[MOBY-dev] Human Readable Registry on the Web ?

[Franck Tanoh]

Hello everybody, 

The BioCatalogue (www.biocatalogue.org) team is proud to announce that the
main portal for the project will be launched during ISMB/ECCB 2009, which
takes place in Stockholm, Sweden between June 28 - July 2nd. (Please see:
http://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2009/). There will be a demo for the
BioCatalogue during Technical Track session TT41, which will take place on
Wednesday July 1st from 2:45pm - 3:10 pm in Room C8. There will also be a
poster which will be presented during the poster session of the conference. 

The BioCatalogue will provide a centralised registry of curated Life Science
web services. BioCatalogue will also act as a place where the community
can find contacts and meet the experts and maintainers of these services.
For more information about the project: http://www.biocatalogue.org/wiki  

If you are a developer or a consumer of Web Services, this is one session
you shouldn't miss during ISMB/ECCB 2009.

BioCatalogue is a BBSRC funded project [BB/F01046X/1, BB/F010540/1] and has
been running since 1st June 2008. The project is a joint venture between the
EMBL-EBI (led by Rodrigo Lopez) and the myGrid project at the University of
Manchester (led by Carole Goble).

The BioCatalogue team


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-biocatalogue at listserv.manchester.ac.uk
[mailto:owner-biocatalogue at listserv.manchester.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Jiten
Bhagat
Sent: 11 June 2009 14:24
To: Core developer announcements
Cc: BIOCATALOGUE at listserv.manchester.ac.uk
Subject: Re: [MOBY-dev] Human Readable Registry on the Web ?

Hi Steffen,

Just to add to Carole's email - what you'll see now is the beta site
that we are preparing for a public launch at ISMB at the end of this
month. So far, we have harvested some BioMoby services from SeekDa, but
we intend to have better integration and harvesting of BioMoby services
by Q4 of this year.

Check out our roadmap
(http://www.biocatalogue.org/wiki/doku.php?id=public:roadmap) and get in
touch, if you're interested :-)

Thanks,
Jits


Carole Goble wrote:
> Steffen
>
> http://beta.biocatalogue.org/services/search?q=biomoby
>
> has 181 biomoby services registered. we would welcome updates to the
> metadata!!!
> we launch the biocatalogue at ISMB
>
> Carole
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> There is an itch I have since I got to know Moby:
>> I'd like to *quickly* browse available services without fireing up
>> the Dashboard. Or, maybe I'd like to tell someone "we have written
>> this super-cool BioMoby service", and point them to a URL with a
>> nicely formatted Name and Description of the service.
>> * The serviceList is missing the both the description
>>   and some <a name="ipb-halle"> to point to our services
>>   http://biomoby.org/cgi-bin/serviceList, same with
>> http://moby.ucalgary.ca/moby/ValidateService
>>
>> * The WSDL at e.g.
>> http://biomoby.org/services/wsdl/ipb-halle.de/MassBank_unique_DBLinks
>>   is not really human readable.
>>
>> * The RDF at http://moby.ucalgary.ca/RESOURCES/MOBY-S/ServiceInstances
>>   is neither human readable, nor can I point to my service
>>
>> * GBwrose can't easily be linked to with any search parameters,
>>   and anyway offers way too much functionality for my purpose
>>
>> Did I miss anything obvious ? I'd expect that a nicely formatted
>> web accessible registry overview (with occasional visits
>> by google et al) could boost public visibility of BioMoby.
>>
>> Yours,
>> Steffen
>>
>>
>
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