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The final report of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure which evaluates current major investments in cyberinfrastructure and its use, recommends new areas of emphasis relevant to cyberinfrastructure, and proposes an implementation plan for pursuing them. Through individual interactions with researchers, surveys, testimony, review of prior relevant reports, requests for comments, participation in workshops, and extensive deliberation, the Panel found that “a new age has dawned in scientific and engineering research, pushed by continuing progress in computing, information, and communication technology, and pulled by the expanding complexity, scope, and scale of today.s challenges. The capacity of this technology has crossed thresholds that now make possible a comprehensive “cyberinfrastructure” on which to build new types of scientific and engineering knowledge environments and organizations and to pursue research in new ways and with increased efficacy. Such environments and organizations, enabled by cyberinfrastructure, are increasingly required to address national and global priorities, such as understanding global climate change, protecting our natural environment, applying genomics-proteomics to human health, maintaining national security, mastering the world of nanotechnology, and predicting and protecting against natural and human disasters, as well as to address some of our most fundamental intellectual questions such as the formation of the universe and the fundamental character of matter. The panel recommended that NSF should establish and lead a large-scale, interagency, and internationally coordinated Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Program (ACP) to create, deploy, and apply cyberinfrastructure in ways that radically empower all scientific and engineering research and allied education. We estimate that sustained new NSF funding of $1 billion per year is needed to achieve critical mass and to leverage the coordinated co-investment from other federal agencies, universities, industry, and international sources necessary to empower a revolution.
The workshop addresses information server technologies, search technologies and directory and online services. Participants are proponents of repository interface standards for distributed indexing and searching. The report begins with a two page summary of topics and outcomes. Three technical sessions were held on Distributed Data Collection, Data Transfer Formats, and Distributed Search Architectures. Follow-on discussion was on indexing and collecting information needed for indexing. Slides, session notes, outcomes, and quotes are included. Participant and position papers are available in PDF, Postscript and Word format. Standards to support searching and metadata tags were among topics discussed.
Unidata's Thematic Real-time Environmental Distributed Data Services (THREDDS) was designed to facilitate access for researchers and academicians to distributed, archived environmental datasets. The article discusses the use of interactive data analysis and display systems, "thick" client applications, distributed sources, etc., as they relate to the THREDDS system and the status of development.
Minutes from a presentation by Dr. Walter Warnick and Vincent Dattoria, DOE/Office of Scientific and Technical Information at CENDI on October 3, 2000 in Germantown, MD. This briefing was originally presented to the PITAC Digital Library Panel on September 19, 2000. He emphasized the need for an implementation strategy for an information infrastructure for the physical sciences which would require interagency cooperation and provide a common knowledge base for comprehensive access for use and reuse of physical science information. He also discussed Distributed Explorer, a distributed search engine which has been used at OSTI to search web-based gray literature and R&D project descriptions across agencies. Documents in this network include over 100,000 technical reports that are publicly available from DTIC, NASA, EPA, and DOE. OSTI's digital library for energy science is proposed as a building block for part of the physical sciences infrastructure.
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