Advancing of Russian ChemBioGrid by bringing Data Management tools into collaborative environment

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2006:120:179-86.

Abstract

Virtual organizations of researchers need effective tools to work collaboratively with huge sets of heterogeneous data distributed over HealthGrid. This paper describes a mechanism of supporting Digital Libraries in High-Performance Computing environment based on Grid technology. The proposed approach provides abilities to assemble heterogeneous data from distributed sources into integrated virtual collections by using OGSA-DAI. The core of the conception is a Repository of Meta-Descriptions that are sets of metadata which define personal and collaborative virtual collections on base of virtualized information resources. The Repository is kept in a native XML-database Sedna and is maintained by Grid Data Services.

MeSH terms

  • Cooperative Behavior*
  • Databases as Topic / organization & administration*
  • Medical Informatics*
  • Russia