Data Management Requirements for a Knowledge Discovery Platform

Abstract — This paper provides some requirements for the data management portion of a knowledge discovery ecosystem platform. The requirements are functional – what the platform should provide for its clients; quality – how the platform should support modifiability, performance, and availability; and management – how the platform supports operational control to sites that use it. It also provides design guidance that reflects the lack of central management that exists in an ecosystem. Keywords- data management, platform, knowledge discovery, software ecosystem, architecture I