Abstract

The Expert Opinion department piece by David De Roure and James Hendler,“E-Science: The Grid and the Semantic Web,” articulates how grid computing and Semantic Web technology must be brought together to enable future scientific endeavors. Because of their need for high-performance computing resources, many scientists are drawn to grid computing as the infrastructure to support data management and analysis across sites and organizations. Grids provide basic facilities for robust, efficient file management, transfer, and sharing, and they support distributed computation by managing the execution of complex job workflows. Not yet a decade old, grid computing started to build from the bottom up and is already confronting the need for a more knowledgerich infrastructure to address the challenges that multidisciplinary large-scale science raises. Although coming from a different direction, the Semantic Web vision also was motivated by the need to support scientific collaboration. By enabling transparent document sharing, metadata annotations, and semantic integration, it addresses multidis-

Date

January 1, 2004

Authors

David De Roure, Yolanda Gil, James A Hendler

Journal

IEEE Intelligent Systems

Volume

19

Issue

01

Pages

24-25

Publisher

IEEE Computer Society