Establishing a social science Data Grid is a key component of the wider e-Social Science strategy. Current social science data infrastructure (academic and non-academic) needs to be Grid enabled in a standards compliant and sustainable way. Data service infrastructures need to be able to support multiple forms of access (i.e. single database approach) to minimise duplication of effort.
The SUM presented here has a specific focus on Grid Enabling MIMAS Services (GEMS) project that has the purpose of providing Grid enabled access to the aggregate statistics from the 2001 Census via OGSA-DAI on the National Grid Service (NGS). The advantage of the approach followed by GEMS is that it will maximise and build upon the ESRC/JISC investment in the establishment of existing data infrastructure, avoid having to maintain multiple database systems to support different forms of access and also provide a more rapid and flexible method of building Data Grids via the NGS.
This SUM has been developed by the JISC-funded e-Infrastructure Use Cases and Service Usage Models (eIUS) project ( http://engage.ac.uk/eIUS , http://www.eius.ac.uk/) that aims to help UK researchers become more aware of the e-Infrastructure services that are available and how they can be successfully used to achieve specific research goals. eIUS is one of the JISC-funded e-Infrastructure community engagement and support projects (eIUS, ENGAGE, and e-Uptake) that intend to enhance and consolidate the existing e-Infrastructure technologies and to establish sustainable communities of use.
More information about GEMS can be found at:
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