The paper presents a comparative analysis of data harvesting and distributed computing as complementary models of service delivery within large-scale federated digital libraries. I...
Federated digital libraries are composed of distributed, autonomous, and often heterogeneous information services but provide users with a transparent, integrated view of collected...
— Grid infrastructures are in operation around the world, federating an impressive collection of computational resources and a wide variety of application software. In this conte...
Asterios Katsifodimos, George Pallis, Marios D. Di...
—A challenge in providing scientific data services to a broad user base is to also provide the metadata services and tools the user base needs to correctly interpret and trust t...
Stephan Zednik, Peter Fox, Deborah L. McGuinness, ...