CDMI 3.0: Data Management for the AI Era

CDMI 3.0, the third major revision of the Cloud Data Management Interface, is nearing completion in 2026, with submission to update ISO/IEC 17826 planned for early 2027. This update provides multiple powerful capabilities to enhance data management for AI workloads, including dataset discovery, optimal access method discovery, multiple representation specification, graph relationships for building and traversing storage management knowledge graphs, and support for MCP and skills to allow agents to use CDMI functionality as a standard and open data management protocol.

This presentation will provide an overview of the CDMI 3.0 functionality completed to date, and will include demonstrations of the use cases where CDMI helps solve AI data management challenges, including:

1. As a data management agent, how can I discover AI data repositories?
2. As a data management agent, how can I discover the best way to access AI data?
3. As a data management agent, how can I specify the desired data representation?
4. As a data management agent, how can I traverse and build agent-ready knowledge graphs?
5. As a data management agent, how can I manage storage systems and a standard and interoperable way?

The presentation will conclude with a review of the CDMI extension process and a last-call for contributions to CDMI 3.0.