CLRC eScience Centre

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CLRC e-Science Centre
Introduction into various Types of Metadata for
e-Science Kerstin Kleese -van Dam et
al k.kleese_at_dl.ac.uk
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Todays Science Environment
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The world at your fingertips
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Whats behind the scenes?
Problem Solving Environments
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Why do we need more metadata in this environment?
To describe processes and resources
To make the functionalities available for people
and machines
To automate the exchange of information
To allow the automatic discovery of
functionalities
To be able to link all the different services
together
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What kinds of metadata do we need?

• Ontology metadata
• Facility metadata
• Service metadata
• Access control metadata
• User metadata
• Instrument metadata
• Simulation Model metadata