catalogue howtos

BiodiversityCatalogue How-Tos

Robert Haines

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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

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Create an account (Sign up) 1

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Your user profile

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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