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Accessing Data in Grids Using OGSA-DAI

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Knowledge and Data Management in GRIDs

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The grid provides a vision in which resources, including storage and data, can be shared across organisational boundaries. The original emphasis of grid computing lay in the sharing of computational resources but technological and scientific advances have led to an ongoing data explosion in many fields. However, data is stored in many different storage systems and data formats, with different schema, access rights, metadata attributes, and ontologies all of which are obstacles to the access, integration and management of this information.

In this chapter we examine some of the ways in which these differences can be addressed by grid technology to enable the meaningful sharing of data. In particular, we present an overview of the OGSA-DAI (Open Grid Service Architecture - Data Access and Integration) software, which provides a uniform, extensible framework for accessing structured and semi-structured data and provide some examples of its use in other projects. The open-source OGSA-DAI software is freely available from http://www.ogsadai.org.uk.

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  1. EPCC, The University of Edinburgh, JCMB, The King’s Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK

    Neil P. Chue Hong & Mario Antonioletti

  2. National e-Science Centre, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AA, UK

    Konstantinos A. Karasavvas & Malcolm Atkinson

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  1. Dipto. Elettronica Informatica Sistemistica (DEIS), Università Calabria, via P. Bucci, 41 c, 87036, Rende, Italy

    Domenico Talia

  2. ICS-FORTH, P O BOX 1385, 711 10, Heraklion, Greece

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  3. Dept. Computer Science, University of Cyprus, 75 Kallipoleos Str., P.O.Box 20537, 1678, Nicosia, Cyprus

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Chue Hong, N.P., Antonioletti, M., Karasavvas, K.A., Atkinson, M. (2007). Accessing Data in Grids Using OGSA-DAI. In: Talia, D., Bilas, A., Dikaiakos, M.D. (eds) Knowledge and Data Management in GRIDs. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-37831-2_1

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