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Data and the UK e-Science ProgrammeData and the UK e-Science Programme

Paul WatsonDirector

North-East Regional e-Science CentreSchool of Computing ScienceUniversity of Newcastle, UK

Paul WatsonDirector

North-East Regional e-Science CentreSchool of Computing ScienceUniversity of Newcastle, UK

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Data – major focus of UK e-science

• Challenges attracted key UK researchers and industry already working in this area

• UK Programme has many data-centric applications• bioinformatics, medical, engineering,…

• Complex, interrelated data• interpretation & integration very important

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FilesFiles

Supporting Information-Driven Science

Databases Files Web

Location Querying Notification

MetadataDatabases

Workflow

User Applications

Information

InformationProcessing

Processing

locate, access, process, combine, share, alert

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UK e-Science Programme Response

• work on generic middleware• OGSA-DAI (Tutorial Yesterday)• ELDAS (Talk & Demo today)• work with SRB (Talk today)• ….

• work on data curation

• work on information models in application projects• semantics, security…

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MyGrid (& Gold) Information Model Example

Data Models

Relational XML RDF

Schem

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Sec urit y

Nam

in g & Lo ca tio n

Schema Independent Access Services

Query Update Notification

Domain Independent Access Services

Metadata Provenance Organisation

Domain Dependent Access Services

Data Storage (Distributed)

DBMS DBMSDBMS

Chem Eng Construction Biology

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Digital Curation Centre

• In next 5 years e-Science projects will produce more scientific data than has been collected in the whole of human history

• Digital Curation Centre created to address this• Sited at Edinburgh, with Glasgow, CLRC (Central

Laboratories of the Research Councils) and UKOLN• research into curation technologies and best practice • liaise closely with research communities, data archives and

libraries

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Ongoing Challenges

• Information integration• Integrating information access and computation• Security• …..