of Sociology University of Chicago 1126 East 59th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 kertcher@uchicago.edu (773) 493-3360 http://home.uchicago.edu/~kertcher/