This workshop is designed to help catalyze a community of experts to join a public/private effort to bootstrap the necessary infrastructure to support a comprehensive distributed, open network of knowledge—building upon simple, workable, extensible standards—to enable a new generation of knowledge-rich intelligent applications and systems.

This is the third in a series of meetings which have brought together experts in the field to discuss the viability of the idea, the level of support within the community, and the steps needed to move this idea forward. The NITRD Big Data Interagency Working Group (BDIWG) is hosting the workshop with the assistance of the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.

For more information please read the White Paper that came out of the first meeting in DC on July 29, 2016 and the Next Steps document that was a result of a meeting in Sunnyvale, CA on February 27, 2017.