Peer-To-Peer Databases for e-Science: a Biodiversity Case Study Daniela Alvarez, Ale Smukler, and Alejandro A. Vaisman   View Paper (PDF)   Return to Sistemas Peer-to-peer e Sistemas Móveis/Peer-to-peer and Mobile Systems Abstract In the last few years there has been an increasing interest in the socalled e-Science field. This poses new challenges to the database community, as the variety and distribution of the information involved leads to data representation, management, storage and access problems. In this paper, we study decentralized Peer-to-peer architectures based on the JXTA protocol, as a solution for scientific data sharing and exchange, in particular, applied to biodiversity information, with the purpose of creating a repository maintained by different parties (mainly the community of researchers on the field). Based on this idea, we present an implementation (along with preliminary testing results), introduce a data model and a query language for biodiversity databases, and show that our proposal can be easily extended to other e-Science fields. ©2006 Association for Computing Machinery