A Semantic Metadata Catalog Service for Grid

Metadata is the information that describes the most important feature of an object. In recent years, metadata plays a more and more important role in data intensive applications. In this paper, we propose a semantic metadata catalog service, Semantic MCS. Semantic MCS has a well-organized data management model and supports the query mechanism using Ontology inference. Furthermore, we discuss the main problems that we met in real Grid applications. We propose a framework of metadata interoperation to resolve the problem of the services interoperability. And we propose a dynamic framework for metadata management for the rapid changing metadata in Grid.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: GCC
• Authors: Kewei Wei, Ming Zhang, Yaping Zhu
• Keywords: GCC 2005, Metadata, Semantic MCS, Semantic Metadata Catalog