GS3: A Knowledge Management Architecture for Collaborative Geologic Sequestration Modeling

Conference · Sun Jan 10 04:00:00 EST 2010

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2010.217· OSTI ID:986264

Gorton, Ian; Black, Gary D; Schuchardt, Karen L; Sivaramakrishnan, Chandrika; Wurstner, Signe K; Hui, Peter SY

Modern scientific enterprises are inherently knowledge-intensive. In general, scientific studies in domains such as groundwater, climate, and other environmental modeling as well as fundamental research in chemistry, physics, and biology require the acquisition and manipulation of large amounts of experimental and field data in order to create inputs for large-scale computational simulations. The results of these simulations must then be analyzed, leading to refinements of inputs and models and further simulations. In this paper we describe our efforts in creating a knowledge management platform to support collaborative, wide-scale studies in the area of geologic sequestration. The platform, known as GS3 (Geologic Sequestration Software Suite), exploits and integrates off-the-shelf software components including semantic wikis, content management systems and open source middleware to create the core architecture. We then extend the wiki environment to support the capture of provenance, the ability to incorporate various analysis tools, and the ability to launch simulations on supercomputers. The paper describes the key components of GS3 and demonstrates its use through illustrative examples. We conclude by assessing the suitability of our approach for geologic sequestration modeling and generalization to other scientific problem domains

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 986264
• Report Number(s): PNNL-SA-67060
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

58 GEOSCIENCES
97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING
CARBON SEQUESTRATION
Carbon Sequestration
G CODES
GEOLOGIC MODELS
Geologic Sequestration
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
Knowledge Management
Scientific Data Management
Semantic Wiki