A Data Consortium: Coming Together Around Data

如果得到正确的认识，数据洪流将成为新科学发现的催化剂，推动气候和社会生态相互作用等重大挑战问题的进展。虽然美国国家科学基金会（National Science Foundation）等联邦机构在数据密集型科学的存储库、基础设施和工具方面进行了非常成功的投资，但投资数据解决方案并不等同于投资高性能计算资源，因为与通用计算设施不同，通用计算设施可以与用途分离，但很难将数据与其语义分离，因此通用解决方案只能解决部分问题。这只是一小部分。认识到可以通过更强的集成的努力被实现的机会，NSF正在鼓励通往协调的努力的道路，结果满足为国家和国际上的概念、协议和标准的互操作性、协调而努力的更广泛的选区的需要。这个建议是朝着建立一个对从事第四范式研究和教育的更广泛的社区具有持久和重大影响的组织迈出的一小步，但却是根本性的下一步。

If properly realized, the data deluge will be a catalyst for new scientific discovery that fuels advances in grand challenge questions such as climate and social-ecological interactions. While federal agencies such as the National Science Foundation have invested very successfully in repositories, infrastructure, and tools for data-intensive science, investing in data solutions is not the same as investing in high performance computing resources because unlike general purpose compute facilities where the facility can be separated from the use, it is difficult to separate data from its semantics, so general purpose solutions only address part of the problem, and a small part at that. Recognizing the opportunities that could be realized through stronger integrated efforts, NSF is encouraging a path towards coordinated efforts that result in satisfying the needs of a broader constituency that strives for interoperability, harmonization of concepts, protocols, and standards nationally and internationally. This proposal is a small but fundamental next step towards building an organization with lasting and significant impact on the broader community engaged in 4th paradigm research and education.