The NEEScentral Data Repository: A Framework for Data Collaboration in Earthquake Engineering

Abstract eng:
The NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center (NEESit) has developed a central data repository (NEEScentral) to capture important reservoirs of data and expose them to the community where their useful lifetime can be extended. The NEEScentral Data Repository provides a centralized location for researchers to securely organize, store, and share data and metadata in a nonproprietary format that can be used in data manipulation and visualization tools. NEEScentral supports the NEES Data Model, which defines the structure by which NEES experiment data is organized. Using NEEScentral, users can upload, view, and download data and metadata. This paper provides an overview of the system architecture for the NEEScentral Data Repository, and describes features in support of earthquake engineering research including the ability to upload data, perform novel searches, create and print customizable reports of the data and metadata, curate and publish data sets, download data sets in formats that allow for ingestion into community developed visualization or data processing programs, and export project and experiment data and metadata from NEEScentral. The paper highlights the benefits of putting research data into the repository.

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