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RTI Update. PI Meeting February 17-18, 2010. Agenda. Activities since last PI meeting User Statistics Updates to infrastructure – New Home Page Phase II Planning. Activities. Participated in Belmont Workshop - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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RTI Update
PI MeetingFebruary 17-18, 2010
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Agenda
• Activities since last PI meeting• User Statistics• Updates to infrastructure – New Home Page• Phase II Planning
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Activities
• Participated in Belmont Workshop• Poster at RTI Fellows Symposium – Integrating Basic
and Applied Research: High Performance Cyberinfrastructures
• Phase II Discussions• Procedure Change
– USC Confidentiality Agreement to be included with the PCC Dataset Request MOA
• Portal Updates– Implementing security changes– Upgrading portal framework– New home page
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Compliance Activities
• Certification & Accreditation– IV&V findings implemented, final report drafted– Updated SSP, IR Plan, other documentation– 2010 Annual Assessment - Key Controls identified and
undergoing verification
• Security– Implement DHS SSL certificate– IV&V High Risk vulnerabilities remedied– Implement DotNetNuke version 5.0 for enhanced security
• Planning– Submitted Request for Change for Version 4.0
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User Statistics Request Type
StatusJanuary
2010
Cumulative (Since
Launch)
Account Requests Received 1 97
Data Provider 0 8
Data Host 0 8
Researcher 1 71
Requests Approved 0 52
Data Provider 0 3
Data Host 0 4
Researcher 0 45
Requests Pending - Awaiting S/A Letter 0 27
Data Provider 0 2
Data Host 0 1
Researcher 0 24
Requests Rejected 0 18
Data Provider 0 3
Data Host 0 3
Researcher 0 12
Dataset Requests Received 1 29
Request Pending - Awaiting MOA 1 10
Requests Approved 0 19
Requests Rejected 0 0
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Organizations
Eligible• Academia 43• Government 9• Private Sector 37
Ineligible• International 8
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Dataset Utilization
1 LBNL Does not currently participate in PREDICT.
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Updates to infrastructure – New Home Page
Version 4.0
http://predictbeta.rti.org
alternate
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PREDICT Phase II Issues & Discussion
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Phase II Issues
• Impact on Researchers• Impact on Data Hosts/Data Providers• Impact on ARB and PRB• Impact on Advisory Board• Impact on Process• Impact on Documentation• Unresolved Issues
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Impact on Process
• Data Provider changes• Contact with Researchers • Foreign researchers from
approved institutions• Matchmaking between
providers and researchers (special MOA)
• Public Metadata plus more• Application review and the
ARB• Required anonymization
• PRB review• Advisory board interaction
with privacy community • USC confidentiality
agreement• More institution MOAs
versus individual researcher MOAs
• Restrict SCA data if to government entities
• New datasets
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Contact with Researchers
• More information from Researchers– Collect more contact information on the Sponsorship Letter– Require more details for dataset requests– Attachment B: USC confidentiality agreement– System automation for MOA, expiration & data destruction
processes
• More frequent/different interaction with Researchers– Proactive emails– Matchmaking
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Foreign Researchers
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Matchmaking
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Public Access to Metadata
More info in metadata?
Metadata from hosts
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Application Review
• Expand ARB?• Urge member participation• Adjust size of ARB for each review• How long to serve?• Response time• Privacy issues
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Publication Review
• Review Process for PRB– Data Provider– PCC– Anyone else?
• Requirements for Researchers
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Remaining Issues
• Advisory Board roles and responsibilities • More institution MOAs versus individual researcher
MOAs• Restrict Stored Communications Act (SCA) data if
government entities
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Impact on Data Hosts / Data Providers
• Give data to PREDICT– Eliminates need to manage expiration of access
• New Datasets– Non-anonymized data
• Expand metadata• Provider Testing• Public Provider Data
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Documents Affected
• PIA• Sponsorship Letter
– Revised: Researcher, Data Host, Data Provider– New: PCC and Foreign Country
• MOAs– Revised: Researcher, Data Host, Data Provider– New: PCC and Foreign Country
• Internal PCC docs• ARB, PRB, Advisory Board docs
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Unresolved Issues
• Providers distributing data outside of PREDICT• Periodic verification of access to data• ARB approval process – no response
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Discussion