Description

The Cyberinfrastructure for Public Access and Open Science (CI PAOS) program, administered by the NSF Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, aims to catalyze new and transformative socio-technical partnerships that support research data infrastructure ecosystems. The program encourages early-stage collaborative activities among cyberinfrastructure researchers, scientists, research computing experts, data management experts, research labs, university libraries, and other communities of practice.

CI PAOS supports the NSF Public Access Initiative and national goals for open science by fostering innovation to improve the accessibility, discoverability, reliability, reproducibility, sustainability, and utility of research data. The program welcomes projects that build competencies, capabilities, or communities in data management and open science, especially those that leverage interdisciplinary and international collaborations.

Projects should clearly articulate the goals, challenges, and rationale for the proposed work, demonstrate potential for transformative research and broad impacts, and identify specific science scenarios or use cases. Exploratory and pilot activities are encouraged, as are efforts that address common needs across disciplines or accelerate the impact of existing cyberinfrastructure investments.