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Information Integration in the
Geosciences
Chaitan Baru
Program Director
Data and Knowledge Systems
SDSC
National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure
San Diego Supercomputer Center
Introduction—SDSC
• …Organized Research Unit at UC San Diego
• … leading-edge site of NPACI
• … one of the nodes in the TeraGrid. Lead the TeraGrid
Data and Operations Working Group
• … work with several application domains, e.g.
Molecular Biology, Neuroscience, Digital Sky, Earth
System Science, Environmental Science… via NPACI
thrust areas
• … also work on non-NPACI projects, including
industry, Bioinformatics, Medical Informatics…
• … lead some of the data activities in Cal-(IT)2
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Scientific Knowledge Management
Projects at SDSC
• Biomedical Informatics Research Network, BIRN (NIH)
• Integrating heterogeneous brain data
• National Virtual Observatory
• Optimizing a set of “canonical astronomy queries” in SQL
• Web service for “cross-matching” catalogs
• Joint Center for Structural Genomics, UCSD Cancer
Center
• Mining medical / bioinformatics data
• The Geosciences Network (GEON)…
• Information integration is key…IT “grand challenge”
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GEON: The Geosciences Network
• Two testbeds
• Broad range of
geoscience data
sets
• Will address IT
issues of interest
to EarthScope
objectives
Geoscience
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Ramon Arrowsmith, Arizona State University
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Maria Luis Crawford, Bryn Mawr
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Karl Flessa, University of Arizona
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Randy Keller, University of Texas, El Paso
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Alan Levander, Rice University
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Mian Liu, University of Missouri
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Charles Meertens, UNAVCO
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John Oldow, University of Idaho
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Dogan Seber, Cornell University
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Paul Sikora, University of Utah
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A.Krishna Sinha, Virginia Tech
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Robert Smith, University of Utah
CS/IT
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Mike Bailey, SDSC
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Chaitan Baru, SDSC
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Eric Frost, SDSU
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Bertram Ludaescher, SDSC
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Reagan Moore, SDSC
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Phil Papadopoulos, SDSC
Education
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Mary Marlino, DLESE
GEON IT Issues
• Prototyping a national information infrastructure for
Geosciences
• An outgrowth of NSF-sponsored workshops on Geoinformatics
• Collaborative activities on-going for about 2 years…
• Close collaboration between geoscientists and IT to
interlink databases and Grid-enable applications
• “Deep” data modeling of 4D data
• Situating 4D data in context—spatial, temporal, topic, process
• XML-based standards for data exchange
• Semantic integration of Geoscience data
• Logic-based formalisms to represent knowledge and map between
ontologies
• Begin to define a UGLS (Unified Geoscience Language Systems), a la
UMLS in medicine
• Accessing bibliographic information
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GEON IT Issues
• Learning from the BIRN project
• The GEON Grid: heterogeneous networks, compute nodes, storage
capabilities
• Deploy grid and cluster software across GEON
• SDSC SRB, ROCKS, Globus
• Leverage TeraGrid experience
• Sharing data, tools, and compute resources, SETI@home model
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GEON IT Issues
• Advanced visualization capability
• Augmented reality facilities
• Remote visualization using Visualization Center at Scripps
and SDSU Viz lab
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The Information Integration
Landscape
• Motivated by applications needs…
• Medical/Bio-informatics, Neuroscience, Geosciences, Digital
Government
• Approaches
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Data Warehouses
Database Integration
Application Integration
Semantic Data Integration
Model-based Integration
• R&D activities in collaboration with industry partners
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Data Warehousing
• Bring together data from multiple sources
• Advantages
• Provides high performance access at a single location
• Can support OLAP, decision support, data mining
• Issues
• Cannot avoid “database integration” issues, e.g. schema integration
• May not have most up-to-date data in the warehouse
• E.g.,
• SDSC: Protein Data Bank, Alliance for Cell Signaling, Joint Center
for Structural Genomics
• Cal(IT)2 High Tech Coast GIS
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Database Integration &
Application Integration
• Federate data from distributed databases and
applications
• Need not bring data to single location
• Data is up to date
• Can deal with “non-cooperating” sources
• Database integration—employs database
technology (data models and query languages)
• Application integration—employs object-oriented
programming technology (Java)
• The SDSC/Cal-(IT)2 Information Integration
Testbed
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SDSC/Cal-(IT)2 Information Integration
Testbed
Industry partners:
Enosys
ESRI
IBM DiscoveryLinks
Blue Titan
Application
Polexis
Integration
(ad hoc integration)
Clients
I2T Mediator
Spatial mediator
XML queries
XML (GML)
Technology
to automate
creation of
Web services
(“Query Set
Specification”)
WSDL
SOAP
Sociology
Workbench
Survey
data
WSDL
SOAP
WSDL
SOAP
WSDL
SOAP
ICPSR
Univ. of
Michiga
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Stats
Package
ArcIMS
ArcSDE
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Database
Integration
Spatial
mediation:
• Dealing with
differences in
resolution, scale
• Plug-in
conflation
routines
• Web workflows
and Service
“orchestration”
Semantic Integration
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Data about the “same” high-level concept, but uses different
ontologies and metadata
• E.g., Human brains and mouse brains
• E.g., Geologic, geophysics, geochemistry, geochronologic information about
plutons
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Knowledge representation, rule-based, logic-based approaches for
integration
Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN). Funded by NIH.
Integrate neuroscience brain data from multiple labs
• Human, mouse, rat brains
• Structural data and functional data
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RDF, DAML+OIL, SDSC KIND Mediator—Semantic Web
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A Geoscientist’s Information
Integration Problem
What is the distribution and U/ Pb zircon ages of A-type plutons in VA?
How about their 3-D geometry ?
How does it relate to host rock structures?
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Information
Integration
Geologic Map
(Virginia)
GeoChemical
“Complex
Multiple-Worlds”
Mediation
GeoPhysical GeoChronologic
(gravity contours) (Concordia)
Foliation Map
(structure DB)
Model-Based Integration
• Use of domain models, statistical models, probabilistic
techniques (data mining) to integrate information
• Integrate across scale in biology
• Molecular, genetic, protein, cell, tissue, organ…
• Encyclopedia of Life project at SDSC
• Annotate genes with protein information
• 17-step pipeline
• Will read and generate many TB’s of data
• Possible applications to geosciences…
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Model-based Integration in Astronomy
2MASS
SDSS Skyserver
Data analysis
Database queries, data mining
Load into
DBMS
Image Analysis
Digital images
Result
Sky Catalogs
Correlate across
Catalogs
Catalog A
Data mining
Cross-Match
Service
Data mining via Web services
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Catalog B
The SDSS Skyserver Project
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey, SDSS
• 5-year survey (2001-05)
• Northern cap of universe, 10,000 square degrees (1/2 arcsecond
resolution)
• ~200 million objects in 5 optical bands, and spectrograms of a
million objects
• Software pipeline at Fermilab
• About 400 attributes for each object + image of object
• 1st year, 80GB, 14 million objects, 50K spectra
• At end, 40TB of images, 3TB processed data
• Parallel database implementation using IBM DB2
AIX/Linux clusters
• Parallel data mining using parallel databases
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GSA Special Paper on
Geoinformatics
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Co-edited by K. Sinha and C. Baru
11 articles from geoscience authors
6 articles from IT authors
To be published early 2003
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