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DynamicWrappers: a rule based metadata conversion and integration system for e-Science applications Shoaib Sufi CCLRC – Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, WA4 4AD, UK. E-mail: s.a.sufi@dl.ac.uk Abstract: A need to integrate heterogeneous less man effort than bespoke solutions. Also It metadata/relational data sources on the Grid is to be noted that XSLT only deals with and in e-Science Proj ects ex ists Of ten this is transformation from XML. done in a time consuming and hard-coded way . What is p rop osed is a generic dy namic A configuration based system will thus be a conf iguration driven Grid aware system which natural fit to some of the important data initially supp orts the transf ormation of management requirements of many Grid/e- metadata f rom any Relational Schema to any Science proj ects which are aiming to federate XML Schema. Existing Transf ormation systems access to (often heterogeneous) are either manual or not f ully f eatured enough metadata/relational data via Web/Grid Services to supp ort any thing but f ixed non-recursive and XML mediation. structures as well as not being Grid aware. A conf iguration based app roach is not only amenable to f urther tool supp ort but makes 2. Architecture homogenisation to common standards require less man eff ort than besp oke solutions. A conf iguration based system will be a natural f it to some of the imp ortant data management requirements of many Grid/e-Science p roj ects. 1. Introduction A need to integrate heterogeneous metadata