An ontology for scientific information in a Grid environment: the earth system Grid

Author

Pouchard, Line ; Cinquini, Luca ; Drach, Bob ; Middleton, Don ; Bernholdt, David ; Chanchio, Kasidit ; Foster, Ian ; Nefedova, Veronika ; Brown, David ; Fox, Peter ; Garcia, Jose ; Strand, Gary ; Williams, Dean ; Chervenak, Ann ; Kesselman, Carl ; Shoshan

Author_Institution

Oak Ridge Nat. Lab., TN, USA

fYear

2003

fDate

12-15 May 2003

Firstpage

626

Lastpage

632

Abstract

In the emerging world of Grid Computing, shared computational, data, other distributed resources are becoming available to enable scientific advancement through collaborative research and collaboratories. This paper describes the increasing role of ontologies in the context of Grid Computing for obtaining, comparing and analyzing data. We present ontology entities and a declarative model that provide the outline for an ontology of scientific information. Relationships between concepts are also given. The implementation of some concepts described in this ontology is discussed within the context of the Earth System Grid II (ESG)[1].

Keywords

Earth; geographic information systems; grid computing; groupware; resource allocation; scientific information systems; collaborative research; declarative model; distributed resource; earth science; earth system grid; ontology entity; scientific information; Data analysis; Distributed computing; Earth; Geoscience; Grid computing; Information science; International collaboration; Laboratories; Marine technology; Ontologies;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cluster Computing and the Grid, 2003. Proceedings. CCGrid 2003. 3rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1919-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCGRID.2003.1199424

Filename

1199424