1. 2010 Site Operations Manager’s Workshop – April 15 th and 16 th 1 SOM 2010 Workshop Austin, TX NEEScomm IT Update Dawn Weisman – NEEScomm Director of IT

2. 2010 Site Operations Manager’s Workshop – April 15 th and 16 th 2 Discussion Outline Organizational Status NEEShub Release 1 Site-Specific Functionality Data Curation Strategy Questions/Discussion

3. 2010 Site Operations Manager’s Workshop – April 15 th and 16 th 3 Organizational Status Transition effort completed –Migrated www.nees.org from San Diego hardware to Purdue hardware –NEEScomm IT supporting www.nees.org as of February 22 Development Ramp Up –Hub architecture and environment –Development processes and tools Code merge Requirements Management Tool - Polarion –Build domain knowledge

4. 2010 Site Operations Manager’s Workshop – April 15 th and 16 th Organizational Status NEEScomm IT Org Chart Software Engineer Rajesh Thyagarajan Dave Benham Software Engineer Sr. Software Engineer Greg Rodgers Sr. Software Engineer Brian Rohler Data Curator Standa Pejsa Director of IT Dawn Weisman IT Admin Assistant Debbie Nahlik Software Engineer Gemez Marshall HUBzero Consultant Ann Christine Catlin –.2 Cybersecurity Engineer (tbd) DBA Jerry Rowley (.5)

5. 2010 Site Operations Manager’s Workshop – April 15 th and 16 th 5 NEEShub Release 1 Goals Frequent Community input –Requirements, Design, Screen mock ups, etc. Maintain a good balance –Take advantage of new Hub functionality –Consider learning curve when migrating to new system –Streamlined navigation Research Data improvements –Provide unstructured area to support Researcher collaboration –Improve Display, Search, and Filter capabilities –Improve Upload - faster, easier to use Tools –inDEED - Visualization and Plotting tool –Support Current tool set

6. 2010 Site Operations Manager’s Workshop – April 15 th and 16 th 6 NEEShub Release 1 Overall Process –Feedback from multiple Domain-specific groups (e.g. Engineers, HQ, Facilities) –Approach – 3 Prototypes –Prototype Timelines P1 - Week of April 12 P2 - Week of May 24 P3 - Week of July 5 –Prototype Review Groups Specific to each Prototype Leverage Site IT Managers when possible www.nees.org Content Update

7. 2010 Site Operations Manager’s Workshop – April 15 th and 16 th 7 Site-Specific Functionality General Site Content Site-specific Data in NEEScentral –View –Search –Upload Site Working/Storage area Calendar/Availability –Need to understand Site requirements Process –Brian Rohler to facilitate Site Review Group

8. 2010 Site Operations Manager’s Workshop – April 15 th and 16 th 8 Data Curation Update New Data Curator (Standa Pejsa) started April 5 Current Data Curator (Claude Trottier) extended via 3 month subcontract Priorities –Refine strategy to address Data Curation backlog –Provide improved Data Curation tool to help tackle backlog –Identify process improvements Data Curation Monitoring/Reporting Project status –Develop Data Curation Roadmap for process, tool and reporting improvements

9. 2010 Site Operations Manager’s Workshop – April 15 th and 16 th 9 Questions/Discussion