What is the National Data Platform ?
The National Data Platform, or NDP, is a federated and extensible data ecosystem to promote collaboration, innovation, and use of data on top of existing cyberinfrastructure capabilities.
NDP is envisioned as a broad data ecosystem to enable data-enabled and AI-integrated research and education workflows.
NDP is aimed to:
- Facilitate data registration, discovery and usage through a centralized hub
- Enhance distributed CI capabilities through distributed endpoints
- Cultivate resources for classroom education and data challenges
- Assist research and learning through personalized workspaces
Open Access
With the development of NDP, we aim to address the following questions:
Foundational Abstractions and Services
- What are the foundational data abstractions and services that can serve as multipurpose and expandable building blocks for data-driven and AI-integrated application patterns?
- How can everyone effectively access and utilize these abstractions and services?
Open CI Use
- How can such foundational data abstractions and services be developed and deployed on top of existing production-ready CI, including storage and the edge-to-HPC continuum?
- How can we ensure data access and use across distributed CI?
Needs, Requirements and Challenges
- What are the requirements and challenges for governance of open science, open data and open CI?