Charge I Initiatives I Documents I Committee Members

• Serve as umbrella entity to ERA related task groups
• Furnish guidelines for ERA development
• Provide faculty perspective regarding ERA initiatives
• Establish and maintain relationship with other organizations’ ERA initiatives
• Establish and maintain relationship with the Grants.gov effort and related research data standards work under P.L. 106-107
• Coordinate presentations while

• Maximizing standards of input by maintaining the notion of objectivity through an honest broker role (stepping outside university/federal position and using a holistic viewpoint).
• Providing a bridging role to all other stakeholders (speak all languages to adjust communication gaps).

• ERA Sponsor Matrix

• Electronic Grants Business Forum Subcommittee
• PL 106-107 Task Force
• Web Site Development and Internal Communications Workgroup
• Publications Workgroup
• Institutional Review Board Task Force
• Return on Investment Task Force

• PESC Guidelines for XML Architecture and Data Modeling v3 0 (PDF)
• Agency ERA Systems Matrix (October 2003) (PDF)

• ERA Core Principles - Summary (PDF)
• ERA Core Principles – Detail Policy (PDF)

• Grants.gov Web Site
• System to System Workshop – March 31, 2005
• Questions and Answers from the Grants.gov Spread the Word Webcast held March 9, 2005, http://www.grants.gov/assets/WebcastQA.pdf (PDF)
• E-Government Web Site
• E-Government Strategy-2002 (PDF)
• E-Government Strategy-2003 (PDF)
• OMB Clarification on Agency Use of Grants.gov FIND and APPLY Functionality, January 9, 2004 (PDF)
• OMB FY2004 Grants.gov Funding and Advanced Planning for FY2005-FY2006, June 18, 2004 (PDF)

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