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This strong signal from our PI’s has led to the formation of the ‘ICT for Research’ taskforce. The taskforce is formed by René Bindels (Director RIMLS), Nicolai Giling (Managing Director), Arnoud van der Maas (Chief Information Officer for Research) and Barbara van Kampen (Operational manager).
The overall goal of this taskforce is to enhance the ICT support for researchers in RIMLS to a great infrastructure. Shortly after the formation, the taskforce identified four initial areas of development:
1. Improve communication towards the research community
We decided to ask the community to provide more direction through a survey. The survey was sent to all members of the RIMLS newsletter. With a response of 212 out of 1200 recipients of which were 92% researcher, we had a good response. You can find the results of the ‘short survey ICT for Research’ here.
The main findings from this survey are:
Thank you for your time and feedback. The steering committee will use this output to discuss how we can put this result into action. We will use the newsletter and information meetings to stay in touch.
The RIMLS research strategy includes an infrastructure ambition:
‘We will maintain and expand our research facilities and related ICT infrastructure to meet the demands of present and future research goals with optimal operational excellence safeguarding their sustainability.’
This strong signal from our PI’s has led to the formation of the ‘ICT for Research’ taskforce. The taskforce is formed by René Bindels (Director RIMLS), Nicolai Giling (Managing Director), Arnoud van der Maas (Chief Information Officer for Research) and Barbara van Kampen (Operational manager).
The overall goal of this taskforce is to enhance the ICT support for researchers in RIMLS to a great infrastructure. Shortly after the formation, the taskforce identified four initial areas of development:
1. Improve communication towards the research community
- Improve the IM Portal with better information for researchers
- Improve the communication of IM activities and policies
- Start using the RIMLS news letter as a channel
- Data storage, compute power, connectivity (architecture)
- Workstations (type, choices and support)
- Equipment related ICT (identify, support, improve)
- What will the ICT agenda for research in the near future look like?
We decided to ask the community to provide more direction through a survey. The survey was sent to all members of the RIMLS newsletter. With a response of 212 out of 1200 recipients of which were 92% researcher, we had a good response. You can find the results of the ‘short survey ICT for Research’ here.
The main findings from this survey are:
- Researchers use a wide variety of ICT workstations
- If the IM standard meets the needs of a researcher, IM delivers well.
- However, a large group uses non standard ICT workstations.
- Researchers express the need of special software (updates & installing), high standards and capacity for storage, compute power, data sharing, network and data management. This is the area that needs improvement.
- Although improvements have been made, many researchers express the need for more commitment to the research environment from IM and the Radboudumc management.
Thank you for your time and feedback. The steering committee will use this output to discuss how we can put this result into action. We will use the newsletter and information meetings to stay in touch.
