'Brown dog' project at Maryland's iSchool develops cloud services for un-curated big data

摘要

Institutions of all types - government agencies, research centers, corporations and cultural heritage institutions - are dealing with a deluge of data, leaving a wealth of knowledge trapped in legacy file formats that are no longer accessible. Researchers at the University of Maryland's College of Information Studies, Maryland's iSchool, have teamed up with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to combat this problem by providing scalable infrastructure services in the cloud that re-open existing big data collections for appraisal, analysis and reuse.