Grid Information Retrieval (GIR-WG)

Grid Information Retrieval (GIR) is a GGF initiative, within the Information Systems and Performance (ISP) Working Area.

The GIR WG will establish a specific set of requirements, an architecture, and detailed specifications for a particular Information Retrieval (IR) system on the OGSA Grid.
GIR will provide document collection management, indexing/searching, and query processing services to OGSA grid users and applications.

GRACE and GIR have a similar approach regarding architecture, in particular share the same attitude towards GRID invocation and WSRF initiative.

While GRACE more powerful as far as Multilingualism and Semantics / Ontologies are concerned, GIR is more aligned with GGF/OASIS evolution.

By the the end of project complete gap analysis between GRACE and Grid IR will be provided.

More information on the WG working area: https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/gir-wg.

Documents

GRACE Position Paper - Information Retrieval on the Grid - September 2004 ( PDF)