Infrastructure resources are described in terms of resource templates, annotated with appropriate metadata.
In the business category, the structure, planning process, technology, and the characteristics of the functional areas resources are described.
Resource Publication and Discovery: Once resources are described, their related information is advertised and dynamically discovered by different entities wishing to make use of those resources.
There are similarities between the Specification Factory and intercloud research; for example, in[Bernstein et al.], cloud resources are described using semantic web techniques.
Resources are described using the IUGONET/SPASE data model,79 expressed in XML with the XML documents managed by DSpace.80 New resources and documents can be registered, and every single resource entity is referenced by a unique identifier.
The OpenTox framework integrates both technologies into a distributed web services framework, where both data and processing resources are described by ontologies: either existing ones, or developed within the project.
Under the biophysical model synaptic resources are described as being effective, inactive, or recovered, and the fraction of resources in each state evolves according to kinetics that depend on the times of recent presynaptic spikes.
The data from both resources are described separately below.
In addition, the method of sampling and resources are described in this section as well.
Access to these resources is described at the website of the Division of Comparative Medicine (currently part of the National Center for Research Resources but soon to be moved into the Office of the NIH Director).
