Data Group Report

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Data Group Report

• Paul Watson
• Malcolm Atkinson
• Satoshi Matsuoka
• Isao Kojima
• Robert Triendl

2
Rules

• Range of types of collaboration from integration
  resource sharing through to long-term research
• different types of collaboration require
  different types of funding organisation
• Look for Application driver for each area
• Life Sciences
• Astronomy

3
OGSA-DAI and related components

• Technology Development Integration
• OGSA-DAI (Malcolm Atkinson, Paul Watson)
• OGSA-DQP
• OGSA-WebData (Isao Kojima)
• Look for Life Sciences application driver
• myGrid, BioGrid, Open Bioinformatics Grid
• Opportunity for longer term research
• DQPGFarm integration
• Distributed querying result storage
  processing
• Paul Watson, Professor Tatebe

4
Research into building High Quality Registries
for Databases

• Driven by the need to support semantic searching
  to find databases that contain interesting
  information
• cataloguing, registries, indexing
• semantic grid
• Malcolm Atkinson

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Data Portals

• Automatically generating portals for data access
• Links to previous, registries area
• Malcolm Atkinson, Satoshi Matsuoka, Indiana

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Handling binary data

• Querying binary data through XML queries
• XML Description of Structured Data
• Formal description of data
• Efficient data transmission
• Malcolm Atkinson

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Other Issues

• Data security
• including medical data
• role-based access control
• interesting Japanese government technology