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Face 2 Face 2008 – Early Regisration Cut-off April 19

webmaster — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:33:32 +0000

ITANA Face 2 Face 2008 Registration now open.

Early Registration ends April 19, 2008.

Registration is limited to two people from each institution so you should talk amongst yourselves and figure out who will attend. Additional people will be allowed if space permits. Please use the Registration Form to sign up. You should receive a confirmation email within 24 hours. Space is limited so sign up early.

Join us in Minneapolis, Minnesota for the ITANA Face 2 Face 2008 meeting. Join with your peers in an intimate day-long meeting and discuss a rich agenda of current topics. See you in Minneapolis – Jim Phelps, Chair.

Date: June 18, 2008

Time: 9AM to 5PM

Location: Hilton Minneapolis

Hotel registration information will be sent upon receipt of your registration request.

Agenda:

Time	Activity	Session Leader
9:00AM	Convene
9:00 to 9:15 AM	Welcome, logistics et al	Jim Phelps
9:15 to 10:15 AM	Session 1 – Tools of the trade	Hebert Diaz-Flores
	We’ll showcase some of the tools, methodologies, artifacts, techniques, or tactics that we use to engender increased architectural coherence across the infrastructures and business & operational processes we’re connected with. The session will help us to think about the range of ways in which we might influence others by use of the tools with which we engage them.
10:15 to 10:30 AM	break
10:30 to Noon	Session 2 – Case Studies: Architecture on Your Campus	Tom Barton
	This session will focus on Case Studies from several institutions including: Descriptions of ongoing Enterprise Architecture programs in your university. How, Who, What, and any impacts the program has had/is having on your IT environment. Descriptions of specific projects that have been significantly impacted (positively) by the Enterprise Architecture program.
Noon to 1:00PM	Lunch
1:00 to 2:30 PM	Hot Topics – Data Management	Klara Jelinkova
	There is a rich set of metadata and middleware needed to support the data classification we are starting to put in place for at least business applications. And the need will become even greater once we develop the same classifications for all of our institutional data including research data. Institutions seem to have a pretty good handle at least theoretically on business data. But once we start to cross over to other assets such as data associated with research, teaching and learning most IT organizations seem to give up. That type of data is viewed by most IT organizations in our institutions as someone else’s problem. However it is an important IT and security problem. With collaborative research taking place everywhere how do we classify the research data, protect it while the research is going on and then enable everyone to see after the research is published? How do we collaborate with the libraries on this one? How do we arrive at data management policies that cut across the whole institution? What are some of the examples of institutions doing it successfully today?
2:30 to 2:45	break
2:45 to 3:45	Hot Topics – Security Architecture	Steve Kellog
	There is a rich set of metadata and middleware needed to support the data classification we are starting to put in place for at least business applications. And the need will become even greater once we develop the same classifications for all of our institutional data including research data. Institutions seem to have a pretty good handle at least theoretically on business data. But once we start to cross over to other assets such as data associated with research, teaching and learning most IT organizations seem to give up. That type of data is viewed by most IT organizations in our institutions as someone else’s problem. However it is an important IT and security problem. With collaborative research taking place everywhere how do we classify the research data, protect it while the research is going on and then enable everyone to see after the research is published? How do we collaborate with the libraries on this one? How do we arrive at data management policies that cut across the whole institution? What are some of the examples of institutions doing it successfully today?
3:45 to 4:00	break
4:00 to 4:45	Hot Topics – Your items here	Jim Phelps
4:45 to 5:00	Closing Remarks	Jim Phelps

NOTE: This conference is jointly sponsored by EDUCAUSE and Internet2. Thank you sponsors.

CIO Survey on Enterprise Architecture

webmaster — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:34:32 +0000

ITANA has closed the survey listed below and the results are here:

EA in HE Survey 2008 Results

Call for Participation in the 2008 survey

ITANA is conducting a survey of higher education CIOs on Enterprise Architecture. The survey was distributed to the EDUCAUSE CIO constituent group list.

A copy of the survey questions can be downloaded here:

CIO EA Survey PDF

We will report out the results of the survey at the ITANA Constituent Group meeting at EDUCAUSE. It will also act as a base for a white paper on EA in higher education.

Technorati Tags: EDUCAUSE, ITANA

Face 2 Face meeting planning

webmaster — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:35:15 +0000

I have posted a copy of the survey summary and some initial planning documents on the wiki at: https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/itana/Face2Face

Reminder: register for the Face 2 Face meeting. Send an email to:

itana-info AT internet2 DOT edu

Make the subject line: ITANA Meeting Registration

include in the body of the message:

Your Name:
Institution:
Job Title:

Face 2 Face Survey now live

webmaster — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 15:00:59 +0000

Hi All,

The Face 2 Face survey is now live. You can fill out the survey here:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=585673594090

Jim

Face 2 Face Meeting – May 22, 2007 – Columbia University

webmaster — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:36:52 +0000

As you may know we are holding a one-day meeting at Columbia University 22-May
10AM to 5PM, and we have a small block of hotel rooms reserved (until 7-April)
for Monday night 21-May at a special rate of $250+taxes/fees. This is just
before the CSG meeting, but is completely separate and unrelated to CSG.
Registration for the ITANA meeting DOES NOT register you for the CSG meeting,
and vice versa.

There is no registration fee for this meeting, but all travel and other expenses
are your responsibility.

If you are interested please register ASAP. To register, send an e-mail to itana-info@internet2.edu with:

Subject: ITANA Meeting Registration

and include:
Your Name
Institution
Job Title

Upon registration you will receive info on the hotel room block. Space in the
meeting room is limited to 36, and registration is first-come up to two per
institution, after which we will put you on a waiting list until we determine if
we have room to accommodate more from individual institutions.

As always, please refer to the website and wiki for more detailed information,
including the development of a survey which will inform the agenda for the
meeting at Columbia.

http://www.itana.org/

https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/itana/Home

EDUCAUSE Mid-West Regional Conference – ITANA Round Table

webmaster — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:36:06 +0000

If you will be at the EDUCAUSE MWRC this week, there is a round table lunch on Tuesday for ITANA.

http://www.educause.edu/MWRC07/Program/11326?PRODUCT_CODE=MWRC07/DISC21

Stop by if you are in Chicago for this meeting this week.

Jim

Welcome to ITANA.ORG – Who, What, Why et al

webmaster — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:25:40 +0000

I have been talking with peers around the country about starting a peer group for I.T. Architects in Academia. Below you will find more information. As a note here: I have been contacted by at least three different universities in the past 6 months about starting their own Architecture group. They have all asked for info about what I.T. Architecture does, skills needed, where to learn more, etc.

What It Is:

- A group of I.T. Architects in Academia and those who wish to become an I.T. Architect

Why:

- Share insights, tricks and tips on how we do our jobs. What works? What doesn’t?
- Compare notes on various software packages (like UML modeling tools)
- Compare success stories – develop methodologies that work
- Share documents and models from projects on our campuses that we thought worked well
- Develop common models for common activities
- Create a space for creating new I.T. Architects and for expanding the suite of expertise in the field
- Act as a voice for I.T. Architecture on campuses where they might be thinking about adding us to their org chart

What the participants would gain:

- The help of the other “big thinkers” around the US and the world
- EDUCAUSE blessed standard models for key activities that we could adopt
- A larger pool of I.T. Architecture brain-power that we could draw from for various topics

How it will be organized:

After some phone calls and chats, it seems that the logical organization would be two fold:
- There would be an I.T. Architecture working group under MACE (Middleware Architecture Committee for Education)
- There would be a broader peer group under EDUCAUSE

Why the two part organization:

- MACE meets more often which allows for more face-2-face meetings on topics
- EDUCAUSE has broader reach and touches more organizations.
- EDUCAUSE is also a place where executives might come to learn more about the role I.T. Architecture, its benefits and resources for building a group on their campus.

Next Steps:

- Creating a collaborative space (email list, wiki, repository) for the group
- Sending and email like the one above to the CIO and Identity Management lists for EDUCAUSE
- Sending invitations to the various known I.T. Architects around the country to join the organization
- Setting up a time at the fall EDUCAUSE meeting in Dallas Texas in October for a kick-off meeting

Thoughts and comments welcome.

Jim Phelps, IT Architect @ UW-Madison