NSF DataNet Program Update

Dharma Akmon, SEADAmber E. Budden, DataONEDavid Van Riper, TerraPop

Mary Whitton, Datanet Federation ConsortiumRDAP14 March 27, 2014

NSF DataNet Program Goal

To create a set of "exemplar national and global data research infrastructure organizations (dubbed DataNet Partners) that provide unique opportunities to communities of researchers to advance science and/or engineering research and learning"

Round 1 Awards (2008)

Round 2 Awards (2011)

SEAD: Sustainable Environment-Actionable Data

Lightweight data services designed to meet the needs of sustainability science

• support the “long tail”• enable active and social curation• provide integrated lifecycle support for data

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SEAD Is An Active Content Repository

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SEAD Is A Tool for Community Exploration

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SEAD Is a Curation and Preservation Service

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Current SEAD Developments

• First end-user workshop in early April

• Conference workshops and demos• JASM, ESA

• Interface redesign

• Refinement of research object lifecycle models and use cases

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SEAD Team

Margaret Hedstrom (PI)James Myers (co-PI)Nathan AdamsDharma AkmonGeorge AlterCarl LagozeTodd StuartMarietta Van Buhler

Praveen Kumar (co-PI)Mostafa ElagRob KooperJong LeeLuigi MariniBeth Sandore NamachchivayaBrian Sawicki

Beth Plale (co-PI)Katy BornerKavitha ChandrasekarInna KouperRobert LightRobert H. McDonald

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Keep In Touch with SEAD!

Website: http://sead-data.net/

Twitter: @SEADdatanet

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SEADDataNet

Email me: Dharma Akmon, Education and Outreach dharmrae@umich.edu @dharmaakmon

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