Electronic Research Administration Standing Committee

Charge I Initiatives I Documents I Committee Members

Charge of the Committee

• 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).

Initiatives

ERA Committee Goals and Objectives

Current Initiatives

• ERA Sponsor Matrix

Inactive/Completed Initiatives

• 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

Steering Committee Minutes

• February 2011

Documents

• PESC Guidelines for XML Architecture and Data Modeling v3 0 (PDF)
• Agency ERA Systems Matrix (October 2003) (PDF)
• Requirements Gathering Spreadsheet for Grants Management Systems
• Report on Survey of Institutional Investment in Grants.gov
• Grant Report Information Project (GRIP) Final Report

ERA Core Principles

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

E-Government Initiatives

• 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)

Committee Members

Committee Mailing List - FDP-ERA-L@LSW.NAS.EDU

Member	Organization
Ron Splittgerber (Co-chair)	Colorado State
Jason Hitchcock (Co-Chair)	USDA/NIFA
Simone Alpen	Harvard University
Megan Columbus	NIH/OD
Sheri Cummins	National Institutes of Health
Tammy Custer	Cornell University
Adrienne Deitemeyer	National Science Foundation
Stephen Dowdy	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thomas Drinane	Dartmouth College
Kevin Ferrell	University of New Mexico
Kristie Froman	Harvard University
Scarlett Gibbs	National Institutes of Health
Kellie Guentert	Oregon Health & Sciences University
Debbie Nixon	Duke University
Vonnie Perkins	University of Maryland, College Park
Rebecca Puig	University of South Florida
Tye Rougas	Texas A&M Research Foundation
Lori Ann M. Schultz	University of Arizona
Brad Stanford	ONR/Research Administration
Courtney Swaney	University of Texas, Austin
Mark Sweet	University of Wisconsin, Madison
Don Turner	St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Don Denson (Faculty Liaison)	Emory University
Ren Ostrom (Faculty Liaison)	University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Priya Jayaraman	National Science Foundation
Bronda Harrison	Environmental Protection Agency