The Engagement and Performance Operations Center: EPOC

In 2018, the US National Science Foundation (NSF) funded the Engagement and Performance Operations Center (EPOC), a joint project between Indiana University (IU) and the Department of Energy's Energy Science Network (ESnet), to work with domain scientists to accelerate the ability of distributed collaborations to share data in order to reach broader science goals. The goal of this funding was to create an operations center for engagement - including definition of formal processes, tracking of engagements, and funded staff, not simply best effort by volunteers, with a goal of enabling digital societies to better share scientific data.