Reference framework for distributed repositories [Elektronische Ressource] : towards an open repository environment / vorgelegt von Andreas Aschenbrenner

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Zentrum für Informatik Reference Framework for Distributed Repositories – Towards an Open Repository Environment Dissertation zur Erlangung des mathematisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Doktorgrades "Doctor rerum naturalium" der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen vorgelegt von Andreas Aschenbrenner Wien, Österreich Göttingen 2009 Referent: Prof.Dr. Bernhard Neumair Korreferent: Prof.Dr. Thomas Breuel Tag der mündlichen Prüfung: 25. November 2009 AbstractOur notion of IT infrastructure is changing dramatically. We used to be happy withjust a power plug for our desktops – today, many of us can hardly imagine a daywithout Internet access. Data centres provide storage and other dedicated services tolarge organizations – today, anybody can access such services in the cloud. Gridtechnologies offer a complex environment for compute-intense applications ...however,we still lack a simple, yet trustworthy environment for curating, semantically modelling,and sharing file-based information.This thesis develops the foundational concepts for such an environment, and it buildson a class of systems stemming from scholarly communications called “digitalrepositories”.