call for help on semantid grid primer

[Carole Goble <carole@cs.man.ac.uk>]

Dear all
(you may have gotten an empty message with this subject (finger trouble!))

We all had a lovely time at GGF9 and our fun fun workshop Semantic Grid.
http://www.semanticgrid.org/GGF/ggf9/  for the presentation slides and 
papers.
Many of you have been enthusiastic about the meeting and generous with 
your praise. And our "yellow post-it for challenges" idea was borrowed 
by at least two other workshops :-)  Results of that on the web site 
soon as Dave has come up for air.

So now to work!!

We proposed the structure of a Semantic Grid primer. This would be a 
composite document where each section would be a (semi-)self contained 
docuument, and together the whole thing would form a definitive guide to 
semantic grids. The document would be "living" in the sense evolving and 
have a web version as well as a GGF compliant doc version.

the slides about the primer Carole gave at the meeting are at:
http://www.semanticgrid.org/GGF/ggf9/discussion.ppt

For each section head below we need two section leaders. We would also 
like a couple of volunteer overall editors (it can't all be Carole and 
Dave!)
So far the volunteers are:

Line Pouchard (Earth Systems Grid)
Mike Niemi (IBM)

er, thats it!

If we don't get many more soon we will start door-stepping individuals 
directly :-)

A quick summary of the primer:

target: Grid people (not semantic web) with Line Pouchard pressing hard 
for application stakeholders to be in there too.
deadline: next GGF summer school basis for a tutorial on semantic grid 
(June 2004, say)

1. Semantics 101   (which we hope to get from the Semantic Web 
community, but still needs a chapter leader)
2. Ontology 101    (ditto)
3. Semantic Grid vision and roadmap
4. Practical Semantic Grid
   4.1 Grid compliant knowledge services
         What would it mean for knowledge services converted to be Grid 
services with life time management, state management, and fulfil the 
standards for service level agreements of Grid service portTypes.
   4.2 Grid aware knowledge services
         The adoption of Grid Base services by Semantic Services. e.g. 
Grid replication protocols for version management and cache-coherency 
for distributed ontology services
   4.3 Knowledge aware Grid services
         e.g. Resource scheduling using agent-planning techniques or 
semantic grid registries and semantic based discovery of Grid services;
5. Semantic Science Applications
   E.g. ontology for controlling data content
6. Examples, examples, examples. Of all of it.  (this would be a 
proforma we think which we would have people on SG projects fill out)
7. Where do I find out more?

Can you please email us if you are willing to help and in what capacity. 
Carole is now at the semnatic web conference in florida where she will 
drum up support for sections 1 and 2;

We plan for a telecon/access grid session with the volunteers and those 
who will be volunteered in mid November.

Thanks for you support!!

Carole Goble and Dave De Roure
SEM-GRD co-chairs