Presentation at the Department of Health and Human Services October 17, 2014 to introduce other agencies outside of NIH the development of the Commons concept.

1. The Commons
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2. Motivation

3. What Is The Commons
 Nothing fundamentally new
 Defined differently by different folks
 A concept that will be stood up in conjunction with the
$32m associated with BD2K
 A collection of physical compute and storage
resources – public/private/hybrid clouds, NPC,
institutional etc.
 Agreement to abide by the principles of the
Commons
 An agile environment that will be evaluated as small
steps are made
 An environment subject to additional BD2K resources
(drawn from a total $650M) through 2020

4. What are the Commons Principles
 Defined by the community!
 Phase I (1-2 years)
– ACL’s but an agreement to share (clinical and basic data)
– Usage by NIH intramural and BD2K participants
– First applications defined
 Phase II (2-4 years)
– Research object identifier scheme defined
– First phase of findability implemented
– Broader user base, API’s appearing
 Phase III (3+ years)
– Value metrics in place
– Broader adoption

5. Business Model

6. Immediate
 Cloud providers and academia agreed to provide
resources to stand up the Commons
 Accessible starting Nov 3, 2014 at the time of the first
BD2K Workshop
 First shared content by end of 2014

7. Metrics of Success
 Measurable cost savings
 Evidence of discovery
 Measurable evidence that the rate of that discovery
has accelerated

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9. One View of the Commons
Data
The Long Tail
Core Facilities/HS Centers
Clinical /Patient
The Why:
Data Sharing Plans
The How:
NIH Knowledge
The
Government
Commons
Data
Discovery
Index
The End Game:
Scientific
Discovery
Usability
Quality
Security/
Privacy
Sustainable
Storage
Awardees
Private
Sector Metrics/
Standards
Rest of
Academia
Software Standards
Index
BD2K
Centers
Cloud, Research Objects,
Business Models

10. One View of the Commons
Data
The Long Tail
Core Facilities/HS Centers
Clinical /Patient
The Why:
Data Sharing Plans
The How:
NIH Knowledge
The
Government
Commons
Data
Discovery
Index
The End Game:
Scientific
Discovery
Usability
Quality
Security/
Privacy
Sustainable
Storage
Awardees
Private
Sector Metrics/
Standards
Rest of
Academia
Software Standards
Index
BD2K
Centers
Cloud, Research Objects,
Business Models