Integrating distributed climate data resources: The NERC datagrid

WOOLF, ANDREW; LAWRENCE, BRYAN; LOWRY, ROY; VAN DAM, KERSTIN KLEESE; CRAMER, RAY; GUTIERREZ, MARTA; KONDAPALLI, SIVA; LATHAM, SUSAN; O’NEILL, KEVIN; STEPHENS, AG. 2011 Integrating distributed climate data resources: The NERC datagrid. [Other] In: UNSPECIFIED. 215-233.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9789812701831_0016

Abstract/Summary

An essential pattern of Grid computing is the virtualisation of resources. The NERC DataGrid (NDG) is a UK e-Science project that will provide discovery of, and virtualised access to, a wide variety of climate and earth-system science data. We present an overview of key elements of the NDG architecture beginning with the NDG metadata taxonomy for various information categories. Architecture components include: federation of discovery metadata exploiting the harvesting protocols of the Open Archives Initiative; a domain ontology to support navigation of data relationships during search and discovery; data storage transparency achieved through a wrapper mechanism and a data model based on emerging ISO standards for spatial data; and finally, a role-based authorisation framework which interfaces with existing access control infrastructures and supports mappings between credentials to establish networks of trust.

Item Type:	Publication - Conference Item (Other)
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1142/9789812701831_0016
Date made live:	10 Jan 2022 14:29 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/531724

Item Type:

Publication - Conference Item (Other)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1142/9789812701831_0016

Date made live:

10 Jan 2022 14:29 +0 (UTC)

URI:

https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/531724