Open Knowledge Network: Summary of the Big Data IWG Workshop

Since July 2016, the Big Data Interagency Working Group (BD IWG) has been involved in meetings to discuss the viability of and possible first steps to creating a public-private data network infrastructure, the Open Knowledge Network (OKN). On October 4–5, 2017, the Big Data IWG hosted a workshop to both expand the discussion to similar work being done in biomedicine, finance, geoscience, and manufacturing and to gather expert advice on next steps to advance the OKN. This report summarizes those discussions.