CASFI Data Sharing Platform

Abstract

Effective data management has become a key in promoting data sharing within measurement-based research community. In this work we propose a framework that helps us to share not only the data, but also the data management platform in order to promote collaboration across multiple institutions. We have designed and built a platform that manages measurement data and its metadata, provides basic processing primitives, and exchanges metadata with other platforms for easy local browsing of remote data. As our platform not only manages local data, but also provides consistent interface to remote data, users could browse and locate data of relevance without visiting multiple sites through different web interfaces. Any site could download our platform software package, install it, and make their metadata available to other sites with our platform.