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• RDA update

• Interest group on data science summer schools in the developing world
  • Host workshops in places with limited data science training
  • Potential for use of NDS workbench as a platform
• NDS meeting
  • Discussion about what we should focus on
  • Focus on consortium
• RDA adoption project with NDS
  • Aim to facilitate RDA outputs in a technical form
• Canadian NDS workshop
  • Discussion of a framework for national data services in Canada
  • https://portagenetwork.ca/frdr-dfdr/ 
• Internet of foods conference
  • Building ontologies for food
  • Potential collaboration

• RDMI workshop

• Series of workshops 
• Summary: previous workshops there hadn't been much implementation. This time more software shown off: NDS, Globus, etc. 
• NSF engagement
• Subgroup pushing on the ideas of HTML for data, that didn't prescribe what you'd find but a common syntax could be a good start to get things moving
• Calls coming out that would likely be relevant
• In the future we should think about a position paper

• NAS Symposium - Toward an Open Science Enterprise: Focus on Stakeholders

• http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/brdi/PGA_181288
• Planning of next phase to define cyberinfrastructure 
• Updates from various people related to open science
• Takeaways
  • Many solutions presented with different levels of maturity
  • Data management plans → cost of open science in funded awards → lifespans for datasets? 
• Kenton presented use cases encountered in NDS
  • How to enable open science without impeding open science
• Funding competition possibly doesn't help these things

• Update on pilots/potential pilots
  • Einstein Toolkit pilot instance
  • Bridging Big Data/NBI data hosting pilot 
  • QMCDB

 Einstein toolkit pilot

• Request for longer term instance to support tutorial/training
• Description coming for the workshop

Bridging big data (Omaha workshop)

• Pilot with Midwest big data hub
• Host widely used bridge dataset.
• Hosting mongo DB and group developing a jupyter notebook that uses this database

QMCDB

• Mongo DB from Blue Waters run
• Researcher still interested in that data being available (it is currently down and not available)

One common theme here is that people are interested in NDS hosting databases

• In general needs to align with demonstration of NDS capabilities
• How does this fit with the repository of last resort?

Question:  what is the lifespan for a pilot project

• Upcoming workshops/conferences
  • Bridging Big Data (10/4)
  • NCSA Industry (Workbench integration with Spark)
  • SC17 (Workbench integration with HPC)
  • NDS8

NDS8 - Very tentatively looking at 2/7-9, New Mexico

NDS9 - colocate at PEARC and focus on research facilitators?  July, Pittsburg

• Update on development focus and activities