Workshop Report - Pervasive Technology Institute - Indiana University

• Collect additional information about the respondents, specifically the domain of science and
or NSF directorate. NSF sponsored activities cover a very broad range research, being able to
correlate and include science domain as a dimension for the analyses would be very useful.
• Need to explore why researchers are not using CI more? A full 53% of the respondents
indicated that they are not using CI “beyond their personal workstation or other CI operated by
themselves or their team.” Correlation with science domain and other questions could probe
whether they simply are not aware that it exists, do not understand what is possible, are already
operating their own significant CI, or is it truly not applicable to their research and scholarly
efforts.
• Based on survey feedback, we believe special attention should be paid to not using terms or
jargon that is unique to or most common in IT or NSF-OCI vernacular. Terms that cannot be
avoided (e.g., CI) should be clearly defined as part of the survey.
• Datasets are a class of resource we overlooked (e.g., genome databases).
• True to our intention, we should emphasize that the survey is intended to gleam real knowledge
about CI usage and requirements, and not just trying to justify CI.
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