An Architecture of Semantic Desktop Data Grid

Rapid growth and spread of information technology especially network technology enables people to use computers more naturally and easily and as a result, more design data and information leave in designers' desktops. Recent advances in grid, semantic web, P2P and web services have revolutionized the way we communicate and collaborate and also make it possible to integrate desktop data. Undertaking the intersection fulfillment of these technologies on enterprise desktop enables new integrative and collaborative use of not only organizational data but also distributed, autonomous personal data on the web by fully leveraging potentially useful information sources on many desktops. In this context, we introduce SDDG (Semantic Desktop Data Grid) a P2P-semantic-grid enabled information sharing infrastructure for entire enterprise information, which wraps both organizational and personal information sources as semantic grid services and creates a semantic information interoperability environment following a P2P data coordination way. Through a discussion of fundamental scientific positions in general and approaches to information integration research in particular, a three-tier hybrid framework is presented and discussed in detail. The architecture for SDDG is an extension of our previous work ESD [1] by reflecting principles of P2P data integration in semantic grid.