Transcript Shaping the e-future? Grids, Web Services and Digital Libraries Professor Tony Hey, Director UK e-Science Programme Dr Liz Lyon, Director UKOLN International JISC/CNI Conference June.

Shaping the e-future?
Grids, Web Services and Digital Libraries
Professor Tony Hey, Director UK e-Science Programme
Dr Liz Lyon, Director UKOLN
International JISC/CNI Conference
June 2002, Edinburgh, UK
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Part 2 Joining up the thinking
• Web Services & the Information Environment
• Unpacking the components
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Infrastructure services : registries
Semantics and knowledge technologies
Re-applying Grid concepts
Service management : autonomic computing, e-Utilities
• A new, broader, integrated vision?
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The JISC Information Environment
• “build an on-line information environment
providing secure and convenient access to a
comprehensive collection of scholarly and
educational material”
JISC Strategy 2001-2005
• Technical Architecture Study May 2001
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/distributed-systems/dner/arch/dner-arch.html
– Content providers, shared services, brokers &
aggregators, portals
– Discover: searching (Z39.50), sharing (OAI-PMH),
alerting (RSS)
– Access: resolver (OpenURL), institutional profiles
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Web Services
• Business models
– Application to application, B2C to B2B, m2m
• Global take-up
– Google Web Services APIs
– Campus services integration at UC Berkeley
– UK e-Government Interoperability Framework
(e-GIF) Vs 4.0
• Support organisations
– World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web
Services Activity http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
– Web Services Interoperability Working Group
(WS-I) http://www.ws-i.org/
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Web Services standards
• WSDL Web Services Description Language
http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl
– descriptions of Web Services
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UDDI Universal Discovery, Description & Integration
http://www.uddi.org/specification.html
– registries containing service descriptions
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SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol
http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/
– transport protocol for communication between Web Services
• Emerging standards: WSRP, WSIA, WSXL…….
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IBM Web Services model
Service
provider
WSDL
WSDL
UDDI
SOAP
Service
Service
registry
requestor
Find
WSDL UDDI
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JISC IE Web Services mapping
Service
Content providers,
aggregators,
brokers, shared
services
provider
Collection
description
service and
Service
description
service
IE service
registry?
Service
registry
Service
Find
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requestor
Portals,
aggregators,
brokers
The JISC Information Environment and Web
Services
Andy Powell and Liz Lyon
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue31/informationenvironments/
Service
Content providers,
aggregators,
brokers, shared
services
provider
Collection
description
service and
Service
description
service
IE service
registry?
Service
registry
Service
Find
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requestor
Portals,
aggregators,
brokers
Service Registries
• UDDI Web Service standard
– Global public registry
– Private registries
• JISC Information Environment registry
• Grid Service registry
– Service type
– Service instance
• Functionality
– Registries are dynamic services
– Implement searching across multiple registries
• New Web Services compliant products ?
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Metadata Schema Registries
• CORES http://www.cores-eu.net/
a forum on shared metadata vocabularies.
– Standards Interoperability Forum in November
– A Metadata Registry for the Semantic Web
Rachel Heery (UKOLN) & Harry Wagner (OCLC) D-Lib May 2002
• Metadata for Education Group (MEG)
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/education/regproj/
– Demo of registry at Workshop in September
• 2nd Joint UKOLN / NeSC workshop Autumn 2002
– focussing on exchange of practical experience
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Semantic Web architecture – Tim Berners-Lee
http://www.w3.org/2000/Talks/1206-xml2k-tbl/slide10-0.html
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Ontologies and semantics
• Semantic Web vision : a shared understanding of the
meaning of descriptions of digital content (human, m2m)
• An ontology defines the terms used to describe and
represent an area of knowledge
– classes of “things”
– relationships between things
– properties (attributes) of things
• Semantic Web and Web Services are complementary
– WWW and Web Services based on XML
– Semantic Web based on ontology languages e.g. RDF, DAML+OIL
• New Web ontology languages under development
DAML-Services, Ontology Web Language (OWL)
– http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/
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e.g.
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Knowledge and Web mining
• The application of data mining techniques to
the content, structure and usage of Web
resources
• Usage mining e.g. Amazon personal
recommendations (note privacy issues!)
• Structure mining e.g. RDN-WSE project
http://ilrt.org/discovery/2002/01/wse-rdn/
• Content mining (data) e.g. AstroGrid
developing a virtual observatory to support
exploitation of key astronomical datasets
http://www.astrogrid.org/
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Grid Services
• Persistent services e.g. a data repository
• Transient service instances which are
dynamically created through a Factory interface
and have a specified lifetime
e.g. a distributed data mining service
• How can we apply Web mining techniques to DL
resources ?
– Pattern analysis of multiple distributed video streams
– Textual analysis of virtual collections of archival
documents
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Collaborative environments
• Distributed scientific collaboration
• Collaborative Advanced Knowledge
Technologies in the Grid (CoAKTinG)
http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/akt/coakting/
– Smart spaces
– Ontologically annotated audio/video streams
– Describing “presence”
• How can we apply research experience to
Learning & Teaching environments ?
– Tutor/student/group interaction in a VLE
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Computing (e-)Utilities
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Computing on-demand
Storage on-demand
Applications on-demand
Application Service Providers (ASPs)
• Which digital library functions should we
outsource to improve efficiency ?
– Preservation and curation services
– Resolver services
– Data / learning resource repositories
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Autonomic computing
• “Technology needs to manage itself”
Irving Wladawsky-Berger, IBM
• Manifesto
Paul Horn, IBM
http://www.research.ibm.com/autonomic/manifesto/autonomic_computing.pdf
• 8 key elements e.g.
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Self-optimising
Self-configuration
Self-healing
Self-protecting
• Should we apply this approach to digital libraries?
– Improve performance by “intelligent” selection of targets
for search requests based on response times
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The e-future?
Digital Libraries
Persistent
Data
Information
Semantic
Web
Knowledge
Grids
Transient
Business
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Web Services
Transactional
……Questions?
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