This area provides documents and links related to the activities of the NDS Technical Advisory Committee.

Members

See the official list on the NDS website

Goals and Charter

Goals:

• Provide Feedback on NDS Development
  • Review the Work Breakdown Structure
• Oversee use of NDS Labs
  • Participate in the review and approval of NDS Pilot proposals
  • Review progress of Pilots
• Recommend establishment of NDS Task Forces

Communications

• Mailing List:  tac@nationaldataservice.org (archive)
• Slack channel

NDS Pilot Projects

Pilot Processes

Process for establishing proposals  - http://www.nationaldataservice.org/projects/pilots.html

Review Procedures (under development)

Current Pilots

While not all of these are considered "official" pilots", the Collaborative Projects and Pilot Summary Page lists:

• Materials Data Facility (PI: Ian Foster)

• NASA Access to Terra Data Fusion (PI: Larry Di Girolamo)

• NIH BD2K KnowEng (PI: Saurabh Sinha)

• NSF DIBBs Whole Tale (PI: Bertram Ludaesher)

• NIST IN-CORE (PI: John van de Lindt)

• NSF Midwest BigData Hub (PI: Ed Seidel)

• iSEE Plants in silico (PI: Amy Marshall-Colon)

• ARPAE TERRA (PI: David LeBauer)

Currently considered "Official" Pilots:

• Materials Data Facility (PI: Ian Foster)
• NIH BD2K KnowEng (PI: Saurabh Sinha)
• Materials Resource Registry (+ MGI Code, Materials Data Curator) (PI: Sharief Youssef)

• Bringing Visibility to Food Security Data Results: Harvests of PRAGMA and RDA (PI: Beth Plale)
  

• SBGrid (PI: Merce Crosas)

• Universal Accessible Data Publications (PI: Jim Myers)

• Educational Workbench for Data Curation (PI: Carole Palmer)

Pilots under consideration (or of unknown status):

• Renaissance Simulations (PI: Mike Norman) 
• Data access alliance (PI: ??) - Christine Kirkpatrick: is this the Datacite thing?, Kenton McHenry: not sure where this one came from.
• AWESOME: Big Data Analytics Platform for Social Media (PI: Amarnath Gupta)
• Rutgers Pilot on Collaborative Software Development (PI: Manish Parashar)
• UND BD Summit Hackathon (PI: Aaron Bergstrom)
• IASSIST 2016 - Odum Workshop (PI: John Crabtree)
• Phenome 2017 Workshop (PI: David LeBauer)
• DataNet SEAD Deployment (PI: Margaret Hedstrom)
• SEAD Curbee (PI: Beth Plale)
• CARMA data (PI: Athol Kemball)
• EarthCube Workbench (PI: Lindsay Powers, Rebecca Koskela)
• ThinkChicago Hackathon Workbench (PI: ??)
• IUPAC NMR (PI: Stuart Chalk and Leah McEwan)
• Nebraska Bridge Inspections & Maintenance (PI: Robin Gandhi)
• ESIP Pilot Platform (PI: Erin Robinson & Anne Burgess)
• Stakeholder Alignment Collaborative (PI: Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld)
• RDA-US/NDS Adoption Pilot (PI: Christine Kirkpatrick & RDA-US ED, TBD)
• SLideRULE: SLASH2 support for Integrated Rule-Oriented Data System (iRODS) - (PI: Derek Simmel)

Dormant Projects and Pilots:

• Quantum Monte Carlo Database (QMC-DB) (PI: Elif Ertekin)

Meetings and Notes

Monthly Telecons