Roundup: U.S. Government Rolls Out a Number of "Big Data" Initiatives, Projects

Many of these projects and so many others will need data curators, archivists, and others to help organize the massive data sets.

A bunch of announcements and a discussion are taking place now (2:30pm). Live/Archive stream here.

Overview from the Office of Science and Technology Policy

• Big Data is a Big Deal

• See Also: Big Data Fact Sheet (14 pages; PDF)
  Includes info about big data projects from the Dept. of Homeland Security, Dept. of Veterans Affairs, Dept. of Health and Human Services, NARA, NASA, and others.
  

Department of Defense

• DARPA Calls for Advances in “Big Data” to Help the Warfighter
  

• DARPA BAA (Broad Agency Announcement): XDATA (45 pages; PDF)

• The Department’s Big Bet: Big Data (2 pages; PDF)

National Institutes of Health

• 1000 Genomes Project data available on Amazon Cloud

National Science Foundation

• NSF Leads Federal Efforts In Big Data

• NSF Solicitation: Core Techniques and Technologies for Advancing Big Data Science & Engineering (BIGDATA) 
  • A PDF version of the document (17 pages) is also available.

Department of Energy

• Secretary Chu Announces New Institute to Help Scientists Improve Massive Data Set Research on DOE Supercomputers

U.S. Geological Survey

• Big Data a Big Deal

More Material

• Berkeley Lab-led Institute to Help Solve Data-intensive Science Challenges
  (via Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)