RDCO operates across the NIST ADLP laboratories and collaborates with research teams to facilitate adoption of standards and best practice for data science and computing. Enabling discovery and access to NISTs’ high-quality metrology research outputs is a strategic priority. In cooperation with external partners and organizations worldwide, RDCO seeks to strengthen NIST's leadership and impact through use of FAIR data and software.
RDCO Provides:
- Advocacy in the use of data standards and best practices for data science as it applies to metrology and development of AI
- Management and direction for NIST public access to research, including production and operation of the NIST Public Data Repository for preservation, discovery and access to research outputs
- Support for cross-laboratory research computing and high-performance computing (RC-HPC), including overseeing partnership with the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) supercomputing resource
- Communication and outreach for organizational data governance
- Support for communities of practice for NIST research data and computing
- Expertise for operation of full life cycle research data management (RDM)
- A roadmap for sustainable research data infrastructure (RDI) including tools, services, and shared resources for data storage, compute, and network connectivity
- Support for strategic initiatives including the CHIPS Metrology Exchange to Innovate in Semiconductors (METIS), development of the Circular Economy Resource Registry, laboratory programs such as Additive Manufacturing Benchmarks, Bioeconomy, and Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS)
- Collaboration and partnering with organizations in the public, academic and private sectors, including NMIs and standards organizations, to advance NIST’s digital leadership