[DAIS-WG] AIST Data Integration & Semantic Grid demonstrations at SC07

[Isao Kojima]

Dear

The opening of SC07(http://sc07.supercomputing.org/) in Reno is
quickly approaching.
At the conference, the Data Grid Team(http://www.dbgrid.org/)
of the Grid Technology Research Center, AIST, Japan will offer software
demonstrations related to several Data Integration and Semantic Grid activities.

If you are attending SC07, please kindly visit our booth #765 to see
these active projects and to discuss them in detail.
You are always welcome to stop by the AIST booth.

1) S-MDS(Semantic resource discovery and monitoring system) technical preview.
S-MDS is a Semantic Metadata Discovery and Monitoring system which
extends the Globus Toolkit4 MDS/Index Service by using the semantic
web technologies.
The system semantically describes grid resources (services) so that
they can be more efficiently and effectively discovered and monitored.
It does not require any change to the (targeted) grid resources so
that it can "peacefully" work with your grid resources.

2) OGSA-DQP extensions to support XML and OGSA-WebDB :
OGSA-WebDB is an OGSA-DAI extension that provides access to Web databases
via the OGSA-DAI framework. During SC07, we will demonstrate data integration
from heterogeneous data sources including Web databases and XML databases
exposed via OGSA-DAI. This is achieved by extensions to OGSA-DQP that
we are currently developing in order to investigate distributed query
processing
with various data representations.

3) Federated SPARQL prototype as a database infrastructure for
Semantic Grid applications.
We will demonstrate our federated SPARQL processor prototype using
our RDFCube index structure which facilitates a reduction in the
amount of data transfer
during query execution. The new prototype of OGSA-DAI-RDF, which supports
federated SPARQL processing using OGSA-DAI 3.0, will also be demonstrated.

4) Data integration application of GEO Grid:
GEO Grid is a grid based e-infrastructure for geosciences and we will
have several
demonstrations including a data integration application which
integrates several
satellite image databases using the OGSA-DAI 3.0 framework.

We also have a presentation session titled "Data Integration and the
Semantic Grid Workshop".
This is scheduled to start at 15:30 on Tuesday 13th, at our booth.
The guest presenters will include Dr. Neil Cheng Hong of OMII.
Please come and join the discussion if you are interested.

We are looking forward to seeing you soon at SC07.

Sincerely
Data Grid Team
Grid Technology Research Center,
AIST
Japan