[Myexperiment-discuss] more stuff on myExperiment Objects and semantic grid and provenance

[Carole Goble]

Hello

At the caBIG meeting I met up with Denise Warzel (responsible for the 
Data Standards Repository) and Steve Harris and Peter Maccallum (cancerGRID)

they distinguish between recording experimental data, capturing semantic 
metadata and computable semantic interoperability
They are developing with cancerGrid a simplified system. Steve Harris is 
in Manchester on 27th July.

cancerGrid have actually BUILT a semantic grid. Hurrah!  Looks REALLY 
interesting. They have built a metadata repository.
And they have built an ontology for clinical research studies -- and 
that is being done with Alan Rector at Manchester!

capturing semantic metadata
the caBIG use ISO/IEC 11179 -- they claim it is extensible and you can 
use a vocabulary to describe the relationships between components of a 
Common Data Element using a vocabulary such that (a) you can describe 
contents and (b) you can pivot on terms to search for other objects 
carrying those terms (that is like typed tag pivoting). CDE's a objects 
that move around caBIG and are exchanged, consumed and produced by 
services.
http://metadata-stds.org/11179/

https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/workspaces/VCDE/?pid=primary.2006-10-24.9953294989&sid=secondary.2006-07-07.2297866337&status=True

they distinguish between recording experimental data, capturing semantic 
metadata and computable semantic interoperability

we probably also should check out the OMG MOF stuff too. 
http://www.omg.org/mof/

Carole