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Data management is an important area of Grid research. It is concerned with the storage, access, translation and integration of data. It hopes to answer questions like:
- Where should I put my data?
- How should I get to it?
- How do I present my data in a way others will understand?
- How can I combine data from different places?
This thematic area is concerned with analysing the typical data management problems that businesses will encounter, and providing patterns and advice on effective strategies for solving these problems. It will also provide advice on which middleware is appropriate to help solve the common data management problems and links to new components which are being developed to enhance the capabilities of this middleware.
The strategy for assessing problems and improving middleware will be to examine the business case alongside the technical merit to find the important problems which should be solved. Solving the business relevant data management problems helps to ensure that the components we develop and the underlying middleware is relevant to business.
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