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The current infrastructure proviced and maintained by the German Grid Initiative (D-Grid) primarily covers resource management and exchange at the
data level supporting mainly technical resources such as computational
capacity, data transport networks, storage resources, and management software.
The WisNetGrid project (www.wisnetgrid.org) aims to broaden the focus of
resource sharing towards the actual content, such as research and production
data, to enable interdisciplinary usage. To achieve this goal, resource sharing
is supported on different abstraction layers. First, we create an information
layer by providing a universal interface to access data on the grid independent
of the underlying grid storage system. Second, at the knowledge layer, we offer
interactive knowledge extraction and management tools that can also take
advantage of a community’s grid resources. These tools enable the user to
formulate the domain specific knowledge in different ways to ease the
interaction with the knowledge extraction process and to provide input for
automatic extraction workflow. Within this project, we work together with use
groups from the humanities and from landscaping as disparate use cases to
evaluate which advantages can be gained by using semi-automatic extraction
tools to gather and manage knowledge content.
