On April 6, the National Institute of Standards and Technology ("NIST") published a draft Big Data Interoperability Framework that facilitates scientists' use of big data sets. The Framework was drafted by NIST's Big Data Public Working Group, which developed big data definitions, taxonomies, important requirements for privacy and security protections, a standard road map, and a proposed reference architecture. NIST requested comments on the draft by May 21.
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