OGF21 Schedule
The 21st Open Grid Forum - OGF21
October 15-19, 2007
Seattle Washington, USA

Monday, October 15
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
Real-time Web 2.0: Evolution of Middleware for Grid-based Instruments and Sensors (30 mins)
Donald F. (Rick) McMullen, Marlon Pierce, Carol Deng, Kia Huffman

Instruments and sensors provide observational data needed to drive the engine of discovery in science. Availability and accessibility of appropriate instrumentation for a given research programme can be a rate limiting factor in discovery. Furthermore sensors and sensor networks are playing an ever-increasing role in longitudinal studies in ecological, earth and biological sciences. The Common Instrument Middleware Architecture (CIMA) is a means of improving accessibility and usability of critical research resources, and provides application-level access to remote instruments and sensors through interface and protocol standards based on Web Services and a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach.

As a counterpoint to Web Services (but not SOA), Web 2.0 technologies show great promise for increasing the diversity and rate of production of new services as well as the accessibility and reuse of existing services. In this paper we discuss the impact of Web 2.0 technologies and applications on the evolution of the CIMA architecture and the design of RESTful services for instruments, sensors and other real-time data sources.


Location: Amphitheater
 
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