TY - CONF T1 - Accessing Data in Grids Using OGSA-DAI T2 - Knowledge and Data Management in Grids Y1 - 2007 A1 - Chue Hong, N. P. A1 - Antonioletti, M. A1 - Karasavvas, K. A. A1 - Atkinson, M. ED - Talia, D. ED - Bilas, A. ED - Dikaiakos, M. AB - The grid provides a vision in which resources, including storage and data, can be shared across organisational boundaries. The original emphasis of grid computing lay in the sharing of computational resources but technological and scientific advances have led to an ongoing data explosion in many fields. However, data is stored in many different storage systems and data formats, with different schema, access rights, metadata attributes, and ontologies all of which are obstacles to the access, integration and management of this information. In this chapter we examine some of the ways in which these differences can be addressed by grid technology to enable the meaningful sharing of data. In particular, we present an overview of the OGSA-DAI (Open Grid Service Architecture - Data Access and Integration) software, which provides a uniform, extensible framework for accessing structured and semi-structured data and provide some examples of its use in other projects. The open-source OGSA-DAI software is freely available from http://www.ogsadai.org.uk. JF - Knowledge and Data Management in Grids SN - 978-0-387-37830-5 UR - http://www.springer.com/computer/communication+networks/book/978-0-387-37830-5 ER - TY - CHAP T1 - Knowledge and Data Management in Grids, CoreGRID T2 - Euro-Par'06 Proceedings of the CoreGRID 2006, UNICORE Summit 2006, Petascale Computational Biology and Bioinformatics conference on Parallel processing Y1 - 2006 A1 - Chue Hong, N. P. A1 - Antonioletti, M. A1 - Karasavvas, K. A. A1 - Atkinson, M. ED - Lehner, W. ED - Meyer, N. ED - Streit, A. ED - Stewart, C. JF - Euro-Par'06 Proceedings of the CoreGRID 2006, UNICORE Summit 2006, Petascale Computational Biology and Bioinformatics conference on Parallel processing T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science PB - Springer CY - Berlin, Germany VL - 4375 SN - 978-3-540-72226-7 UR - http://www.springer.com/computer/communication+networks/book/978-3-540-72226-7 ER -