Data-intensive Research and Analysis, Preservation Environments and the Data Grid: Tutorial agenda

 

1st session - 90 minutes

Properties of generic data management infrastructure

  Risk mitigation for loss of authenticity, integrity

  Risk mitigation for managing technology evolution

  Automation of data organization, discovery, access, manipulation

Types of data management systems

  Data collection

  Data sharing

  Data publication

  Data preservation

  Data analysis

Sources of technology

  Data grids

  Digital libraries

  Persistent archives

Example of Real-time data collection

  Roadnet real-time sensor network

Examples of data sharing environments

  Biomedical Informatics Research Network

  BaBar high energy physics data grid

  Worldwide Universities data grid

Examples of data publication environments

  Southern California Earthquake Center digital library

  DSpace digital library

Examples of data preservation environments

  NARA research prototype persistent archive

  National Science Digital Library persistent archive

Example of data intensive analysis

  Creation of mosaics of 2-Micron All Sky Survey

 

2nd session - 60 minutes

Specific requirements for data management systems

  Collection-based ownership of data

  Persistent naming

  Domain specific access mechanisms

  Risk mitigation against data loss

  Management of network latency

  Risk mitigation for managing technology evolution

  Automation of data organization, discovery, access, manipulation

  Scalability

Data analysis requirements

  Processing pipeline

  Global name spaces

  Data filtering

Digital library requirements

  Metadata creation

  Metadata organization

  Processing pipeline

Preservation requirements

  Authenticity

  Integrity

  Infrastructure independence

 

3rd session - 90 minutes

Storage Resource Broker

  Data virtualization concept

  Persistent naming

  Infrastructure independence

  Interoperability environment

  Federation of data grids

Capabilities provided by SRB

  Demonstration of digital library

  Demonstration of preservation environment

  Demonstration of real time data management