Abstract
For over 30 years, NASA Science Mission Directorate has been a world
leader in making the data from its flagship missions available for
anyone to use. This data represents a significant public investment and
NASA has a mandate to maximize the accessibility of this information for
the public good. Along with the data collected by the Missions, NASA has
also supported the curation of data that enables ground breaking
research in each of our different disciplines. These novel technologies
for data access and curation from the different divisions have enabled
groundbreaking science. As technology advances and data volumes grow,
SMD is working towards even further enhancing the accessibility of the
information that NASA produces. This includes new policies to assure
that NASA data is FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and
Reusable) in the future, leverage techniques and technologies developed
by the different divisions for accessing information across the SMD,
enabling new technologies like machine learning and cloud processing
along with high performance computing, providing support for citation of
data through digital object identifiers, creating the ability to search
across SMD to enable cross divisional science, and making sure SMD data
are accessible to everyone. With these developments, NASA SMD aims to
help the community to Transform to Open Science and accelerate the
process of scientific discovery. In the process, this will enable SMD
science to be even more inclusive, reproducible, and transparent.