GCP Pantheon
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Pantheon
1: a temple dedicated to all the gods
2: a building serving as the burial place of or containing memorials to the famous dead of a nation
3: the gods of a people; especially : the officially recognized gods
4: a group of illustrious persons
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Welcome to the GCP Platform Documentation. An important part of the Generation Challenge Programme (GCP)
is the development of a comprehensive, distributed crop information
platform to capture, store, analyze and disseminate GCP research
results (Subprogramme 4 (SP4)). Given the diversity of data types and
the global scope of the partnership, data exchange and information
system interoperability is a significant challenge. A cornerstone of
this implementation is the development of common standards for GCP
data. As they have been developed to date, these GCP standards consist of the following components:
This site documents these standards with their usage in end-user's applications that access and manipulate data using GCP platform compliant components . Pantheon is designed in a way that:
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It is possible to add the non-GCP data sources (created by GCP partners, or by third parties) and use them by Pantheon's end-user's applications, and
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It is possible to add the GCP data sources (contained in the Pantheon) to the non-GCP end-user's applications and to view (use, explore) them there.
This documentation shows and explains all parts of Pantheon and presents various tutorials how developers can and should use it. Sometimes it defines mandatory rules, sometimes it only suggests the best practices (recommendations) to follow. Remember:
The less freedom developers have the better interoperability they achieve
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GCP Models
The domain modeling is the central part of the GCP Pantheon. Actually, it is the only but ultimate rule - any application and data source that is part of the GCP (or even just used by GCP) must follow the GCP models.
There is one central model - called the GCP Domain Model (Bruskiewich et al. 2006) - that expresses attributes, behavior and relationships between its entities in a way that is not dependent on any specific technology (such as programming language) that is used to implement these entities. This model is very useful when talking with scientists and domain experts. Also developers get obtain here an overall understanding, the big picture.
The same principles and relationships are then expressed in several (technically) different ways, using patterns and paradigms specific for concrete technologies. These technology-specific models can (from technical reasons) slightly differ from the main domain model - but not significantly. These models are primarily used by developers, implementing GCP Pantheon.
GCP Software
GCP semantics standards - GCP Domain
Model and Ontologies - in conjunction with GCP Application Programming
Interface (API) standards, are defining a GCP Crop Information Platform
of GCP aware applications and components.
A Pantheon Component Inventory is available, to show graphically, how many of these components exist and how they are interconnected.
GCP Platform Components
There are three major types of components in Pantheon:
For more information on these components please refer to the section on GCP Platform Compliant Components
Tutorials
Here are several tutorials on Pantheon. We suggest you read first the tutorials on the Core Pantheon components. The remaining tutorials concentrate on specific issues which may only be of interest to those working with specific technologies or parts of Pantheon.
Core Pantheon Tutorials
Tutorials on optional Pantheon components
References
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