Technology Innovators

Group Type: Research Group

Group Chair(s): Carole Goble, David De Roure, Geoffrey Fox

Group Secretary(s): Marlon Pierce

Group Email: sem-rg@ogf.org (Subscribe) (Archive by date)

The goal of the Semantic Grid Research Group (SEM-RG) is to realise the added value of emerging Web technologies and approaches, in particular Semantic Web and Web 2.0, for Grid users and developers. We provide a forum to track Web community activities and advise the Grid community on the application of these technologies and approaches in Grid applications and infrastructure, to identify case studies, share good practice and set an agenda for future work.

The Semantic Grid Research Group was created to help realize the potential of applying Semantic Web technologies - in particular, machine-processable metadata descriptions and annotations - within the e-Science research environment. We believe that this approach is essential to achieve the full richness of the Grid vision, with a high degree of easy-to-use and seamless automation enabling flexible collaborations and computations on a global scale.

Through tracking emerging Web technologies and their deployment within e-Science, the Semantic Grid Research Group provides a forum to establish and disseminate best practice in 'Semantic Grid' and establish an agenda for future activities. It achieves this both through annual workshops and through collaborations with events outside OGF. The 2007 workshop focused on the Web 2.0 approach and its particular benefits in enabling people to create and collaborate.

The group engages in a diverse range of activities which includes (1) the application of Web technologies within the lifecycle of information, including scientific data and other digital artifacts of the e-Science process such as workflows and provenance; (2) application of Web technologies within the infrastructure, for example resource and service descriptions, in order to facilitate automation in discovering and combining resources; and (3) application to the social dimension of e-Science, from social networks to collective intelligence.

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