CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES GEON IT Advances: ⁃ Data Integration ⁃ GEON Workbench ⁃ Scientific Workflows Bertram Ludäscher Kai Lin Efrat Jaeger San Diego Supercomputer Center University of California, San Diego

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES2 The Problem: Scientific Data Integration or: … from Questions to Queries …

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES3 Information Integration Challenges: S 4 Heterogeneities Systems Integration Systems Integration – platforms, devices, data & service distribution, APIs, protocols, …  Grid middleware technologies + e.g. single sign-on, platform independence, transparent use of remote resources, … Syntax & Structure Syntax & Structure – heterogeneous data formats (one for each tool...) – heterogeneous data models (RDBs, ORDBs, OODBs, XMLDBs, flat files, …) – heterogeneous schemas (one for each DB...)  Database mediation technologies + XML-based data exchange, integrated views, transparent query rewriting, … Semantics Semantics – fuzzy metadata, terminology, “hidden” semantics, implicit assumptions, …  Knowledge representation & semantic mediation technologies + “smart” data discovery & integration + e.g. ask about X (‘mafic’); find data about Y (‘diorite’); be happy anyways!

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES4 Information Integration Challenges: S 5 Heterogeneities Synthesis of analysis pipelines, integrated apps & data products, … Synthesis of analysis pipelines, integrated apps & data products, … – How to make use of these wonderful things & put them together to solve a scientist’s problem?  Scientific Problem Solving Environments  GEON Portal and Workbench (“scientist’s view”) + ontology-enhanced data registration, discovery, manipulation + creation and registration of new data products from existing ones, …  GEON Scientific Workflow System (“engineer’s view”) + for designing, re-engineering, deploying analysis pipelines and scientific workflows + e.g., creation of new datasets from existing ones, dataset registration,…

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES5 Ontology-Enabled Application Example: Geologic Map Integration Show formations where AGE = ‘Paleozic’ (without age ontology) Show formations where AGE = ‘Paleozic’ (without age ontology) Show formations where AGE = ‘Paleozic’ (with age ontology) Show formations where AGE = ‘Paleozic’ (with age ontology) +/- a few hundred million years domain knowledge domain knowledge Knowledge representation AGE ONTOLOGY Nevada

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES6 Querying by Geologic Age …

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES7 Querying by Geologic Age: Result

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES8 Querying by Chemical Composition … (GSC)

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES9 Querying by Chemical Composition: Results

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES10 Querying w/ British Rock Classification (BRC) Uses a GSC  BRC inter-ontology articulation mapping

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES11 British Rock Classification Query: Results Uses a GSC  BRC inter-ontology articulation mapping

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES12 Need for Knowledge-enabled Integration A geologist analyzing chemical data from a pluton finds no recognizable correlation between variables. A geologist analyzing chemical data from a pluton finds no recognizable correlation between variables. – What possible scenarios can he examine to understand this heterogeneity? Measured ages also show a scatter Measured ages also show a scatter – What is the significance of the observed spread in measure time? GeolAgeDB GeoChemDB DataTables  Knowledge Representation Research: concept maps & ontologies process maps & ontologies semantic types … to facilitate (even) “smarter” tools

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES13 A Prerequisite: Resource Registration (1a) Register ontologies – geologic age; rock classifications (GSC, BGS), seismology; … (1b) optionally: register inter-ontology articulations – e.g. GSC ontology  BGS ontology (2a) Item-level dataset registration – ADN metadata; other controlled vocabularies & ontologies (e.g. geologic age timescale (USGS), SWEET (NASA), …) (2b) Item-detail registration – e.g. associate values in a column with a concept (3) Use ontology-based query UI / application – e.g. query by geologic age and chemical composition

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES14 Demonstration Preview NOTE: A technology demonstration, not a content demonstration (vocabulary, ontology, maps, …) demonstration (vocabulary, ontology, maps, …) 1. Ontology Registration (geologicAge.owl) 2. Dataset Registration (myShapeFiles.zip) 3. Item-Level Association (1  2) 4. GEONsearch metadata, spatial, temporal, concept-based 5. GEONworkbench use of workspace e.g. composing new maps from existing ones … resume with GEON workflow overview

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES15 GEONmiddleware Demonstration Preview myOntology.owl myDataset.foo metadata User Access (via Portal) Gazetteer, DLESE, … Geologic Age, Chronos, … external services GEONsearch Search condition(s) spatial temporal concept Log GEONworkbench GEON Workspace (user) User actions add delete manipulate GEON Catalog ResourceRegistration SRB Client Access (via web services) Other distributed apps Kepler, DLESE, …

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES16 Dataset to Ontology Registration (Item-level) Domain Knowledge Ontologies Arizona 16 CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES

17 GEON Search: Concept-based Querying  Portal Demonstration

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES18 Scientific Problem Solving Environments GEON Portal and Workbench (“scientist’s view”) GEON Portal and Workbench (“scientist’s view”)  previous demonstration Kepler Workflow System (“engineer’s view”) Kepler Workflow System (“engineer’s view”) – for (semi-)automating “scientific workflows” and “analysis pipelines” – some features: … low-level plumbing to high-level conceptual flows … connect reusable components (“actors”, “boxes”) to form apps abstraction via nesting of subworkflows into composite actors deploy automated workflows on the Grid and/or with custom Uis – demonstrations available (“Kepler2Go-1.  ” CD for Summer Institute)

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES19 A Kepler Scientific Workflow 19 CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES component (actor) libraries canvas for design and execution monitoring canvas for design and execution monitoring inline comments

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES20 Translating query xml response to web service xml input format. worldImage XML SOAP response Look Inside Sample GEON Dataset Extraction & Processing

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES GEON Dataset Registration Annotation form

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES GEON Dataset Registration validation Registering ADN metadata Metadata display

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES Putting it all together …

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES24 GEON Workflows & KEPLER (next week) (now) 24 CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES HPC workflow

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES GEON IT Advances: ⁃ Data Integration ⁃ GEON Workbench ⁃ Scientific Workflows Bertram Ludäscher Kai Lin Efrat Jaeger San Diego Supercomputer Center UC San Diego E N D

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES26 Related Publications Semantic Data Registration and Integration Semantic Data Registration and Integration On Integrating Scientific Resources through Semantic Registration, S. Bowers, K. Lin, and B. Ludäscher, 16th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM'04), June 2004, Santorini Island, Greece. On Integrating Scientific Resources through Semantic RegistrationSSDBM'04 A System for Semantic Integration of Geologic Maps via Ontologies, K. Lin and B. Ludäscher. In Semantic Web Technologies for Searching and Retrieving Scientific Data (SCISW), Sanibel Island, Florida, A System for Semantic Integration of Geologic Maps via OntologiesSCISW Towards a Generic Framework for Semantic Registration of Scientific Data, S. Bowers and B. Ludäscher. In Semantic Web Technologies for Searching and Retrieving Scientific Data (SCISW), Sanibel Island, Florida, Towards a Generic Framework for Semantic Registration of Scientific DataSCISW The Role of XML in Mediated Data Integration Systems with Examples from Geological (Map) Data Interoperability, B. Brodaric, B. Ludäscher, and K. Lin. In Geological Society of America (GSA) Annual Meeting, volume 35(6), November The Role of XML in Mediated Data Integration Systems with Examples from Geological (Map) Data Interoperability Semantic Mediation Services in Geologic Data Integration: A Case Study from the GEON Grid, K. Lin, B. Ludäscher, B. Brodaric, D. Seber, C. Baru, and K. A. Sinha. In Geological Society of America (GSA) Annual Meeting, volume 35(6), November Semantic Mediation Services in Geologic Data Integration: A Case Study from the GEON Grid Query Planning and Rewriting Query Planning and Rewriting Processing First-Order Queries under Limited Access Patterns, Alan Nash and B. Ludäscher, Proc. 23rd ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS'04) Paris, France, June Processing First-Order Queries under Limited Access PatternsPODS'04 Processing Unions of Conjunctive Queries with Negation under Limited Access Patterns, Alan Nash and B. Ludäscher., 9th Intl. Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT'04) Heraklion, Crete, Greece, March 2004, LNCS Processing Unions of Conjunctive Queries with Negation under Limited Access PatternsEDBT'04 Web Service Composition Through Declarative Queries: The Case of Conjunctive Queries with Union and Negation, B. Ludäscher and Alan Nash. Research abstract (poster), 20th Intl. Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'04) Boston, IEEE Computer Society, April Web Service Composition Through Declarative Queries: The Case of Conjunctive Queries with Union and NegationICDE'04

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES27 Related Publications Scientific Workflows Scientific Workflows Kepler: An Extensible System for Design and Execution of Scientific Workflows, I. Altintas, C. Berkley, E. Jaeger, M. Jones, B. Ludäscher, S. Mock, 16th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM'04), June 2004, Santorini Island, Greece. Kepler: An Extensible System for Design and Execution of Scientific WorkflowsSSDBM'04 Kepler: Towards a Grid-Enabled System for Scientific Workflows, Ilkay Altintas, Chad Berkley, Efrat Jaeger, Matthew Jones, Bertram Ludäscher, Steve Mock, Workflow in Grid Systems (GGF10), Berlin, March 9th, Kepler: Towards a Grid-Enabled System for Scientific WorkflowsWorkflow in Grid Systems (GGF10) An Ontology-Driven Framework for Data Transformation in Scientific Workflows, S. Bowers and B. Ludäscher, Intl. Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS'04), March 25-26, 2004 Leipzig, Germany, LNCS An Ontology-Driven Framework for Data Transformation in Scientific WorkflowsDILS'04 A Web Service Composition and Deployment Framework for Scientific Workflows, I. Altintas, E. Jaeger, K. Lin, B. Ludaescher, A. Memon, In the 2nd Intl. Conference on Web Services (ICWS), San Diego, California, July 2004.ICWS

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES Additional Material (for questions etc)

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES29 Multi-Hierarchical Rock Classification System (GSC) … a target ontology (after conversion to OWL) for geologic map registration … Composition Genesis Fabric Texture

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES30 Inside Ontology-Enabled Map Integration User: “Show formations from Cenozoic!” Query Rewriting QuaternaryTertiary Cenozoic Age Ontology Arizona Montana WestTertiaryTkgmQuaternaryQ ……… QgQuaternary………TwpTertiary……… TwlTertiary……… PERIOD FORMATIONLITHOLOGYTkgmQ Qg Twp Twl … PERIOD Color Definition Map Rendering select FORMATION where AGE=“Tertiary” or AGE=“Quaternary” ABBREV

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES31 Data Source Wrapping and Integration Arizona Colorado Utah Nevada Wyoming New Mexico Montana East Idaho Montana West Formation… Age… Formation…Age… Formation…Age… Formation…Age… Formation…Age… Formation…Age… Formation…Age… …Formation…Age …Composition …Fabric …Texture …Formation…Age …Composition …Fabric …Texture ABBREV PERIOD NAME PERIOD TYPE TIME_UNIT FMATN PERIOD NAME PERIOD NAME FORMATION PERIOD FORMATION LITHOLOGY AGE andesitic sandstone Livingston formation Tertiary- Cretaceous

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES32 Gravity Modeling Design Workflow Idea: Comparing observed & synthetic gravity models Idea: Comparing observed & synthetic gravity models Steps: Steps: – Extracting and merging gravity depths from heterogeneous data sources for a Lat/Lon bounding box (databases, web services). – Projecting and interpolating data sources into the same coordinate systems. – Differencing observed and synthetic models. – Displaying Differential raster image.

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES33 Grid Interpolation Interpolating queried gravity data on the grid and displaying it using a color schema. Interpolating queried gravity data on the grid and displaying it using a color schema. Currently IDW interpolation algorithm supported. Future plans: Minimum Curvature, TIN, Kriging and Spline. Currently IDW interpolation algorithm supported. Future plans: Minimum Curvature, TIN, Kriging and Spline. Output: either ascii x,y,z,p or ESRI ascii grid format. Output: either ascii x,y,z,p or ESRI ascii grid format. Display: using global mapper service. Display: using global mapper service.

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES34 Gravity Modeling Design Workflow