PODD

PODD is the Phenomics Ontology Driven Data repository. It is a semantic web enabled research data and metadata repository. PODD is designed to utilise an OWL/RDFS derived ontology as its data management schema. In the PODD schema we define conceptual metadata objects and their relationships. The PODD software then handles the instantiation of these concepts as metadata objects in RDF. This approach gives PODD a unique extensibility as the domain knowledge is entirely captured in the ontology (as it should be) and the operational aspects of the system (e.g. screen rendering, service inputs/outputs, etc) are derived purely from the content of the ontology. This means PODD is not just a repository for Phenomics, but is adaptable for any research data management requirements.

A key feature of PODD is the ability to manage high volume and high resolution heterogeneous datasets in a Project structure. This in turn supports collaboration around the data, data discovery, analysis and data publishing.

More information is available in the PODD Project Overview

PODD Instances

Currently PODD is deployed on behalf of the  Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF) and the  Australian Phenomics Network (APN)

The following implementations of PODD are available to limited public access:
 APPF Test Instance
 APPF Production Instance
 APN Production Instance

PODD Publications

Y-F. Li, G. Kennedy, F. Davies, P. Wu and J. Hunter,  ''An ontology-centric architecture for extensible scientific data management systems'', Future Generation Computer Systems, In Press, Available online 8 July 2011.

Y-F. Li, G. Kennedy, F. Davies and J. Hunter,  ''PODD - Towards An Extensible, Domain-agnostic Scientific Data Management System'', IEEE eScience 2010. Brisbane, Australia, December 8 - 10, 2010.

Y-F Li, G. Kennedy, F. Davies and J. Hunter,  ''Towards A Semantic & Domain-agnostic Scientific Data Management System'', Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic Repositories for the Web (SERES-2010). ISWC, Shanghai, China, November 7, 2010.

Y-F. Li, G. Kennedy, F. Davies and J. Hunter,  ''PODD: An Ontology-driven Data Repository for Collaborative Phenomics Research'', International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICADL). Gold Coast, Australia, June 21 - 25, 2010.

Project Management Workspace

The project management workspace contains operational details for the NeAT funded PODD development project. If you have any queries please contact the project manager at gavin.kennedy@….

Current Builds

Current Builds

Source Code

PODD is now available as an open source resource at  github

Deployment Notes

Implementation and Usage Notes

Development Notes

Third Party Software

The PODD project utilises YourKit for performance profiling.

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Australian Phenomic Network Instance

Use Case

Related Projects

 AMHS Project Website AMHS stands for ANDS HOPS and is a shorthand title for the ANDS EIF funded project Enhanced Metadata Capture for Sustainable Management, Sharing and Re-use of APN Histopathology Research Data.

 Atlas of Living Australia The ALA project will develop a biodiversity data management system which will link Australia’s biological knowledge with its scientific and agricultural reference collections and other custodians of biological information.

Project Contacts

Contacts

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