Open Government: Research Administration Data (OG:RAD) Subcommittee
Purpose
The Open Government Research Administration Data (OG:RAD) effort is FDP’s data centric, evidence based subcommittee. Dedicated to surfacing pain points, assessing them for burden, compiling evidence, and working with our Federal partners to provide feedback to help ensure efficiency and effectiveness in their modernization efforts. In addition, we monitor all legislation and memos for impact on our work related to data requirements or potentially burdensome reporting. This subcommittee is part of the Research Administration Committee.
Within the FDP we look to support a Community of Practice (CoP) for discussing data and solutions in the grants administration space. This user group is always looking to bring forward ideas from the community that use data to assess or manage their local operations such as dashboards, golden spreadsheets, or process augmentations.
Committee, Subcommittee, Working Groups
For each data, evidence based effort OG:RAD establishes and helps manage a work group. Work groups consist of leads, volunteers and a project manager/organizer.
Current Efforts:
- FDP HERD Survey – Understanding and quantifying the process many institutions have developed to complete the HERD survey will allow FDP members to learn best practices and provide adequate support to the research administrators tasked with completing the survey. Participation of the NSF HERD Survey Manager will enable a partnership that creates an open dialog between the surveyor and survey participants about how the questions are being interpreted and answered.
- The Researcher Profile Optimization Study (RPOS) – aims to support FDP efforts by providing valuable data and insights into the process of managing Researcher profile information for federal funding applications. The goal is to enhance the national research community’s ability to implement integrated infrastructures that efficiently manage and promote the use of high-quality information about funded researchers.
Previous Initiatives:
- Letter of Credit (LoC) Drawdown Survey – Report (working version), June 2022
General Intentions:
- Monitor Legislation. Monitor and provide evidence for Modernization & Performance.gov,
- Foster data solution sharing and various partnerships
Open Government: Research Administration Data Structure
Core Group (subcommittee chairs) looks to facilitate the following to provide vision for current and existing workgroups on data driven opportunities
Workgroups: Established as needed based on various demands for topics and treatment
Standing Group: Data Analysis and Business Intelligence Community of Practice
Work with folks to demo local data solutions like dashboards and key metrics from our partner institutions. Open call for participants. Contact us and let’s make sure you are able to demonstrate your data wares!
FDP Meeting Session Slides & Meeting Summaries
All meeting presentations and summaries can be located at the Meetings & Listening Sessions webpage.
Contact Information
- Richard Fenger, rfenger@uw.edu (Co-Chair) University of Washington
- Andrea Anderson, anandrea@umich.edu (Co-Chair) University of Michigan
- Avi Tembulkar, atembulk@nsf.gov (Co-Chair) National Science Foundation
- Listserv: FDP members can join the OG:RAD listserv (fdp-open-gvmnt-l@lsw.nas.edu) for updates and to post questions and comments to the committee. Subscribe at Join Listservs.