[open-science] OKF tools: ckan.org, thedatahub.org

[Carl Boettiger]

Peter is certainly right about the huge & growing demand for data
repositories.  Forgive the cut & paste below, but for US based among us at
least, the NSF has just put out a
call<http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12499/nsf12499.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_179>for
small ($250K) and medium ($1M) grants to do something like this.  In
my
opinion it's not a bad checklist.  Of course as this thread has already
highlighted, half of the battle is just knowing what's already out there
and getting it adopted...


   1. * E-science collaboration environments (ESCE).* A comprehensive "big
   data" cyberinfrastructure is necessary to allow for broad communities of
   scientists and engineers to have access to diverse data and to the best and
   most usable inferential and visualization tools. Potential research areas
   include, but are not limited to:


   - Novel collaboration environments for diverse and distant groups of
   researchers and students to coordinate their work (e.g., through data and
   model sharing and software reuse, tele-presence capability, crowdsourcing,
   social networking capabilities) with greatly enhanced efficiency and
   effectiveness for the scientific collaboration;
   - Automation of the discovery process (e.g., through machine learning,
   data mining, and automated inference);
   - Automated modeling tools to provide multiple views of massive data
   sets that are useful to diverse disciplines;
   - New data curation techniques for managing the complex and large flow
   of scientific output in a multitude of disciplines;
   - Development of systems and processes that efficiently incorporate
   autonomous anomaly and trend detection with human interaction, response,
   and reaction;
   - End-to-end systems that facilitate the development and use of
   scientific workflows and new applications;
   - New approaches to development of research questions that might be
   pursued in light of access to heterogeneous, diverse, big data;
   - New models for cross-disciplinary information fusion and knowledge
   sharing;
   - New approaches for effective data, knowledge, and model sharing and
   collaboration across multiple domains and disciplines;
   - Securing access to data using innovative techniques to prevent
   excessive replication of data to external entities;
   - Providing secure and controlled role-based access to centrally managed
   data environments;
   - Remote operation, scheduling, and real-time access to distant
   instruments and data resources;
   - Protection of privacy and maintenance of security in aggregated
   personal and proprietary data (e.g., de-identification);
   - Generation of aggregated or summarized data sets for sharing and
   analyses across jurisdictional and other end user boundaries; and
   - E-publishing tools that provide unique access, learning, and
   development opportunities.



On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:
>
>> On 2 April 2012 23:21, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche at pobox.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Jessy Kate Schingler Mon, 2 Apr 2012 11:23:52 -0700 (rearranged)
>> >> is there a reason people find ckan/thedatahub insufficient for data
>> >> management needs?
>>
>
> I am really keen we look at this oportunity. There is a huge and growing
> demand for scientific data repositories and I'd like to see if CKAN/DataHub
> can meet this. There has to be an Open offering so the OKF is the natural
> place - who else?
>
> So maybe we need a brainstorming day to work out what the problems are,
> what we can offer and then - if they click - whether we can sell the idea
> to receptive funders (RCUK, Wellcome - EBI, etc.)
>
> FWIW I am giving a plenary at Rome next week on "Open Infrastructure for
> Open Science" and if we had a clear position I could advertise it.
>
> P.
>
>
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