About
Background
DRI@UT was created at the University of Toronto by the Vice-President, Research & Innovation and Strategic Initiatives in 2021.
Through two standing groups a Researcher Council and an Advisory Committee – the U of T seeks to enable the creation and sustainment of a coordinated, agile, rich, diverse, effective, efficient, and secure collection of digital research infrastructure and services that meet the complex and varied needs of our research community and that is aligned with and leverages opportunities created by governments, including Canada’s Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) Strategy, and other partners.
For the purpose of these advisory groups, “digital research infrastructure” (DRI) includes:
- Advanced research computing (ARC) infrastructure and operating costs, support personnel, space.
- Research data management (RDM) resources that allow our researchers to find and access data.
- Research software (RS) resources that allow our researchers to access and use data.
- Privacy and cybersecurity considerations across all DRI domains at U of T.
Researcher Council
Mandate
- To advise on institutional decisions.
- Explicitly tasked with bringing an academic user lens to the identification of opportunities and challenges in the application of DRI across all fields of research, academic divisions and campuses.
- Members will be invited for staggered terms of up to three years.
Members
Lisa Strug
Professor & Academic Director, Data Sciences Institute, Faculty of Arts & Science, Chair, DRI Researcher Council
Leah Cowen
Vice-President, Research Innovation & Strategic Initiatives, Professor, Temerty Faculty of Medicine and Chair, DRI Advisory Committee
Chandra Singh
Assistant Professor, Materials Science & Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering
Dmitry Krass
Professor, Operations Management and Statistics and Sydney C. Cooper Chair in Business and Technology, Rotman School of Management
Elspeth Brown
Professor & Associate Vice Principal Research, Historical Studies – History, U of T Mississauga
Gary Bader
Professor & Principal Investigator, Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
James (Jim) Slotta
Professor, Curriculum, Teaching & Learning, Ontario Institute for Student in Education (OISE)
Jia Xue
Assistant Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work and the Faculty of Information (iSchool)
Juna Kollmeier
Director, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA)
Kyle Ganson
Assistant Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work
Laura Rosella
Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Pascal Tyrrell
Director, Data Science & Associate Professor, Department of Medical Imaging, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Patrick Keilty
Associate Professor, Faculty of Information and Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies
Pekka Sinervo
Professor, Department of Physics
Sara Guilcher
Associate Professor, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
Sarah Rauscher
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical & Physical Sciences, U of T Mississauga
Sean Hill
Director, Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Department of Physiology
Shari Eli
Associate Professor, Department of Economics
TL Cowan
Assistant Professor, Media Studies (Digital Media Cultures), Department of Arts, Culture and Media , U of T Scarborough and the Faculty of Information (iSchool)
Advisory Committee
Mandate
- To support institutional planning and decision-making regarding digital research resources and services at the University of Toronto.
- Bring a strategic operations lens geared toward supporting identification and implementation of solutions that support the University’s research objectives. The Committee will also provide institutional oversight for SciNet.
- Members will be invited based on their DRI-related role within the University by the Vice-President Research & Innovation and Strategic Initiatives – either on an ex officio basis in relation to their role, or for time limited terms based on their expertise.
Members
Leah Cowen
Chair
Professor & Vice-President, Research Innovation & Strategic Initiatives, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Lisa Strug
Professor & Academic Director, Data Sciences Institute, Faculty of Arts & Science
Bo Wandschneider
Chief Information Officer, Information Technology Services
Isaac Straley
Chief Information Security Officer, Information Technology Services
Larry Alford
University Chief Librarian, University of Toronto Libraries
Daniel Gruner
Chief Technical Officer, SciNet High Performance Computing Consortium
Dan Silver
Director, Toronto Region Statistics Canada Research Data Centre
Judith Chadwick
Assistant Vice-President, Research Services, Division of the Vice-President, Research & Innovation
Tibor Turi
Executive Director, SOSCIP
Vinita Haroun
Director, Centre for Research & Innovation Support
2022 Priorities
The following working groups have been established and are focusing on key initiatives for 2022:
- Transition to the Digital Research Alliance of Canada and support plans for renewal
- Privacy Compliant Proof of Concept
- Hosting and service strategy
ADVANCED RESEARCH COMPUTING (ARC)
Judith Chadwick, Assistant Vice-President, Research Services and Daniel Gruner, Chief Technical Officer, SciNet High Performance Computing Consortium
- Increasing awareness of and access to research software
RESEARCH SOFTWARE (RS)
Bo Wandschneider, Chief Information Officer, University of Toronto
- Prepare institutional RDM strategy
- Develop national platforms and provide leadership amongst peer-institutions and external entities
RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT (RDM)
Larry Alford, Chief Librarian, University of Toronto Libraries
- Design, implement and communicate on information security supports in concert with external entities (CanSSOC, Alliance, etc.)
- Negotiate a research appropriate security framework
CYBERSECURITY
Isaac Straley, Chief Information Security Officer, University of Toronto
- Outreach, Consultation and Communication
- DRI Portal Website
- Resources, Education and Training
- Advocacy
CROSS-CUTTING INITIATIVES
Vinita Haroun, Director, Centre for Research & Innovation Support (CRIS) and Judith Chadwick, Assistant Vice-President, Research Services
Table of Contents
Contents
- Background
- Lisa Strug
- Leah Cowen
- Chandra Singh
- Dmitry Krass
- Elspeth Brown
- Gary Bader
- James (Jim) Slotta
- Jia Xue
- Juna Kollmeier
- Kyle Ganson
- Laura Rosella
- Pascal Tyrrell
- Patrick Keilty
- Pekka Sinervo
- Sara Guilcher
- Sarah Rauscher
- Sean Hill
- Shari Eli
- TL Cowan
- Leah Cowen
- Lisa Strug
- Bo Wandschneider
- Isaac Straley
- Larry Alford
- Daniel Gruner
- Dan Silver
- Judith Chadwick
- Tibor Turi
- Vinita Haroun
- 2022 Priorities
