[MOBY-dev] [moby] Suggestion for new tag in Parameter (Secondary Input specification)

[Johan Karlsson]

Hi!

As Mark says, description of secondaries is something the INB have been 
requesting for a while now.

Actually, we are already capturing this information together with some 
additional information during service registration. We store this 
information in a separate database, apart from the Moby Central database.

We have recently started a new registration procedure at the INB where 
(as part of the procedure) service providers can add the following 
additional information about their services:

·    Name of the author.
·    For each input and output (primary/collection parameters), a 
description of the parameter, and a data type example.
·    For each secondary parameter, a description of the parameter and an 
example value.
·    Help file for the service (in XML format)
·    Keywords describing the service (we are working on "semantic" searches)

Maybe some of this information can be useful to the BioMoby community?

Kind regards,
Johan Karlsson

Mark Wilkinson wrote:
> Absolutely - I believe the INB had also requested this a while ago, too.
>
> Do we need to go through an RFC for this?  I hope not...
>
> If nobody objects, I'll add it to the API right away.  It should only
> take a couple of minutes to code.
>
> M
>
>
>
> On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 10:56 -0700, Paul Gordon wrote:
>   
>> Can we add an optional description field to the secondary article tag? 
>> It might help people fill it out if they have a hint *what* they're 
>> filling out besides the articleName. i.e.:
>>
>> <Parameter articleName="NameOfArticle">
>> 	<desc>This field sets the frameshift penalty in the alignment.  The higher it is set, the less likely frameshifts will be detected and corrected.</desc>
>>         <datatype>Integer|Float|String|DateTime</datatype>
>>         <default>...</default> <!-- any/all of these -->
>>         <max>...</max>         <!-- ... -->
>>         <min>...</min>         <!-- ... -->
>>         <enum>...</enum>        <!-- ... -->
>>         <enum>...</enum>        <!-- ... -->
>>   </Parameter>
>>
>> Sound reasonable?  Does this require a RFC?
>>
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