About This Project

Service Grid Open Source Project provides information of Service Grid and open source software which use the Service Grid, and also manages the development of the software.

This site is a community site for Service Grid Open Source Project. Members of the community can post requests, proposals and questions about the software on the multilingual BBS. To join the community, create your account from "Sign up" button on the top page of the multilingual BBS. An account is activated after the administrators approve the request for the account.

Please refer to "Feedback" for requests, proposals, and bug reports. The page shows how you can post your feedback on the multilingual BBS.

For development of software, please read through "Member Roles" and "Development Process". These pages describe roles of members and code management policy of this project.

Service Grid Server Software

Service Grid Server Software is an implementation of Service Grid and has been developed by National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan. The Service Grid Server Software has been used to realize the Language Grid, which is a Service Grid for language domain. Service Grid is expected to be applied in more different domains, such as Agricultural Service Grid for providing agricultural knowledge and field information sensor as services, Education Service Grid for sharing open courseware and e-Learning systems as services, and so on.

Language Service

A language service is a Web service which enables us to access a language resource such as a machine translator and a dictionary. The Language Grid is a Service Grid for language services and can combine language services. The Language Grid is mainly used to support multilingual communication.

Language Grid Toolbox

Language Grid Toolbox (hereinafter referred to as Toolbox) is a series of multilingual communication tools which use the Language Grid. Currently the following two versions of Toolbox are available:

• XOOPS-based Community Software (This version is simply called "Toolbox")
• Language Grid Extension for MediaWiki

For requests/proposals/bug reports, please post your message on the multilingual BBS. To join the community, create your account from "Sign up" button on the top page of the multilingual BBS. An account is activated after the administrators approve the request for the account.

Contact oss-project [at] servicegrid.net for inquiry about the project (replace [at] with @).