Do you want to better understand the strengths and growth opportunities of your institution’s RCD program? Submit your current assessment data to the RCD Capabilities Model by December 31 to be part of the current year’s Community Dataset Report. The new online assessment tool makes the process easier and you’ll gain access to community benchmarking data in our new visualisation portal.
Why participate?
The RCD Capabilities Model allows participating institutions to:
- Assess their support for computationally- and data-intensive research.
- Identify potential areas for improvement.
- Understand how the broader community views Research Computing and Data support.
Contributing institutions help build the Community Dataset, and enrich the resulting picture we have of our community. You will get access to the benchmarking functionality on the new visualization portal that compares your assessment to the community at-large, as well as segments of the community (R1s, R2s, Public or Private institutions, etc.; on the new portal you can define your benchmarking peer groups!). As a contributor, you will also get access to more detailed reporting functionality on the new portal, to dig into the data and create custom visualizations.
Have questions or need help?
You can get help, including advice on how to approach your assessment, understanding the questions, and interpreting the results by emailing capsmodel-help@carcc.org, or joining our RCD CM Office Hours on the second Tuesday of each month at 1pm ET. You can also subscribe to the capsmodel-discuss@carcc.org discussion list (click here to join), to hear how other institutions are completing their assessment and using it as part of strategic planning.
Want more information?
To find more information and background on the RCD Capabilities Model visit the RCD Capabilities Model webpage.
This work is supported by RCD Nexus, an NSF CI Center of Excellence Pilot under grant OAC-2100003, and the Campus Research Computing Consortium (CaRCC).