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HPC-ED is working to improve discovery and sharing of CyberTraining resources through the combination of the HPC-ED CyberTraining Catalog, an effective and flexible interface, thoughtful metadata design, and active community participation. HPC-ED encourages authors to share training resource information while retaining ownership and allows organizations to enrich their local portals with shared materials. By basing the architecture on an established, flexible framework, HPC-ED can provide a range of solutions people and organizations can employ for sharing and discovering materials. In this paper we describe the initial pilot phase of the project, where we prototyped the HPC-ED catalog, established an initial metadata set, provided documentation, and began using the system to share and discover materials. We gathered community feedback through a variety of means, and are now planning an implementation phase based on evolving our architecture and tools to meet community needs and feedback through improved interfaces and tools designed to address a range of preferences.
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Building a Federated Catalog for CyberTraining Materials: The HPC-ED Pilot Project
To improve the sharing and discovery of CyberTraining materi- als, the HPC-ED Pilot project team is building a platform for the community to better share and find training materials through a federated catalog. The platform, currently in early test mode, is fo- cused on a flexible platform, informative metadata, and community participation. By creating a framework for identifying, sharing, and including content broadly, HPC-ED will: allow providers of training materials to reach new groups of learners; extend the breadth and depth of training materials; and enable local sites to add or extend local portals.
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- Award ID(s):
- 2320977
- PAR ID:
- 10546199
- Publisher / Repository:
- ACM
- Date Published:
- ISBN:
- 9798400704192
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 1 to 5
- Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
- Education Training Community engagement HPC Cyberinfrastructure Metadata Globus
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Location:
- Providence RI USA
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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Accepted Manuscript1.0
- Conference Paper:
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3626203.3670586
