Portal-based knowledge environment for collaborative science.
The Knowledge Environment for Collaborative Science (KnECS) is an open-source informatics toolkit designed to enable knowledge Grids that interconnect science communities, unique facilities, data, and tools. KnECS features a Web portal with team and data collaboration tools, lightweight federation of data, provenance tracking, and multi-level support for application integration. We identify the capabilities of KnECS and discuss extensions from the Collaboratory for Multi-Scale Chemical Sciences (CMCS) which enable diverse combustion science communities to create and share verified, documented data sets and reference data, thereby demonstrating new methods of community interaction and data interoperability required by systems science approaches. Finally, we summarize the challenges we encountered and foresee for knowledge environments.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- SC
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357
- OSTI ID:
- 929241
- Report Number(s):
- ANL/CHM/JA-59040
- Journal Information:
- Concurrency Computat.: Pract. Exper., Journal Name: Concurrency Computat.: Pract. Exper. Journal Issue: 12 ; Aug. 25, 2007 Vol. 19
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- ENGLISH
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