1. www.neresc.ac.uk Data and the UK e-Science Programme Paul Watson Director North-East Regional e-Science Centre School of Computing Science University of Newcastle, UK Paul Watson Director North-East Regional e-Science Centre School of Computing Science University of Newcastle, UK

2. www.neresc.ac.uk Data – major focus of UK e-science Challenges attracted key UK researchers and industry already working in this area UK Programme has many data-centric applications bioinformatics, medical, engineering,… Complex, interrelated data interpretation & integration very important

3. www.neresc.ac.uk Files Supporting Information-Driven Science Databases FilesWeb LocationQueryingNotification MetadataDatabases Workflow User Applications Information Processing locate, access, process, combine, share, alert

4. www.neresc.ac.uk UK e-Science Programme Response work on generic middleware OGSA-DAI (Tutorial Yesterday) ELDAS (Talk & Demo today) work with SRB (Talk today) …. work on data curation work on information models in application projects semantics, security…

5. www.neresc.ac.uk MyGrid (& Gold) Information Model Example Biology

6. www.neresc.ac.uk Digital Curation Centre In next 5 years e-Science projects will produce more scientific data than has been collected in the whole of human history Digital Curation Centre created to address this Sited at Edinburgh, with Glasgow, CLRC (Central Laboratories of the Research Councils) and UKOLN research into curation technologies and best practice liaise closely with research communities, data archives and libraries

7. www.neresc.ac.uk Ongoing Challenges Information integration Integrating information access and computation Security …..