Invitation to Join EARS Pamela Webb 06 Aug 1997 10:14 EST
As you may know, the FDP and NCURA are undertaking a joint project related to Electronic Approval and Routing Systems, known affectionately as "EARS" for short. The objective of this taskforce is to investigate, design, develop, test and distribute alternative solutions for an electronic research administration system module to do institutional routing and approval of contract and grant proposals and other research-related documents. More information about this task force and its plans can be found on either the EARS Workgroup section of the FDP website, or on the NCURA website at: http://www.dml.georgetown.edu/fdp/ea.html -0r- http://nhse.cs.rice.edu:80/ncura/ We are extremely interested in having a *diverse* group of institutions participate in this project, in order that we can develop a set of solutions that will work for many different types of institutions. So far, 21 different institutions (some FDP member institutions, some with NCURA members, some both) have expressed an interest in participating in the Phase I of the project, which includes includes the investigation of the current state of the art in this area, and an evaluation of the needs and potential solutions which seem most viable. The diversity of this group is impressive, ranging from institutions with fewer than $10M in federal research support to more than $220M, and including both public and private institutions and one hospital. We are interested, however, in adding several more institutions to the group, and we have targeted the following "high need" areas in particular: * Public institutions having approx. $30 - $50M in federal research support * Public or private institutions with less than $30M in federal research support * Public institutions with between $100 - $200M in federal research support * Hospitals or research institutes of any size If you are an FDP member institution or an NCURA member and are interested in having your institution participate in Phase I, please contact either Nancy Wilkinson or myself BY TUESDAY, AUGUST 12TH. It is *not* necessary that your institution be currently working on an electronic routing system to participate in Phase I, but volunteers are assumed to be interested in such a development. We do, however, ask volunteers to actively participate in discussions and workgroup tasks. If you are interested in this area but don't feel that you have time to participate actively, please feel free to stay abreast of developments in this area by perusing the web sites listed above at regular intervals. We are posting this invitation to a number of different listservs, so our apologies if you get this message more than once. -- Nancy Wilkinson and Pamela Webb (Co-Chairs) xxxxxx@osp.emory.edu & xxxxxx@omni.ucsb.edu Pamela A. Webb Manager, Sponsored Projects University of California, Santa Barbara Phone: (805) 893-4036 Fax: (805) 893-26ll Email: xxxxxx@omni.ucsb.edu