Program and Research Updates Spring 2008 PDES, Inc. Offsite Mark Conrad Archives Specialist ERA Research Division

ERA Research Updates ERA Lab at Allegany Ballistics Laboratory Up and Running First DREN Connection in WV Only Currently Registered AccessGrid Node in WV Co-located with the Navy’s Future Virtual Engineering Center

ERA Lab at Allegany Ballistics Laboratory Up and Running

First DREN Connection in WV

Only Currently Registered AccessGrid Node in WV

Co-located with the Navy’s Future Virtual Engineering Center

National Coordination Office for Networking Information Technology Research and Development (NCO/NITRD)

FY 2009 NITRD Supplement to the President's Budget http://www.nitrd.gov/pubs/2009supplement/index.htm Released February 2008 President’s Strategic Priorities for Networking and IT R&D $3.5 Billion

Released February 2008

President’s Strategic Priorities for Networking and IT R&D

$3.5 Billion

FY 2009 NITRD Budget Overview: Some Highlights Human-Computer Interaction and Information Management Needs Include: Effective stewardship of science and engineering data Information infrastructure New approaches, technologies, and tools for long-term preservation, curation, sustainability, accessibility, and survivability of significant electronic data Information standards Data interoperability and integration of distributed data; usability; provenance and integrity (metadata) Focused data structure research for complex digital objects

Human-Computer Interaction and Information Management Needs Include:

Effective stewardship of science and engineering data

Information infrastructure

New approaches, technologies, and tools for long-term preservation, curation, sustainability, accessibility, and survivability of significant electronic data

Information standards

Data interoperability and integration of distributed data; usability; provenance and integrity (metadata)

Focused data structure research for complex digital objects

FY 2009 NITRD Budget Overview: Some Highlights Human-Computer Interaction and Information Management Needs Include: NARA as Lead Agency Proposed workshop targeting architectures, technologies, and information management processes needed to optimize “full data path” processing of ultra-large data and electronic records collections Systems architectures to support optimizable and scalable ingest for processing petascale electronic records; data management architectures

Human-Computer Interaction and Information Management Needs Include:

NARA as Lead Agency

Proposed workshop targeting architectures, technologies, and information management processes needed to optimize “full data path” processing of ultra-large data and electronic records collections

Systems architectures to support optimizable and scalable ingest for processing petascale electronic records; data management architectures

Some of NARA’s Research Partners National Center for Supercomputing Applications NIST … and many other Federal Agencies and their Records Officers National Science Foundation San Diego Supercomputer Center Army Research Laboratory

ERA Research Collaboration Updates STEP-based Ship-wide Unclassified Model 5 year Research Initiative NAVSEA is Executive Agency NAVAIR and DLA also Participating Exploring Use of Data Grid for Data Sharing

STEP-based Ship-wide Unclassified Model

5 year Research Initiative

NAVSEA is Executive Agency

NAVAIR and DLA also Participating

Exploring Use of Data Grid for Data Sharing

ERA Research Collaboration Updates West Virginia University/NETL Building LTDR Virtual Lab and Testbed Gather Cost and Version Data for 10-year Lifecycle Simulate Retrieval of Data through 10 Years of CAD Software Compare Costs with Maintaining STEP data STEP Semantic Research

West Virginia University/NETL

Building LTDR Virtual Lab and Testbed

Gather Cost and Version Data for 10-year Lifecycle

Simulate Retrieval of Data through 10 Years of CAD Software

Compare Costs with Maintaining STEP data

STEP Semantic Research

ERA Research Collaboration Updates MOIMS-RAC WG Develop ISO Standard for Digital Repository Audit and Certification ISO TC20/SC13 (CCSDS) Based on OAIS Reference Model (ISO 14721) Based on work by RLG/NARA and NESTOR Project http://wiki.digitalrepositoryauditandcertification.org/bin/view/Main/WebHome

MOIMS-RAC WG

Develop ISO Standard for Digital Repository Audit and Certification

ISO TC20/SC13 (CCSDS)

Based on OAIS Reference Model (ISO 14721)

Based on work by RLG/NARA and NESTOR Project

http://wiki.digitalrepositoryauditandcertification.org/bin/view/Main/WebHome

ERA Research Collaboration Updates NNSA Collaboration on First Rollout of Operational ERA

NNSA

Collaboration on First Rollout of Operational ERA

ERA Research Collaboration Updates Data Intensive Cyber Environments Group intelligent Rule Oriented Data System (iRODS) Make Policies/Rules Explicit http://irods.sdsc.edu

Data Intensive Cyber Environments Group

intelligent Rule Oriented Data System (iRODS)

Make Policies/Rules Explicit

http://irods.sdsc.edu

ERA Research Collaboration Updates A Sample of Continuing Collaborations ARL – High Confidence Computing NCSA – Storage and Retrieval of 3D+Time Data Representations NSF – Cyberinfrastructure Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center - SLASH

A Sample of Continuing Collaborations

ARL – High Confidence Computing

NCSA – Storage and Retrieval of 3D+Time Data Representations

NSF – Cyberinfrastructure

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center - SLASH

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