[MOBY-dev] ServiceProvider URL and Logo

[Paul Gordon]

I am personally in favour of the serviceNotes option, since this gives 
you the flexibility to
put any HTML you like (e.g. the SeqHound services display the citation 
to use). Of course, you
could have both the free-form HTML and the logo protocol, but maybe 
client software would be less
likely to show the former if the latter is a requirement...
> Hi,
>
> I would like to address an issue we had discussed a little at the meeting in 
> Vancouver, namely to enable the possibility for service providers to add 
> their url (to their homepage) and a logo.
> This was based on the suggestions from the Tigr workshop, where the people 
> wanted to have that, so if one is aggregating their service, is possible to 
> link to the origin of the service.
>
> Actually there are two ways to do so (in my opinion):
>
> 1. Add the url to the homepage and the url to a logo into the service notes 
> for each service result
>
> 2. Give the opportunity to enter this information while registering a service
>
>
> In case of 1. there are no changes needed in the API (neither perl nor java), 
> if somewant wants to use this information they have to parse it from the 
> service notes.
>
> in case of 2. the api has to change (and also all registration clients and 
> probably the database....) to  have methods to access these information and 
> to enter or store them in the service objects (or however this is done with 
> perl services)
>
> Intuitively - from a developer - I would suggest 2. because it sounds much 
> more clearer to access and to store this information. Putting it into the 
> service notes sounds more like a workaround ('ah... everything else is put 
> there') - are there any other information in there ? how it is represented 
> there ? and so on.. but I think I can see that point 1 is easier and sooner 
> to use....
>
> But I'm open for discussion. I can live with all ways :-)
>
> Best
> Andreas
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