Carole Goble, the OntoGrids technical coordinator at the University of Manchester. Imagine you crash a car in Spain that you rented in France with a German-registered car driven by a Dutchman: resolving the paperwork is a major problem, Goble notes. Similarly, the lack of collaboration and communication mechanisms between insurers and other actors raises the potential for fraud.
Semantic Grid application a virtual organisation linking all actors involved could rapidly be established to settle the claim using semantically-enriched information to overcome their procedural differences and ensure they all use the same terminology. Middleware for any context The problem with the Grid that has existed to date is that it is rigid, systems arent easily configurable and there is no way to do things quickly, the technical coordinator says. In OntoGrid we are developing flexible and configurable middleware that can be reused.
Semantic-OGSA, a reference architecture that represents an evolution of the Open Grid Service Architecture (OGSA) and defines a mechanism for the explicit use of semantics in components and applications. From a business perspective, the more flexible middleware will allow companies to be more agile in finding solutions to problems as and when the need arises, and is particularly beneficial in sectors where actors are distributed. The Semantic Grid middleware could also easily be connected to existing (legacy) systems.
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