title: The NERC DataGrid services.
abstract: This short paper outlines the key components of the NERC DataGrid: a discovery service, a vocabulary service and a software stack deployed both centrally to provide a data discovery portal, and at data providers to provide local portals and data and metadata services.
authors.affiliation: STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot OX11 0QX, UK.
authors.forename: S E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Latham
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cramer
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Grant
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kershaw
authors.forename: B N
authors.initials: BN
authors.lastname: Lawrence
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lowry
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lowe
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: O'Neill
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pascoe
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pritchard
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Snaith
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Woolf
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D003628:Database Management Systems / Q000639:trends*; D016208:Databases, Factual / Q000639:trends*; D004463:Ecology / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000639:trends*; D020407:Internet; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface