The Semantic Grid
www.semanticgrid.org
www.semanticgrid.org
e-Science offers a promising vision of how computer and
communication technology can support and enhance the scientific process. It does
this by enabling scientists to generate, analyse, share and discuss their insights,
experiments and results in a more effective manner. The Grid provides the underlying
computer infrastructure.
At this time, there are a number of grid applications being
developed and there is a whole raft of computer technologies that provide fragments of the
necessary functionality.
However there is currently a major gap between these endeavours and the vision of e-Science
in which there is a high degree of easy-to-use and seamless automation and in which
there are flexible collaborations and computations on a global scale.
The Semantic Grid is a vision of the infrastructure that is
needed to support the full richness of Grids and the e-Science vision, drawing on
research and development in both the Grid and the Semantic Web.
See the Web site for more information, including the original
‘Research Agenda’ by David
De Roure, Nicholas Jennings
and Nigel Shadbolt, plus new Semantic Grid papers and presentations, news and events.
and Nigel Shadbolt, plus new Semantic Grid papers and presentations, news and events.
Global
Grid Forum
Semantic
Grid Research Group
This group was approved as part of the GGF Architecture Area in
2002. The goal of the group is to
realise the added value of Semantic Web technologies for Grid users and developers. It
will provide a forum to track Semantic Web community activities and advise the
Grid community on the application of Semantic Web technologies in Grid
applications and infrastructure, to identify case studies and share good practice.
Chair: David De Roure,
University of Southampton, UK
Co-Chair: Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK
Co-Chair: Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, US
Co-Chair: Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK
Co-Chair: Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, US
Secretary: Bruce R.
Barkstrom, NASA Langley, US
To subscribe to the mailing list, send a subscribe sem-grd message to Majordomo@gridforum.org
More details available on the home page /GGF/
For further information about Semantic Grid activities and projects,
or to provide comments or express interest, please contact David De Roure
in the Grid and Pervasive Computing Group, Department of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK.
Email dder@ecs.soton.ac.uk
in the Grid and Pervasive Computing Group, Department of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK.
Email dder@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Several e-Science projects are developing Semantic Grid
technologies and establishing best practise, with increasing activity in Europe and the US.