Partners

DataONE provides the distributed framework (which is comprised of Member and Coordinating Nodes as illustrated in the figure below), sound management, and robust technologies that enable long-term preservation of diverse multi-scale, multi-discipline, and multi-national observational data. DataONE initially emphasizes observational data collected by biological (genome to ecosystem) and environmental (atmospheric, ecological, hydrological, and oceanographic) scientists, research networks, and environmental observatories. DataONE will be domain agnostic, progressively expanding to broader domains and building on infrastructure and interoperability with DataNet partners.

DataONE Member Nodes form a robust, distributed network via coordinating services provided by a set of Coordinating Nodes (i.e., Oak Ridge Campus, UC-Santa Barbara, and University of New Mexico) arranged in a high-availability configuration. Scientists and citizens interact with Member Nodes (e.g., South African Environmental Observation Network, California Digital Library, USGS National Biological Information Infrastructure) through software tools that utilize standardized interfaces. This structure supports many different usage scenarios, such as data and metadata management and replication (e.g., using Morpho [black arrows] or the Mercury system [orange arrows]), as well as analysis and modeling (e.g., using commercial software like Matlab [light green arrows] and open-source scientific workflow systems like Kepler [blue arrows]). Coordinating Nodes perform many basic indexing and data replication services to ensure data availability and preservation (e.g., node registration [purple arrow] and monitoring via heartbeat services (red arrow]).