Articles of Data Confederation: DataONE, the KNB, and a multitude of Metacats-- scaling interoperable data discovery and preservation from the lab to the Internet

Mark Schildhauer1,2, Matthew B. Jones3, Christopher S. Jones2 and Jing Tao4, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (3)University of California Santa Barbara, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (4)National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, United States