The NERC DataGrid services
S. Latham, R. Cramer, M Grant, Philip J. Kershaw, BRYAN N LAWRENCE, Roy K Lowry, Dominic Lowe, Kevin O’Neill, Peter I. Miller, Stephen Pascoe, Matt Pritchard, Helen M. Snaith, Andrew Woolf · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences · 2008
This short paper outlines the key components of the NERC DataGrid: a discovery service, a vocabulary service and a software stack deployed both centrally to provide a data discovery portal, and at data providers to provide local portals and data and metadata services.