Description

Grid environments, providing distributed infrastructures, computing resources and data storage, usually show a high degree of heterogeneity 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. On this basis, the system allows for the user-friendly 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).

BibTex

@inproceedings{hartung_idc2008,
  author    = {Michael Hartung and
               Frank Loebe and
               Heinrich Herre and
               Erhard Rahm},
  title     = {A Platform for Collaborative Management of Semantic Grid Metadata},
  booktitle = {IDC},
  year      = {2008},
  pages     = {115-125},
  ee        = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85257-5_12}
}