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March 29, 2012 by Gary Price

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

March 29, 2012 by Gary Price

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)

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About Gary Price

Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.

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