GCRI · Data and Compute
Specialist community
Who takes part in Data and Compute, what they contribute and how moderation and privacy work.
The order things happen in.
- 01QuestionNational, regional or institutional priority
- 02EvidenceSTEM foundation of the platform
- 03BuildFoundry
- 04OrganiseNexus ecosystem
- 05TestUniverse (independent site)
- 06PublishReports
- 07DecideCompetent authorities and institutions, through NXS-RLS (participants, agreements and handoffs)
- 08RenewCorrections and the next annual agenda
The community.
Data engineers; HPC specialists; cloud architects; university compute teams.
Chapters
Added as sub-communities form
The professions that hold part of the data and compute picture.
The community joins research software engineers, data stewards, high-performance computing specialists, data-centre and energy engineers and data protection specialists. They meet over access, stewardship and sustainability, which are decided by different bodies but constrain each other. Their methods include computing and energy technology; topics include research infrastructure access.
- Research software engineers.
- Data stewards and archivists.
- High-performance computing specialists.
- Energy and data-centre engineers.
- Data protection specialists.
How the process runs.
Process explorer · Process
Specialist community: Working group, charter to sunset
9 steps·4 stages·1 gate
Process
Specialist community: Working group, charter to sunset
A working group is chartered by record for a fixed timebox, delivers bounded assignments, drafts and recommends, then dissolves unless renewed; it does not adopt.
01 Form
- 01NLC proposes the groupDecision · National Leadership CouncilThe NLC proposes working groups and nominates chairs, editors and experts from its leadership pools. It does not charter.
- 02Charter by recordDecision · National Standards CouncilA working group is chartered by record for a timebox of at most twenty-four months. The charter sets its scope, roles and decision rule.
- 03Members join by competenceStep · MembersExperts, practitioners, students and volunteers join by competence. Members declare interests and recuse on conflict.
02 Work
- 04Workplan from the national agendaStepAssignments come from the national agenda and the year's missions. Each states the competence it needs and how the work will be reviewed.
- 05Drafts and deliverables, delivered monthlyRecordGroups deliver monthly. For standards they draft the national profile and deviation register and run national public comment and pilots.
03 Review
- 06Contribution record and reviewGateEach contribution is recorded and reviewed. A working group drafts and recommends; it does not adopt.
- 07Recognition follows the recordRecordContribution records are kept, so that recognition follows the record.
- 08National adoption is decided elsewhereDecision · National Standards CouncilThe National Standards Council decides the adoption mode and the national profile. The working group proposes and never decides.
04 Close
- 09Dissolved by default, or renewed by recordDecision · National Standards CouncilA group is dissolved by default at the end of the timebox. The National Standards Council renews or closes it, on the NLC's proposal.
National Working Groups · National Standards Council · Decision rightsDesigned programme process, not a record of operation. No cycle has run and every programme is at service level R0. A gate is a programme decision, never a public-authority approval, certification or deployment authorisation. No working group is constituted. The charter rules belong to the proposed Nexus Standards working model.
How the community works.
- Moderation follows published rules, applied the same way to everyone.
- Personal data is used to run the community and is not shared for marketing.
- Taking part gives no authority, appointment or influence over findings.
- Conflicts of interest are declared before work begins.
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The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.
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Questions and answers.
How do I join?
Bring a method, a dataset or a question.
Information and enquiries are open today. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.
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