The National Data Service Consortium (NDSC) aims to enhance scientific reproduciblity in the Information Age by implementing interfaces, protocols, and standards within data relevant cyberinfrastructure tools/services towards allowing for an overall infrastructure enabling scientists to more easily search for, publish, link, and overall reuse digital data.  Specifically, NDSC has as its mission:

... advancing the frontiers of discovery and innovation by enabling open sharing of data and increase collaboration within and across fields and disciplines. Success will be achieved through coordinated and concentrated efforts, developing an open environment of federated, interoperable, and integrated national-scale services.

...well-defined interfaces that allow for the development of modular, interoperable, and extensible services and tools – which NDS is committed to help assemble, coordinate or pioneer in collaboration with others.

One might think of this in terms of the modern internet, which had its roots in the ARPANET effort ...

... taking into account additional components addressing "Big Data" challenges within the internet, a sort of DATANET:

The above is illustrative and not a comprehensive list of services.  There are a variety of components being actively explored and developed, some building on top of others, some not, some interacting with others, some not.  In essence, just like with every Internet component there are a variety of options for each Datanet component.  Unlike the internet components, however, these selections matter - they effect the user and limit what other components might be utilized/deployed.

For example, in the context of internet technologies, consider a web admin deploying a web server: the admin will pick one server over another for one reason or another, e.g. the open source Apache HTTP server, NGINX, or the commercial Microsoft IIS server.  IDEALLY this decision will not affect users, because their browser, also a choice to be made this time on the users end, will work either way.  This is the case because web servers and browsers implement similar protocols/standards (e.g. HTTP, HTML, ...). 

In collaboration with groups like the Research Data Alliance (RDA) we aim to also achieve this standardization among the actively developed data components being constructed today, allowing them to be more readily put together, and allowing scientists as well as others to more easily:

Overall this will accelerate and enable novel science, allowing stories such as these to become the norm rather than the exception:

... and in terms of the general public and broader impact, perhaps seeding a new kind of internet all can take advantage of: