How does TripCom relate to cloud computing?
TripCom provides a Web scale infrastructure for managing distributed semantic data. The spaces concept of TripCom provides an abstraction medium that virtualizes the distributed semantic repositories and decouples its clients from the storage facilities and protocols of the data providers. In that sense, TripCom delivers a first version of a semantic data cloud, also termed the knowledge cloud [7]. With its support for coordination of distributed applications and services, and through the integration of Web service technologies, TripCom provides even more than a cloud for semantic artifacts. TripCom exploits the fundamental building blocks of a (semantic) service cloud.
