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Synchronized Content and Metadata Management in a Federation of Distributed Repositories of Chemical Learning Objects

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The paper deals with the synchronization mechanism among the servers of a federation of distributed repositories for the constant updating of the didactic-scientific material, its properties and its locations. A shared metadata database is the synchronization point of reference and it allows to improve performance in terms of searching and downloading. The proposed federation is meant to deal with a large variety of different contents though the discussed prototype implementation is concerned with scientific and educational subjects in particular. Additional elements of evaluation are the capability of enhancing collaboration and fault tolerance.

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The authors acknowledge ECTN (VEC standing committee) and the EC2E2 N 2 LLP project for stimulating debates and providing partial financial support. Thanks are due also to EGI and IGI and the related COMPCHEM VO for the use of Grid resources.

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, via Vanvitelli, 1, 06123, Perugia, Italy

    Sergio Tasso, Simonetta Pallottelli, Osvaldo Gervasi & Razvan Tanase

  2. Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, University of Genoa, via Dodecaneso, 31, 16146, Genoa, Italy

    Marina Rui

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Tasso, S., Pallottelli, S., Gervasi, O., Tanase, R., Rui, M. (2017). Synchronized Content and Metadata Management in a Federation of Distributed Repositories of Chemical Learning Objects. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2017. ICCSA 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10406. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62398-6_2

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