Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and partners have launched DataONE (http://dataone.org), a global data access and preservation network projected to make vast amounts of information related to environmental research readily available. The network, which has received a $20 million grant through the National Science Foundation DataNet programme, will also receive $700,000 over five years.
With this effort, universities and government agencies are coming together to address the growing need for organising and providing large amounts of highly diverse and interrelated but often incompatible scientific data. The resulting computing and processing cyber infrastructure will be made permanently available for use by the broader international science communities. Studies will range from research that sheds light on fundamental environmental processes to identifying environmental problems and potential solutions.
DataONE is led by the University of New Mexico and includes partner organisations across the US, Europe, Africa, South America, Asia and Australia. In East Tennessee, others participating in DataONE are the University of Tennessee and the US Geological Survey in Oak Ridge, which represents the National Biological Information Infrastructure, a key partner in DataONE.
It is expected that DataONE will ultimately provide a way to allow scientists from many disciplines to collaborate on important environmental scientific challenges. The DataONE team will study how a vast digital data network can provide secure and permanent access into the future and encourage scientists to share their data. It will help determine data and data citation standards as well as create the tools for organising, managing and publishing data.
As one of five DataNet collaborations envisioned by the NSF, DataONE will build a set of geographically distributed coordinating nodes that play an important role in facilitating all of the activities of the global network. The initial three coordinating nodes will be at the University of Tennessee/ORNL, the University of New Mexico and University of California Santa Barbara.
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