Understanding Information Retrieval Systems

    12 Management of Very Large        Distributed Shared Collections

Reagan W. Moore

CONTENTS

Introduction

Scientific Data Collections

Distributed Data Management Principles

Data Virtualization

Trust Virtualization

Management Virtualization

Data Management Technologies

Summary

Acknowledgments

References

INTRODUCTION

Scientific data collections are being assembled that contain the digital holdings on which future research is based. The collections are assembled by researchers from multiple institutions, and then accessed by all members of a scientific discipline. The data collections are massive in size, comprising hundreds of terabytes of data ...