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

[Steffen Neumann]

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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