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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. 

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. 

Throughout the cyberinfrastructure community there are a large range of resources available to train faculty and young scholars about successful utilization of computational resources for research. The challenge that the community faces is that training materi- als abound, but they can be difficult to find, and often have little information about the quality or relevance of offerings. Building on existing software technology, we propose to build a way for the community to better share and find training and education materials through a federated training repository. In this scenario, organizations and authors retain physical and legal ownership of their materials by sharing only catalog information, organizations can refine local portals to use the best and most appropriate ma- terials from both local and remote sources, and learners can take advantage of materials that are reviewed and described more clearly. In this paper, we introduce the HPC ED pilot project, a federated training repository that is designed to allow resource providers, campus portals, schools, and other institutions to both incorporate training from multiple sources into their own familiar interfaces and to publish their local training materials.