INSPIRE and D4Science-II abstract accepted for CHEP2010

INSPIRE and D4Science-II related abstract has been accepted for the CHEP2010 conference.

Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP) conference will be  held at Academia Sinica in Taipei 18-22 October 2010. For more information about the conference, please click here.

The is the abstract:

Physicists get INSPIREd: INSPIRE Project and Grid Applications

INSPIRE is the new high-energy physics scientific information system developed by CERN, DESY, Fermilab and SLAC. INSPIRE combines the curated and trusted contents of SPIRES database with the Invenio digital library technology. INSPIRE contains the entire HEP literature with about one million records and in addition to becoming the reference HEP scientific information platform it aims to provide new kinds of data mining services and metrics to assess the impact of articles and authors.

Grid and cloud computing provide new opportunities to provide better services in areas that require large CPU and storage resources including document Optical Character Recognition (OCR) processing, full-text indexing of articles and improved metrics.

D4Science-II is a European project that develops and operates an e-Infrastructure supporting Virtual Research Environments (VREs). It develops an enabling technology (gCube) that implements mechanism for facilitating the interoperation of its e-Infrastructure with other data e-Infrastructures that are running autonomously thus creating the core of  an e-Infrastructure Ecosystem. INSPIRE is one of the e-Infrastructures participating in D4Science-II project. In the context of the D4Science-II project, the INSPIRE e-Infrastructure will make available some of its resources and services to other members of the resulting Ecosystem. Moreover, it will benefit from Ecosystem via a dedicated VRE giving access to an array of resources ranging from computingand storage resources of grid infrastructures to data and services.