Plan for Action (NSF)

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Plan for Action (NSF)

• Coherent Organizational Framework
• Diversity of approaches
• Communities of practice
• Community proxy roles of collections
• Dynamic and evolving system
• Flexible Technological Architecture
• Layered capabilities
• Metadata
• Data analysis and visualization tools
• Promoting and use of stable standards
• Coherent Data Policies
• Transparent policy frameworks
• Data management plans
• Interagency coordination
• International cooperation

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Characteristics of a 5D World

• Time and place are no longer barriers to
  participation and interaction
• Access is open to specialists and non-specialists
  alike
• Information is the primary driver for progress
• Possibilities expanded by new capabilities,
  resources, mechanisms

The world is flat -Thomas Friedman The flat
world is expanding - Anonymous More room for
innovation (Emergence) New spaces for learning
and discovery (Web is Expanding) Expanded
opportunities for collaboration and interaction
Greater capabilities for research and education
NSF Goals To catalyze the development of a system
of science and engineering data collections that
is open, extensible and evolvable. To support
development of a new generation of tools and
services facilitating data acquisition, mining,
integration, analysis, and visualization
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For SEAS not DataFed

• Here are a few quotes resonate with my thinking 
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• Charles Vest, MIT  on the idea of  Meta
  University  "What we are observing is the early
  emergence of a Meta University -- a transcendent,
  accessible, empowering, dynamic
  community-constructed framework of open material
  and platforms on which much of higher education
  worldwide can be constructed or enhanced." 
• Our School could be active member of the
  community that constructs the frameworks and
  populates it with open materials and platforms..
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• NSF Strategic Plan for Data, Data Analysis, and
  Visualization a vision in which science and
  engineering digital data are routinely deposited
  in well-documented form, are regularly and easily
  consulted and analyzed by specialists and
  non-specialists alike, are openly accessible
  while suitably protected, and are reliably
  preserved.
• In atmospheric chemistry and pollution, we are
  already a major center for openly accessible
  global-scale information resources. Together, we
  could do and show much more.