GDEX democratizes data access through adherence to FAIR principles, a shared infrastructure integrated with
NSF NCAR HPC (Casper and Derecho), national-scale
data and
compute services, standardized formats, and metadata-rich infrastructure. Creating analysis-ready datasets prepares NSF NCAR for AI/ML growth, standard data models, and interoperable APIs that will enable faster, cross-domain insights.
GDEX is a platform built for collaborative growth, designed and created by a united team from NSF NCAR's Computational and Information Systems Lab (CISL), for everyone to share data and models in order to power discovery, connection, and collaboration.
By any count, this has been a tremendous milestone, with
960 dataset collections transferred, approximately
20 staff members directly involved,
9 petabyes of data migrated, and
500 support tickets transitioned from DASH Help to the new
Research Data Help Desk.
What's next? Your input will shape where GDEX goes next! The team is actively building improved tools, search, integration with AI resources, New Science Gateway(s), and additional curated datasets that you can request.
Interested? Here's how you can help: Try it out and tell us what you need. Your feedback drives the next round of features and capabilities. Also, share your data to upload into this collaborative platform to make it discoverable across the community.
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Shira Feldman
Writer/Editor II, CISL
UCAR, UCP and NSF NCAR
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