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Information Technology Strategic Plan

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Contents  IT Strategic Plan (pdf)  Overview  Message from the CIO  Executive Summary  Ohio State's Information Technology Vision  What Ohio State Needs: Critical Success Factors  Strategic Initiative: Knowledge Bank  Implementation  Conclusion  Appendix A: Project Participants  Appendix B: The Planning Process  Appendix C: Current State Analysis Details  Appendix D: Current State and Academic Plan  Appendix E: Technology Days Details  Appendix F: Focus Group Discussion Details  Appendix G: Future State Emerging Themes  Appendix H: Gap Analysis Details  Appendix I: Strategic Initiatives Details  Appendix J: Strategic Initiatives Funding

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Knowledge Bank  Strategic Initiative

 Summary
 Full Description
 Benefits
 Proposed Leadership
 Metrics
 Estimated Investments/Potential Funding
 Recent Actions
 List of Strategic Initiatives

Summary
A Knowledge Bank is a managed digital repository for intellectual property that gives the campus community simple, seamless access to a wide range of diverse university digital information assets and resources. It enables faculty to share files across departments or colleges and universities to leverage research in teaching environments. It also gives the larger community appropriate access to the university’s digital resources.

Full Description

Develop and implement the Ohio State University Knowledge Bank. Establish standards for accessibility, transmission and delivery of digital assets such as large data sets including images with other faculty, students and funding agencies.

The campus community needs simple, seamless access to a broad range of diverse university digital information assets and resources; access that is compatible with firewalls and other security issues, that enables faculty to share files across departments, or colleges and universities to leverage research in teaching environments, or gives the broader community appropriate access to the university’s digital resources. A Knowledge Bank provides that seamless access and establishes standards for accessibility, transmission and delivery of digital assets such as large data sets, including images, to other faculty, students and funding agencies. A Knowledge Bank is a managed digital repository for intellectual property, with tools and engines to federate that repository with collaborating on- and off-campus digital libraries and collections and a web-based portal to identify, integrate, and deliver digital assets from all sources. A Knowledge Bank’s easy integrated access translates to more effective learning for students; more productive instruction and research for faculty; the ability for staff to provide optimal support and administration; and for the state of Ohio, promises more growth and economic development. Such generalizations encompass these specific benefits: improved access to scholarly communication; content integration to drive knowledge and development of instructional materials; enhanced instruction and research effectiveness; archiving and preservation of digital output; automatic preparation of Promotion and Tenure reports; reduced growth in cost and better synergies and economies of scale; leveraging of institutional knowledge capital (e.g., innovative re-use of research and learning materials); and fulfillment of Ohio State’s land-grant outreach mission.

Benefits

• More effective learning for students
• More productive instruction and research for faculty
• The ability for staff to provide optimal support and administration
• Promise of more growth and economic development for the state of Ohio
• Improved access to scholarly communication
• Content integration to drive knowledge and development of instructional materials
• Enhanced instruction and research effectiveness
• Archiving and preservation of digital output
• Reduced growth in cost and better synergies and economies of scale
• Leveraging of institutional knowledge capital
• Fulfillment of Ohio State’s land-grant outreach mission

Proposed Leadership

• Office of Academic Affairs
• - Ohio State University Libraries
• - Chief Information Officer
• University Senate Council on Library and Information Technology
• Office of Research
• Colleges/Regionals
• Departments

Metrics

• Amount of intellectual property submitted to the repository
• Effectiveness of Knowledge Bank relative to other Higher Education efforts
• Amount of grant and corporate support for Knowledge Bank

Estimated Investments/Potential Funding

• New funds

Recent Actions

• Redirected internal Library and CIO staff and hardware resources for pilot
• OSU included in MIT Mellon grant for D-Space Federation participation
• OSU Libraries received $400,000 cash in new FY04 funding for Knowledge Bank

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