The COOL RDC An Exercise in DLI RDC Co-operation

The COOL RDC: An Exercise in DLI/RDC Co-operation Wendy Watkins Carleton University April 12, 2005

Outline ® One Year Ago ® The Process ® Cardinal Rules ® The Partners ® Goals ® Promotion ® Projects ® Today ® Lessons learned

One Year Ago ® What we didn’t have: ® Formal agreement ® Budget ® Name ® Architectural ® What plans we DID have ® Working ® Location ® Vision group

Process ® Carleton/UOttawa ® Everything equal partners split 50 -50 ® Both universities own the RDC ® Overhead charged to the RDC ® Both DLI contacts part of planning process ® Working group drafters of agreements ® No senior management involvement until signing cheques

Cardinal Rules ® Settle contentious issues before moving on ® Bring NO questions to senior management ® Fait ® Stop accompli only svp process until both universities’ management signed off ® Keep all documents, minutes, etc. available on website ® DLI a participant from the outset

The Partners ® COOL partners ® Carleton’s and UOttawa’s Data Services ® Carleton’s and UOttawa’s Researchers ® Universite de Quebec en Outaouais’ researchers ® Tentative members ® NGO’s ® Quasi-arms-length policy shops

Goals of the COOL RDC ® Democratize access to data to students as well as elite research faculty ® Develop DLI/RDC educational programs ® Provide bilingual service ® Facilitate interprovincial collaboration ® Involve NGOs ® Conduct research into automated disclosure analyses

Promotion ® Advertised-workshops explaining RDC ® DLI/RDC presentations at: ® Departmental meetings ® Faculty boards ® Joint workshops in statistical methods ® Feature articles in research publications ® Grand opening in September

Projects ® Statistical workshops ® RDC-related courses ® Aimed from Honours’ to Post-Ph. D ® Theme-related workshops ® Health/epidemiology ® Interprovincial relations, etc. ® Disclosure-analysis research with Computing Science and Math/Stats

Yesterday ® What we didn’t have ® Final security inspection ® Data ® What we did have ® Everything else ® On time and under budget

Today We are open for business!!!!!

Lessons Learned ® Inter-university projects can work if you have: ®a strong, committed team ® a vision ® concrete goals ® an ethic of co-operation