OGF Data WG
OGF Data is a working group of The Open Grid Forum (OGF). The OGF community consists of thousands of individuals in industry and research, representing over 400 organizations in more than 50 countries. They work to accelerate adoption of grid computing worldwide, believing that grids will lead to new discoveries, new opportunities, and better business practices. The scope of the OGF Data Working Group is to produce an overall data architecture for OGSA (Open Grid Services Architecture). It aims at identifying message patterns and interfaces that form part of that architecture. Where possible, it plans to use existing specifications to form appropriate parts of this architecture, liaising with the groups defining those specifications to encourage them to fit into the overall OGSA picture. Where existing specifications are not available, the Working Group will encourage the creation of new groups to fill the gaps.
D4Science is participating to the OGF community, being strongly interested in driving the rapid evolution and adoption of applied distributed computing, critical to develop new, innovative and scalable applications and infrastructures. D4Science people attended OGF23 (Barcelona, 2-6 June 2008), one of the largest and most important events in the Grid area held this year, featuring an extensive community program for those interested in learning about Grid and distributed computing technologies. In this event, the D4Science Project Director and Technical Director participated in the "Digital Repositories - Interoperability Using Grid Technologies" session by presenting the D4Science vision and outcomes. During this session, a decision was taken to initiate a collaboration between some of the participants (including D4Science members) and the members of the OGF Data WG. This collaboration will be dedicated to specifically address how federated repositories should relate to federated storage.
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