IRODS:Data Grids, Digital Libraries, Persistent Archives, and Real-time Data Systems
From the website:
iRODS™, the Integrated Rule-Oriented Data System, is a data grid software system developed by the Data Intensive Cyber Environments research group (developers of the SRB, the Storage Resource Broker), and collaborators. The iRODS system is based on expertise gained through a decade of applying the SRB technology in support of Data Grids, Digital Libraries, Persistent Archives, and Real-time Data Systems. iRODS management policies (sets of assertions these communities make about their digital collections) are characterized in iRODS Rules and state information. At the iRODS core, a Rule Engine interprets the Rules to decide how the system is to respond to various requests and conditions. iRODS is open source under a BSD license. (emphasis in original)
Provides an umbrella over data sources to presents a uniform view to users.
The rules and metadata don’t appear to be as granular as one expects with topic maps.
I mention it here because of its use/importance with space data and as a current research platform into sharing data.
Questions:
- Current and annotated bibliography for the project.
- What are the main strengths/weaknesses of this approach? (3-5 pages, citations)