WisNetGrid - Networks of Knowledge in the Grid

In most scientific fields the term "knowledge" is understood as cross-linked information. According to this definition information becomes knowledge if it is found in a context that makes the information adequately usable. The information is derived from data by assigning a structure and meaning which is originating from the sum of experience of the people. The current D-Grid infrastructure primarily covers the data level with technical resources like computing, networks, storage and software. The actual content like research and production data, documents, pictures etc. as well as the know-how and the processing tools, is generated, transported, processed and maintained within the separate communities. Nevertheless, current cooperative and interdisciplinary environments in research and business lack sufficient integration and are of limited use.



Users, D-Grid communities, and D-Grid resource providers can use and offer resources under economic conditions through the SLA layer. Service demands that require a certain Quality of Service (QoS) are matched with corresponding offers by means of SLAs. SLAs will be automatically created, negotiated, and monitored by the SLA layer exploiting further D-Grid services such as Monitoring and Accounting. As a result both, academic and industrial users, can use D-Grid efficiently.


Aims
The project WisNetGrid wants to create a common "knowledge space" within the D-Grid infrastructure by developing a service layer for content. It will be based on the technical layer of the shared hardware and middleware resources of D-Grid.

Application areas and communities
The community "environment" does not only represent a single sector but a whole group with similar goals. The group consists of fields dealing with environmental data (e.g. architecture, landscaping, geology, administration). The other use case within the project are the humantities, specifically the existing D-Grid community TextGrid. Mechanisms for interoperability of data and metadata are planned especially for the metadata and ontology services.

Partner

item Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany,
The contact person is Bernd Schuller.
item Technische Universität Dresden, Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing (coordinator)
item Universität Karlsruhe, Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description MethodsInformationstechnologie GmbH
item Gesellschaft für Wissens- und Technologietransfer TUD GmbH
item Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken
item Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
item TU Dresden, Institut für Landschaftsarchitektur
item T-Systems Systems for Research GmbH
item Universität Würzburg - Institut für deutsche Philologie
item Sun Microsystems GmbH


Duration
July 2009 until June 2012


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