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Title: Building a Community-Focused Data Platform

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1133758· OSTI ID:1133758
 [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States). National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
  2. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  3. Stanford Univ., CA (United States)

The National Data Service (NDS) presents a broad-reaching vision of integrating discovery, publishing, and sharing of data. Metcalfe's Law states that the value of a network increases with the number of connections in the network, not the number of nodes. The NDS must develop and steward connections not only between data, as is in its vision statement, but between individuals as well. We propose that this be accomplished by explicitly developing it as a platform on which data exploration can be constructed by individual researchers.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC52-06NA25396
OSTI ID:
1133758
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-14-24204
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English