DataNet Federation Consortium

The DataNet Federation Consortium infrastructure enables collaboration environments for multi-disciplinary science and engineering initiatives. Within each initiative, data management infrastructure organizes data into sharable collections. The collections are organized into national data infrastructure through federation of the independent data grids. Collaborations are sustained through a community-based collection life cycle for science and engineering data.

RENCI was responsible for federating the consortium’s diverse data repositories to enable cross-disciplinary research. Federating data involves building a common name space for identifying files, providing a context for file meaning and relevance, providing a common access interface, and developing management policies across the distributed collection.

• CyVerse
• Drexel University
• Odum Institute for Research in Social Science
• Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center
• University of California San Diego
• University of Virginia

• National Science Foundation