NCEAS Working Groups
INTEROP: Creation of an international virtual data center for the biodiversity, ecological and environmental sciences
Project Description
Under this project we will develop new community capacity and new technologies to support the design, implementation, and deployment of a Virtual Data Center (VDC) for biodiversity, ecological and environmental data—all founded on open standards and protocols for interoperability among existing and new data centers. We will design a reliable infrastructure that enables open, stable, persistent, robust, and secure access to well-described and logically organized biodiversity, ecological and environmental data. The system will consist of a virtual distributed network of data centers that seamlessly supports discovery and user-friendly access to a broad array of data, metadata, and other digital products that are archived securely and permanently in multiple locations. Semi-annual week-long meetings of Technical Working Groups (engaging information scientists from data centers representing many diverse disciplines), a developer, and numerous students will contribute to VDC prototypes and adopting and adapting basic system interoperability standards, such as the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting from the digital library community and various scientific community data exchange standards (e.g., SEEK EarthGrid protocols, the oceanographic communities' OPeNDAP protocol, Federal Geographic Data Committee Biological Data Profile, and the web community's grid service protocols).
Principal Investigator(s)
Matthew B. Jones, William K. Michener, Kathleen K. Smith
Project Dates
Start: January 13, 2009
End: February 18, 2010
completed
Participants
- Suzanne Lorraine Allard
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- Paul Allen
- Cornell University
- John Cobb
- Bob Cook
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Duane Costa
- University of New Mexico
- Patricia Cruse
- University of California, Office of the President
- Roger Dahl
- University of New Mexico
- Michael Daigle
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Timothy DiLauro
- Johns Hopkins University
- Mike Frame
- US Geological Survey (USGS)
- Jim Green
- Unknown
- Stephanie E. Hampton
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Jeff Horsburgh
- Utah State University
- Vivian B. Hutchison
- US Geological Survey (USGS) Western Fisheries Research Center
- Matthew B. Jones
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Steve Kelling
- Cornell University
- Carl Lagoze
- Cornell University
- Hilmar Lapp
- Duke University
- William K. Michener
- University of New Mexico
- Nick Outin
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Giri Palanisamy
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Robert Sandusky
- University of Illinois
- Ryan Scherle
- Duke University
- Mark Servilla
- University of New Mexico
- Kathleen K. Smith
- Duke University
- Carol Tenopir
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- David A. Vieglais
- University of Kansas
- Todd Vision
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Robert P. Waltz
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- Bruce Wilson
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory