diff --git a/docs/pages/about-pelican.mdx b/docs/pages/about-pelican.mdx index cb9fad833..c02cf9e51 100644 --- a/docs/pages/about-pelican.mdx +++ b/docs/pages/about-pelican.mdx @@ -5,11 +5,16 @@ import ImageRow from "@/components/ImageRow"; Pelican is an open-source software platform for building data federations that works by connecting a broad range of data repositories under a unified architecture. Whether data lives on a POSIX filesystem, in S3, or behind an HTTP server, Pelican aims to bring this data together and simplify its access by abstracting away the need to know where it comes from. **Pelican's goals are to**: -- Enable researchers to access data from wherever it lives wherever they need it -- without having to learn multiple backend technologies. This access could take place in a Jupyter notebook, a campus cluster, or from national-scale computing infrastructure like the [OSPool](https://osg-htc.org/services/open_science_pool.html). -- Enable repositories and storage providers to make their data accessible to a broad range of users while maintaining control over how their data is accessed and by whom +- Enable access to data wherever it is needed, regardless of where it comes from -- without having to learn multiple backend technologies. This access could take place in a Jupyter notebook, a campus cluster, or from national-scale computing infrastructure like the [OSPool](https://osg-htc.org/services/open_science_pool.html). +- Support Open Science initiatives by supporting inter-disciplinary data sharing - Encourage and support [FAIR](https://www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/) data practices - Allow computing providers to stage data on-site as it's needed +**Pelican enables researchers to**: +- Integrate their data with national-scale computing infrastructure, with a focus on easy setup, distributed data caching and object delivery efficiency +- Make their data accessible to a broad range of users while maintaining control over how their data is accessed and by whom +- Coalesce disparate data repositories like S3, Globus and Posix under a common namespace + The flagship federation underpinned by Pelican is called the [Open Science Data Federation](https://osdf.osg-htc.org/) (OSDF), which serves a variety of large scientific collaborations across more than fifty data providers and approximately two dozen caches located throughout the world, often at points of presence within the global Research and Education networks such as ESNet and Internet2. ## Core Concepts and Terminology