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Decentralized infrastructure with local control
NIH believed firmly in In funding the 2009-2012 VIVO and eagle-i initiatives that a top-heavy, centralized infrastructure was not the way to goproject, the National Institutes of Health stated clearly that it was "interested in distributed or federated approaches to both research networking and resource discovery with local control of information sources." We believe local control is key to information quality, stewardship, and long-term sustainability for research networking efforts in the U.S. and around the world.
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