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Ian Robertson is unable to attend the June 12-13
meeting in Boulder, CO. Dane Morgan (ddmorgan@wisc.edu) will
represent the Univ of WI-Madison. Please include Dane in your correspondence. Thank you, Peggy -------- Original Message --------
From:
owner-consortium@nationaldataservice.org
[mailto:owner-consortium@nationaldataservice.org] On
Behalf Of Seidel, Edward Folks, I
want to thank you all for contributing to the remarkable
National Data Service (NDS) proposal that we pulled together
over the last few weeks. I really appreciate how everyone on
this team contributed to the final proposal that we
submitted last week. The
fact that literally everyone we spoke to about these
activities agreed to join us (over 25 partners around the
world) confirmed our feeling that we have touched on
something that is seriously needed. The idea of creating an
“NDS Consortium” emerged as a result of the enthusiasm we
encountered as we were initially developing the proposal
itself. The consortium presently links together NSF DataNet
(DataOne, Data Conservancy, SEAD), DIBBs (Brown Dog,
DataScope) and other major community projects (e.g. ICPSR,
ADS); MREFCs (LIGO, LSST, IceCube, NEON), universities,
libraries, and national organizations and services that
connect them (Internet2, XSEDE, Globus); publishers (e.g.
APS, Science, Nature, Elsevier, PLOS, JORS); and important
international efforts (e.g., EUDAT, OpenAire, RDA). Your
support in establishing this consortium of like-minded
partners became a critical element of our proposal to
develop an open framework that supports an integrated set of
national-scale services. This idea is at the core of our
collaboration, which goes beyond the NSF proposal itself. To
advance our common NDS vision, I would like to invite you to
participate in our inaugural NDS Consortium Workshop to be
held June 12-13 in Boulder, CO (with kind assistance from CU
Boulder, NCAR, and NEON). This will be our first
opportunity to come together and further refine our thoughts
and ideas about an open framework that will revolutionize
how we share data. We recognize that this is quite soon
during a busy time of year, but we hope you can save this
time in your schedule. We will be distributing more details
about the workshop agenda and meeting location soon. In the
meantime, we have established an initial website that we
plan to develop further to help draw attention to our joint
efforts (http://nationaldataservice.org) Thank
you again for your extraordinary efforts in helping to
define NDS and we are looking forward to working with all
you on the National Data Service. Best, Ed
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