Position Papers

Are you already working in the area of data discovery and/or publishing?  Do you represent a stakeholder with special requirements?  Have you developed a piece of technology that you feel is relevant to a national data infrastructure?

We would like to collect your perspectives on data discovery, access, publishing, and re-use via position papers that we will share with the Consortium. You may submit a 1-4 page document in PDF format by emailing it to info@nationaldataservice.org.  

Submitted Papers

• The National Data Service: a vision for accelerating discovery through data sharing, v1.3.1
  Ed Seidel, Rob Pennington, Gabrielle Allen, Tim Cockerill, Randy Butler, Niall Gaffney, Ian Foster, William Mischo, Carole Palmer, Raymond Plante, John Towns, Kandace Turner-Jones, and the NDS Consortium.

• Fostering Data-Intensive Science in the German Helmholtz Association
  Achim Streit

• NDAR: A Model for Results Reporting to the National Data Service
  Dan Hall

• CyberGIS Capabilities for Scalable Spatial Data Synthesis
  Anand Padmanabhan, Shaowen Wang, and Jing Gao

• Building a Community-Focused Data Platform
  Matthew J. Turk, Michael S. Warren, and Samuel W. Skillman

• Policy-­based Data Grids

  Reagan W. Moore, Arcot Rajasekar, Michael Wan, Wanye Schroeder, Antoine de Torcy, Sheau-Yen Chen, Mike Conway, and Hao Xu
  
  
• SEAD: Finding the Long Tail lost in Big Data
  Margaret Hedstrom and Jim Myers
  
  

• Active and Social Curation: Keys to Data Service Sustainability

  Jim Myers and Margaret Hedstrom

• VIVO: A Research Networking Tool That Provides Contextual Information about Researchers, Resources, and Research Datasets

  Layne M. Johnson and Dean B. Krafft