SEMGRD RG news

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SEM-GRD RG news

• GGF7

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Research Agenda for theSemantic GridA Future
e-Science Infrastructure

• Technical Report of the National e-Science Centre
• UKeS-2002-02, 2001.

David De Roure - Distributed Systems, Web Nigel
Shadbolt - Advanced Knowledge Technologies Nick
Jennings - Agent Based Computing Mark Baker -
Grid technologies
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Aim

• A Research Agenda aiming to move from the
  current state-of-the-art in e-Science
  infrastructure to the future infrastructure that
  is needed to support the full richness of the
  e-Science vision.

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The report

• Commissioned for UK e-Science Programme
• Draft distributed in July 2001, samizdat
  publication was influential
• Completed in December, and report now split into
  two documents
• The Evolution of the Grid (De Roure, Baker,
  Jennings, Shadbolt)
• The Semantic Grid (De Roure, Jennings, Shadbolt)
• See also Semantic Web and Grid Computing (Goble,
  De Roure)

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Grid -gt Semantic Web community

• WWW2002
• Semantic Web Track
• Chairs Carole Goble Eric Miller
• 12 refereed papers, 2 panels, 2 workshops, lots
  of posters
• 50 developers day at SW track.

• 1st International Semantic Web Conference ISWC
• Chairs Ian Horrocks Jim Hendler
• 4 tutorials, 40 refereed papers

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Keynotes
Ian Foster at WWW2002 Carl Kesselman at
ISWC2002 Plus panel at WWW2002
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Semantic Grid Panel
WWW2002 Semantic Grid Panel

• What do grid computing and semantic web have in
  common? Where do they differ?
• Does the Grid need the Semantic Web?
• Does the Semantic Web need the Grid?
• Where do you think it's going in 50 years?
• What is the biggest challenge we must address to
  realise the semantic grid?

Grid meets Web
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SW -gt Grid Community

• Global Grid Forum 5 in Edinburgh
• Semantic Grid BOF
• Ontologies and the Grid tutorial
• Semantic Web keynote by Henry Thompson

Dave Carole Nigel
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Semantic Grid RG Charter

• Goal
• The goal of this RG 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.

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Semantic Grid RG Charter

• When the scientist seeks answers to problems
  such as the following, we wish to have the answer
  obtained by automatic linking of databases and
  computational resources by means of metadata,
  ontologies and reasoning over both i.e. Semantic
  Web and Grid technologies

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Semantic Grid RG Charter

• "Correlate the new molecular structure with the
  existing structural databases what are the
  likely physical properties of the crystal?"
• "Retrieve align 2000nt 5' from every
  serine/threonine kinase in Fabacae expressed
  exclusively in the root cortex whose expression
  increases 5x or more upon infection by Rhizobium
  but is not affected by osmotic or heavy-metal
  stresses is lt40 homologous in the active site
  to kinases known to be involved in cell-cycle
  regulation in any other species"
• How many cows in Texas? And how many will there
  be if we increase land tax? ?

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Semantic Grid RG Charter

• Projected Tasks
• Track semantic web activities and inform the Grid
  community on what tools and ideas to use now and
  which to watch
• Provide a forum to discuss and share best
  practice in Semantic Grid' projects
• Create links with other RG and WG to both push
  Semantic Grid expertise and to offer a service of
  expertise. For example, participation in the
  proposed working group on scheduling ontology.
• Operate a community web portal
• Encourage engagement between the Grid and
  Semantic Web communities.
• Spawn Working Groups

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semgrd-rg_at_gridforum.org
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Web Semantics Science, Services and Agents on
the World Wide Web

• http//authors.elsevier.com/
• The Semantic Web
• Knowledge Technologies
• Ontology
• Agents
• Databases
• Semantic Grid and Peer-to-Peer Technology
• Information Retrieval
• Language Technology
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Knowledge Discovery
• Web Standards
• eBusiness
• eCommunity
• Knowledge Management
• eLearning
• Digital Libraries
• e-Science

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http//www.isi.edu/stefan/SemPGRID/
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Workshop on e-Services and the Semantic Web at
WWW2003
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Intl. Semantic Web Conference

• Semantic Web Technologies for Searching and
  Retrieving Scientific Data" workshop in ISWC
  2003.

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The Emerging Semantic Web

• Selection of papers from last years SWWS
  improved and edited.
• IOS press, Amsterdam (NL), 2002
• 300p., 80 EUR
• More info from

http//www.inrialpes.fr/exmo/papers/emerging/