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Nsf Seeks Cyber Infrastructure to Make Sense of Scientific Data
The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently called on University of North Carolina (UNC)-Chapel Hill researchers to develop a national data infrastructure that will help scientists and researchers manage data, share information, and drive innovation in the scientific community.
The project, called the Cyberinfrastructure for the 21st Century Initiative, will support collaborative multidisciplinary research and will democratize access to information among researchers and citizen scientists, according to NSF's Rob Pennington.
"It means researchers on the cutting edge have access to new, more extensive, multidisciplinary datasets that will enable breakthroughs and the creation of new fields of science and engineering," he says.
The national data infrastructure will provide a platform to start working meticulously on more long-term rugged solutions or robust solutions, according to UNC-Chapel Hill researcher Stan Ahalt. Many federal agencies are already using the integrated Rule Oriented Data System to implement a data management infrastructure.
"The long-term goal of this effort is to improve the ability to do research," says UNC-Chapel Hill researcher Reagan Moore.
The new infrastructure could mean more than just managing data or sharing information with different research communities, Ahalt notes.
From Federal Computer Week
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