G-SDAM – Seamless Semantic Data Interchange for Grid Computing

Electronic data interchange (EDI) is one of the main requirements in a cooperative environment, more so in an environment that is predestined to the cooperation of various companies and enterprises. The challenge to unify the heterogeneous distributed data sources of the aforementioned companies and enterprises for consistent, easy extensible and versatile data access is met with the Grid Seamless Data Access Middleware (G-SDAM). In recent years the integration of semantics to raw data was researched and demanded by many institutions and companies. Therefore future EDI mechanisms have to include semantics in the interchange process. G-SDAM provides support for the interchange of semantic data as well as it facilitates the common EDI process.