Innovation and Digital Services Program Overview

Jason Duley

OCIO T&I Division/ARC

jason.duley@nasa.gov

6/24/2015

Topics

• Innovation and Digital Services Program
• Open Data
• Data Stewards
• API Program
• Code Sharing
• Conclusion

Innovation Program

• Digital Strategy
• Agency Representation
• Management of Open IT Systems
• Citizen Collaboration
• Open Source Software
• Open Data

Open Data

• NASA Open Data Portal
  • Dataset meta-data/links to authoritative source
  • Hosted orphaned datasets
  • Provides API Wrappers
  • Citizen Engagement / Feedback

http://data.nasa.gov

Open Data

• Why Open Data
  • Make datasets available to citizens
  • Meet OMB mandates to catalog open data (M-13-13)
• How
  • data.nasa.gov Data Portal + automation
  • Public Data Listing and Federal Government Harvesting on data.gov

Open Data

• Open data catalog
  • Each federal agency maintains a Public Data Listing (PDL)
  • PDLs are "harvested" by GSA and dataset meta-data is made available at catalog.data.gov
  • NASA is close to ~28k dataset publications for next milestone

http://catalog.data.gov

Data Stewards

• Who is a Data Steward?

  • Eyes/ears in the agency for NASA’s cool data

  • POC who knows where the relevant data is located

• Why it's needed:

  • Stewards helps to broker data inquiries with data owners

  • Reviews/curates citizen-generated data innovations from NASA challenges 

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API Program

• Why API Management is needed
  • Increasing number of APIs
  • Finer-grained resource allocation
  • API access control
• Deployment vs. Management
  • mgmt layer sits in front of deployment (e.g.: micro-service)
• Features
  • Caching, Rate Limiting, API Keys
  • Provides hooks for analytics

API Catalog

• One stop shop to get started using NASA APIs
• Promotes citizen contribution

• Site dedicated to NASA APIs
• Sign up for developer keys
• Live code editor integrated with site to experiment with API
• Templates for API documentation

https://api.nasa.gov

Code Sharing

• Several sub-areas within "Code Sharing"

  • Open Source Software publication

  • Challenge - Solution Incubation

  • Inter-Center Code Sharing Infratructure

  • Distributed Software Registry

Process

Code Sharing

• Open Source Software publication

  • 180+ Released Open Source projects

  • Community-driven via Open Software Catalog

  • Search Projects, SRA Contact Info, Process Information

http://code.nasa.gov

Code Sharing

• Internal NASA Code Sharing

• Heterogenous Federated Code Sharing System Prototype

• Repositories (GIT / SVN / Hg / CVS / Custom)

• Distributed Repository Browsing

• Full-text Search of Source Code

• Faceted Search of Projects

• Leverage Data Standards to model software projects (Distributed Software Registry)

Code Sharing

Distributed Software Registry

• Problem: Need a way to describe Software Projects using a standard controlled vocabulary 
• How: Leverage Data On A Project (DOAP) RDF vocabulary to model software assets
• Challenge: Need a simplified way to allow software owners create/manage descriptions
• Solution: Create a framework to allow authoring of project descriptions which are easy for developers to use, but create metadata descriptions with enough specificity 

Final Thoughts

• EA Community can help us by:
  • Becoming/Recommending Data Stewards
  • Drive software architectures to use loosly-coupled APIs
  • Promote release of Open Source Software