A new interoperable distributed network for biological and environmental data is being funded under the NSF DataNet initiative. Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE) "will ensure preservation and access to multi-scale, multi-discipline, and multi-national science data. DataONE will transcend domain boundaries and make biological data available from the genome to the ecosystem; make environmental data available from atmospheric, ecological, hydrological, and oceanographic sources; provide secure and long-term preservation and access; and engage scientists, land-managers, policy makers, students, educators, and the public through logical access and intuitive visualizations."
DataONE sounds analogous to what the geoscience community is doing through the Geoscience Information Network (GIN) and the National Geothermal Data System (NGDS), but for bio-based and related data.
This is yet another indication of the convergence I'm seeing among all of the spatially-based domain sciences in digital data - Web-based, interoperable, distributed, and open-sourced.
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