This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program totaling $1,540,483 will support the development of a Virtual Data Collaboratory. The Collaboratory will create a federated data system accessible across institutional and geographic boundaries to foster interdisciplinary research collaboration. Seven universities in New Jersey and Pennsylvania will directly participate in constructing storage and data services infrastructure...
The $499,998 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports the University of Chicago's "A SECURE HUB FOR ACCESS, RELIABILITY, AND EXCHANGE OF DATA (SHARED)" project. The SHARED platform serves as a centralized data management resource to facilitate data-driven research and collaboration across diverse disciplines, including cosmology, particle physics, linguistics, and psychology. The...
The National Information Standards Organization, Partnership for Academic Library Collaboration & Innovation, and Lehigh University Libraries, with 27 partner organizations, will develop the Collaborative Collections Lifecycle Project (CCLP) through a $1.2 million project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The three-year grant will support the creation of best practices, standards improvements, and prototype middleware infrastructure to advance cooperative collection...
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), in collaboration with Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Minnesota, Duke University, and an advisory board, received a $741,921 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the National Leadership Grants (CFDA 45.312) program. The grant funds critical research on the economics of investments required for public access to research data. The project aims to conduct surveys and interviews with...
This $3,594,788 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, with a performance period from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2028, will support the development of Globus Search. Globus Search is a new capability integrated into the widely used Globus platform that will enable researchers to easily discover data regardless of location, group data into "virtual" collections, and act on these virtual...
This $699,954 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the establishment of a comprehensive data storage infrastructure, called the UC Santa Barbara Data Storage Harnessing Open Environment (DATASHORE), at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). The DATASHORE system provides over 10 petabytes of raw storage capacity, delivering more than 5 petabytes of usable storage for...
The Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI), in partnership with the Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc. (PALCI), received a $270,486 two-year Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the National Leadership Grants program (CFDA 45.312). The funding will support enhancements to Hyku, an open-source multi-tenant repository platform system suitable for access to diverse materials. This will build upon previous work to improve the...
This $629,790 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program supports the establishment of "The MSU Data Hub" at Michigan State University (MSU). The Data Hub is a centralized platform for MSU researchers to store, share, and archive their research data, enabling data-intensive research and education across scientific disciplines. The system is designed to address the growing challenge of managing...
This $145,212 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will enhance the infrastructure and capabilities of Databrary, a large-scale repository for research videos in the behavioral sciences. The funding will enable Databrary, housed at New York University, to update its software and tools to accelerate the reuse of shared video data by researchers. Key improvements include making it easier to find and...
This $266,986 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will support the development of educational modules and a content hub for hands-on, exploration-based learning in data systems. The University of Chicago will create a collection of "courselets" - scaffolded educational modules executable on open cloud testbeds - covering topics such as data acquisition, networking, storage, machine learning, analytics, and...