Brown Dog: Leveraging everything towards autocuration

We present Brown Dog, two highly extensible services that aim to leverage any existing pieces of code, libraries, services, or standalone software (past or present) towards providing users with a simple to use and programmable means of automated aid in the curation and indexing of distributed collections of uncurated and/or unstructured data. Data collections such as these encompassing large varieties of data, in addition to large amounts of data, pose a significant challenge within modern day "Big Data" efforts. The two services, the Data Access Proxy (DAP) and the Data Tilling Service (DTS), focusing on format conversions and content based analysis/extraction respectively, wrap relevant conversion and extraction operations within arbitrary software, manages their deployment in an elastic manner, and manages job execution from behind a deliberately compact REST API. We describe both the motivation and need/scientific drivers for such services, the constituent components that allow for arbitrary software/code to be used and managed, and lastly an evaluation of the systems capabilities and scalability.

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