Catalogue Howtos
21
BiodiversityCatalogue How-Tos Robert Haines
-
Upload
robert-haines -
Category
Science
-
view
118 -
download
4
Transcript of Catalogue Howtos
BiodiversityCatalogue How-Tos
Robert Haines
BiodiversityCatalogue Home
• Hover over the ‘s for more information!
BiodiversityCatalogue Home
• Lots of information feeds
Subscribe toupdates withan RSS reader:
Service discovery
• You do not need an account to
– Browse Services
– Search the Catalogue
• Search from the Home Page:
Search Browse Search by data
Service discovery: Browsing
Tags
Services
Filters
Service discovery: Faceted browsing
Filtered services
Filters: applied (top)and available (below)
Subscribe to these filtersFurther searching
Service discovery: Search
• Search for “workflow”
4 Services
11 Soap Operations
1 REST Endpoint
Service discovery: DetailService names
Provider information.
Supplementary annotations.
Monitoring status
Service URIs
Become a member and sign in
• The “Sign up” and “Sign in” buttons are in the top-right hand corner of the home page:
Click here to create an account.
Click here to sign in if you already have an account.
Create an account (Sign up) 1
Your email address is used as your login name. It is kept private and will never be disclosed to anyone else.
Choose a secure password.
Create an account (Sign up) 2Your name as you want people to see it.
Finish the sign up process.
Only give a public email address if you are happy for people to see it (and possibly use it).
Optional information about you.
Tick here for site and service updates via email.
Your user profile
Name and badge (if appropriate).
Private information.Not seen by others.
Edit profileFrom here.
Registering a service
Register a SOAP (WSDL) based Web Service
Register a REST based Web Service
Registering a service: SOAP 1
• Submit the Service WSDL
• Hit “Preview” to check (and add to) the information provided by the WSDL
Registering a service: SOAP 2
• Lots of information is gathered from the WSDL
And so on …
Registering a service: SOAP 3
• Lots more can be added …
Alternative names.
Links to documentation.
Categories (for Service filtering).
Tags.
Free-text description.
Registering a service: REST
Alternative names.
Links to documentation.
Categories (for Service filtering).
Tags.
Free-text description.
Base URL or Endpoint.
Service name.
Annotating services 1
• Add tags …
Start typing and tags are suggested.
Ontology support.(BioVeL domain ontologiesare in development)
More (relevant) tags makes aservice easier to find for others.
Annotating services 2
• You can add:
– Documentation links
– High level descriptions
– Usage conditions
– Costs
– Licencing
– Contact information
– Publications
– Citations
Annotating services 3
• Add example data to input/output ports …
Summary
• Anyone can browse and search
• Members can
– Register services
– Annotate any part of any service
• Names, Categories, Tags
• Descriptions
• Example data
– Get service monitoring updates
