Do any DHers have a set of University or College IT policies that govern the types of access DH scholars have to university computer resources? Virginia Commonwealth University is launching a Humanities Center and we want to have sample policies governing scholar access to servers (admin access, remote access, access for collaborating scholars) to show to the university IT people. IT is pretty centralized here and is not used to providing tech infrastructure to Humanities (as opposed to medical) researchers.
Seeking IT Policies and Best Practices for DH Scholars (server access, etc.)
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James Smith
MemberHere at TAMU, we have a number of groups providing support for research-oriented computing. They have various procedures and rules for handling accounts and access.
The main two that come to mind:
* http://sc.tamu.edu/ - TAMU Supercomputing Group
* http://brazos.tamu.edu/ - HPC cluster
Most of them have fairly loose rules designed to ensure the researcher has the flexibility they need while not compromising the security of the system.
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Up here at University of Mary Washington, we've handled that less through an IT policy, and more through university structure. The DH/Ed. Tech shop I'm in is not a part of IT -- we're in Academic Affairs, reporting up to the Provost. This keeps the priority in all decisions on the academic/research side, which in turn helps us just go forward with projects with faculty members with their priorities and goals.
Granted, we don't have researchers doing supercomputing -- most of the work we do involves PHP-based web projects, some text encoding, audio and video work, and especially our campus blogging / site-building system. All that is currently externally hosted, so we don't depend on IT for server space, access etc.
But the upshot and broader principle, to me, is that as much as possible keeping the Provost's Office tied to the shop is important, especially if the Provost can trump the CIO. The control that university IT has usually had over resources and how to use them, I think, can sometimes be at odds with academic freedom, and us being firmly under the Provost, not the CIO, has been a huge strength for us that makes some of the IT policy issues disappear.
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Replying to @les.harrison@gmail.com's post:
At the University of Victoria, we have a specific computing group for Humanities. You might find some/all of the information at the web site for the Humanities Computing & Media Centre helpful.
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