Data Sharing Directory: Standards, Tools, and Community Initiatives

The Data Sharing Directory is an open list of data sharing standards, tools, and community initiatives that aid data sharing among industry, academia, government, and nonprofits. This project was undertaken as part of the Metadata Research Center’s work on the project, “A Licensing Model and Ecosystem for Data Sharing,” (NSF #1636788), with the NSF Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub.

The Metadata Research Center (MRC) located at the College of Computing
& Informatics (CCI), Drexel University, leads and innovates metadata solutions for pressing information/data-oriented challenges. Metadata, semantics, and ontologies are vital for effectively and efficiently using and manipulating data. The MRC is committed to advancing research in these interconnected domains, formalizing metadata-driven methods to support the FAIR principles, and enabling data use across all sectors.

Project leaders and contributors: Christopher Rauch (doctoral student, lead on GitHub work), Mica Greene (MSI grad. student), Deborah Garwood (doctoral candidate), and Sam Grabus (doctoral candidate). Faculty advisors: Jane Greenberg and Mat Kelly.