Management of evolving semantic grid metadata within a collaborative platform

  • Authors:

  • Michael Hartung;Frank Loebe;Heinrich Herre;Erhard Rahm

  • Affiliations:

  • Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics, University of Leipzig, Härtelstraíe 16-18, 04107 Leipzig, Germany;Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig, P.O. Box 100920, 04009 Leipzig, Germany;Institute of Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Härtelstraíe 16-18, 04107 Leipzig, Germany;Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig, P.O. Box 100920, 04009 Leipzig, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Information Sciences: an International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Grid environments, providing distributed infrastructures, computing resources and data storage, usually show a high degree of heterogeneity and change in their metadata. We propose a platform for collaborative management and maintenance of common metadata for grids. As the conceptual foundation of this platform, a meta model is presented which distinguishes structured descriptions and classification structures that both are modifiable. On this basis, the system allows for the creation and editing of grid relevant metadata and provides various search and navigation facilities for grid participants. We applied the platform to the German D-Grid initiative by establishing the D-Grid Ontology (DGO).