CyVerse Data Commons

The Data Commons (DC) is a new service offered by CyVerse to support its vision of transforming science through data-driven discovery. The DC strives to build a space where data can live as a searchable, discoverable, and reusable resource. DC development builds on foundational CyVerse infrastructure such as the Data Store, APIs, and user interfaces like the Discovery Environment (DE), while expanding into new areas such as metadata and ontologies, data publication, and federation with external collaborators and repositories. Key components of the Data Commons are the data portal at http://datacommons.cyverse.org/, and newer functions within the DE such as metadata templates, permanent identifier requests, data submissions to NCBI, and a Projects Interface (under development). A key asset of the CyVerse DC is its co-location with CyVerse computational resources, which facilitates data re-use. This presentation will introduce you to features of the Data Commons that are available now and provide a preview of some features under development, with an eye toward how those features can support interoperability of crop phenotype data.