Ag Data Commons Prototype - a data catalogue based on the Drupal DKAN distribution
Business and Strategy
The purpose of this track is two-fold - one angle helps you to understand the advantages of Drupal from an organizational leadership angle and the other is to highlight the great Drupal sites and projects you're working on and to show what's possible. These sessions are business focused, and will be non-technical.
The Ag Data Commons is a prototype that aims to facilitate access, dissemination and long-term stewardship for the unclassified data products of scientific research for the benefit of the broader agricultural research community as well as policy-makers, industry, and the public.
It builds on existing USDA investments including a repository of public access agricultural research articles and associated indexing system, machine-aided assignment of subject terms from an agriculture-specific thesaurus, and various domain-specific platforms that manage a fraction of the data.
The session will cover how the National Agricultural Library (ARS/USDA) built the Ag Data Commons Prototype to fullfill the need of USDA researchers to make research data publicly available, and to comply with public access mandates:
- Public Access Mandates
- Data Standards
- Requirements
- Choice of technology
- Integration of metadata schemas and controlled vocabularies
- Integration of non-Drupal resources
- Pitfalls and Lessons learned
- Future development