NCURA ERA Cookbook
The NCURA ERA Cookbook is a web based, instructional Electronic Research Administration (ERA) manual, a "cookbook," that would provide information for universities to more easily build and integrate ERA mechanisms into their own workplace. The Cookbook will essentially represent a set of "recipies" (knowledge and technology) collected from those universities that have been proactively creating their own ERA systems - and would share those recipies (and in some cases, the software itself) with the rest of the community.
The cookbook will be built as a series of chapters, with each chapter devoted to a particular piece (module) of a comprehensive ERA system.
Organization:
Project Leads: Danny Powell & Steve Dowdy
Divided up into 9 chapters, with an "editor" and a "chapter committee" for each chapter:
1. Funding Opportunities (Editor: Susan Krause)
2. Proposal Development (Editor: Jean Humphries)
3. Institutional Routing/Approval: (Editor: TBN)
4. Submission: (Editor: Erin Lindsay)
5. Compliance: (Editor: Bambi Jo Grilley)
6. Negotiation and Acceptance (Editor: Pam Webb)
7. Start Up: (Editor: TBN)
8. Management: (Editor: TBN)
9. Reporting: (Editor: TBN)
NOTE: Suggestions for editors for the TBN positions will be welcomed.
NOTE: Volunteers for the chapter committees will also be welcomed.
Phase I: Survey of Existing Systems)Phase II: Comparative Analysis of Existing Systems)a. Determine how chapter subtopics will be organized
b. Compile list of existing systems and systems under development
c. Complete information survey on these systems
a. Comparative analysis of different systems
b. List of recommended data elements and functionalities of:
1. A minimal system; and
2. A more complex, fully integrated system
c. Determine best practices.
Currently: Survey developed to gather software tools and ERA methods used by research administrators across the country. PLEASE ENCOURAGE your audience to go to the survey and fill it out. It's at: http://www.crpc.rice.edu/ncura/era/survey.html
NOTE: The more surveys that are completed, even those who don't have much in the way of software tools yet, the sooner the Cookbook will be ready to go public. If you fill out the survey, we'll also have a record of your needs and can pro-actively let you know of available tools that are available.