Practice Areas

The IRI Architecture Blueprint Activity defined the following six practice areas (cross-cutting communities of practice whose efforts will be essential to advance robust and extensible IRI designs and solutions) [B4]:

• User experience practice will ensure relentless attention to user perspectives and needs through requirements gathering, user-centric (co)-design, continuous feedback, and other means.

• Resource co-operations practice is focused on creating new modes of cooperation, collaboration, co-scheduling, and joint planning across facilities and DOE programs.

• Cybersecurity and federated access practice is focused on creating novel solutions that enable seamless scientific collaboration within a secure and trusted IRI ecosystem.

• Workflows, interfaces, and automation practice is focused on creating novel solutions that facilitate the dynamic assembly of components across facilities into end-to-end IRI pipelines.

• Scientific data life cycle practice is focused on ensuring that users can manage their data and metadata across facilities from inception to curation, archiving, dissemination, and publication.

• Portable/scalable solutions practice is focused on ensuring that transitions can be made across heterogeneous facilities (portability) and from smaller to larger resources (scalability).