This recently came out about Materials and Big Data: http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=18760 Rob On 10/28/14, 2:27 PM, "Matthew Turk" <matthewturk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Hi Ray, > >On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Ray Plante <rplante@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Tue, 28 Oct 2014, Arthur Smith wrote: >> >>> If NDS is to be the Interop (or NSFNet) to RDA's IETF, then it seems >>>to me >>> like the focus of NDS labs should be implementing and highlighting >>> interoperability of implementations of data standards. For example we >>>heard >>> about the data type registry: >> >> I would definately like to see NDS Labs be a platform for RDA ideas. >> I hope it can also be a lab for cultivating additional RDS WG >> activity, both building on the currently deliveries and inspiring new >> ones. >> >>> But I think we should keep the focus on the data side, not just on >>>putting >>> together another cloud computing environment. >> >> It's been proposed that NDS Labs respond to requests for projects, so >> I would hope that there would be people from the RDA community >> inspired to come forward. >> >> That said, the NDS Labs proposal is essentially one of storage >> and compute resources and support to operate it. Your suggestion >> (puting a registry in a docker container) helps us understand whether >> the proposed environment can serve that role. > >I think we should go way beyond just storage and compute -- it needs >to be tied into strong community interaction, otherwise we are simply >Amazon EC2 (which, I note, has lots of public datasets already) or the >Open Science Data Cloud. I think having strong community buy-in, >emphasizing interoperability between applications, and so on needs to >be a component. > >Can you say more about the "NDS labs proposal"? > >> >> cheers, >> Ray >> >
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