+DataNet: An Emerging Cyberinfrastructure for Sharing, Reusing and Preserving Digital Data for Scientific Discovery and Learning

摘要

DataNet is an emerging, enabling cyberinfrastructure for open access, and long-term preservation of digital data funded by the National Science Foundation. DataNet will create unprecedented opportunities for advancing research and education in science and engineering, by creating an environment consisting of data repositories and new tools and services for sharing and reusing important digital data across disciplines. This will foster transformative, interdisciplinary scientific collaboration on a grand scale, permit scientists to build knowledge that will provide better understanding of and sustainable solutions to important scientific challenges, offer better public understanding of technological problems through openly accessible information in well articulated repositories, and provide a format for resolving the data-driven nature of scientific and technological problems of societal importance (i.e., grand challenge and other problems).