Everything about Data Infrastructure Building Blocks

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Data Infrastructure Building BlocksA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: The Art of CommunityThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Read the landmark paper: Working across Scales: Shared Building-Blocks of a Sustainable Infrastructure Environment for Bio/Geodiversity DataCited 0 times
4. Go sideways: DatanetA closely related topic
5. Go sideways: CyberinfrastructureA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Working across Scales: Shared Building-Blocks of a Sustainable Infrastructure Environment for Bio/Geodiversity Data

  Jutta Buschbom, James Macklin, Deborah Paul · 2025 · Biodiversity Information Science and Standards · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The Art of CommunityJono Bacon · 2009
• The Conspirators HierarchyJohn Coleman · 1992
• 📕Data Infrastructure Building BlocksGerard Blokdyk · 2018
• 📕Data Infrastructure Building BlocksGerard Blokdyk · 2018
• Passenger Risk Management Infrastructure Solution Building BlockAmarjit S. Bahl · 2006
• 100 deadly skillsClint Emerson · 2015
• Understanding cryptographyChristof Paar · 2010
• 📕Supply chain risk managementKenneth Sigler · 2018

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

🔗 Related topics

• Datanet DataNet, or Sustainable Digital Data Preservation and Access Network Partner, was a research program of the U.S. National Science Foundation Office of…
• Cyberinfrastructure United States federal government agencies use the term cyberinfrastructure to describe research environments that support advanced data acquisition, data…
• TeraGrid TeraGrid was an e-Science grid computing infrastructure combining resources at eleven partner sites. The project started in 2001 and operated from 2004…
• National Center for Supercomputing Applications The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is a unit of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and provides high-performance computing…
• ICME cyberinfrastructure Integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) involves the integration of experimental results, design models, simulations, and other computational…
• IPlant Collaborative The iPlant Collaborative, renamed Cyverse in 2017, is a virtual organization created by a cooperative agreement funded by the US National Science Foundation…
• Helen Aristar-Dry Helen Aristar-Dry is an American linguist who currently serves as the series editor for SpringerBriefs in Linguistics. Most notably, from 1991 to 2013…
• Texas Advanced Computing Center The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas at Austin, United States, is an advanced computing research center that is based…