This is a one-hour video recording of the presentation of Carole Goble at the KnowledgeWeb summer school 2005. It comprises either the video synchronized with the slides (but requires Quicktime, hence Windows or MacOS, otherwise the slides have to be switched manually).

Table of Contents:

A love match? or A marriage of convenience ? The Groom Quantity explosion Sharing expensive resources more effectively, on demand Collaboratory Building Global Knowledge Communities Virtual Organisations Grid Computing characteristics Avaki Properties of VOs Partnership SLA and VO Life Cycle 50,000 feet! What is a Grid? BIRN Lots of Grids! Grid Middleware The Grid discovers Web Services Open Grid Services Architecture ongoing since early 2002 WSRF & WS-Notification WSRF is the instruction set of the Grid Thierry Priol EGEE OGSA Data Services Myths and Truths So what would the Grid get from a marriage with the Semantic Web? Grid Middleware Enables Resource Sharing Grid infrastructure driven by metadata Knowledge permeates the Grid Metadata - a way to deal with aspects Virtual Organizations and Semantics Grid Reality The ongoing convergence ... The Semantic Grid is ... Problems Agreement ? VO Security Policy Grid Service Discovery and Registries Provenance and annotation Consuming Semantic Metadata knowledge advisor integrated with the domain script editor Translation Service Unicore<->GLUE mapping real time discussions/group sense making GEON: data annotation Semantic Annotation EarthSciencesGrid VO Ontology So what gets the Gridders excited? How will they live together? What does this mean architecturally? Semantic Descriptions Ontology as an OGSA-DAI Realization From Grid to Semantic Grid An ontology for WSRF Properties for Virtual Organisations A marriage is a partnership Yolandas comments Requirements of an Agent Platform Hey! Lets use Grid Services! Requirements Addressed Isn't this all Semantic Web Technologies? ... BioDASH Bridging Chemistry and Molecular Biology Collaboratory for Multi-Scale Chemical Science An engagement? A perfect couple The families Building Bridges Semantic Grid courtship The Engagement Party The Engagement Party goes on into the night A marriage is a VO, and needs negotiation too! Divorce??? Is the bride mature enough for marriage? Summary