Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard
Seminar Series
Wednesday, January 31, 2007; 4:00pm
60 Oxford Street, Room 330
Professor Carole Goble, The University of Manchester, UK
Seminar Title: Sense and Sensibility: Adding meaning to metadata for
manageable middleware
Abstract
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a grid application in
possession of good middleware, must be in want of meaningful metadata.
We have seen a variety of projects and programmes of activity that
have promoted systematic approaches to describing, linking and
sharing metadata, particularly through the use of community-wide
terminologies or ontologies. Life Sciences have led the way. The
founding of the USA’s National Centre for BioMedical Ontology (http://
www.bioontology.org <http://www.bioontology.org/>) is an example. The
Semantic Web has given distributed information management a technical
impetus, and once again the Life Sciences are pioneers. Meanwhile,
the Semantic Grid initiative attempts to marry the two technical
efforts of Grid Middleware and Web-wide Information Management to
generally support better metadata (and data) management for Science
applications and the infrastructure that underpins them. Again, early
examples such as myGrid are found in the Life Sciences. Recent work
on a Semantic Open Grid Service Architecture (S-OGSA) lays the
foundation for a systematic yet lightweight approach to deploying
semantics into new and legacy Grid middleware.
In this talk I will share my experiences of applying Semantic Web and
ontology based approaches to represent and classify metadata and
discuss the Semantic Grid using the S-OGSA as an illustration. I’ll
also take the opportunity to voice some concerns and raise some
challenges that we have to overcome, not many of which are technical.
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