The NSF Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure
has recognized the emerging and evolving need for platforms that fully
integrate data and computing workflows, and is calling for research to deliver
systems that provide a full spectrum of data services and also offer a coherent
coupling with computing software. The Digital Environment to Enable Data-driven
Science (DEEDS) project has created a cross-domain, self-serve platform for
data and computing that supports the entire end-to-end research investigation
process. DEEDS offers interactive interfaces to 1) collect, manage, and explore
data, 2) define and launch tools, 3) track computational workflows, and 4) access
toolkits for ad hoc analytics. All interfaces are available from a single
dashboard so that the workflow between data and tools is smooth and intuitive.
In this paper, we describe DEEDS innovations for handling data and
computational workflows, and we present the use cases from four science domains
that defined features, services, and usability requirements for DEEDS.
Funding
National Science Foundation CIF21 DIBBs: EI: Award #1724728