[MOBY-l] Apologies, a hint for MIPS-Service substitutions, and an invitation

[Andreas Groscurth]

Mark wrote:
> This all brings me to my final comment - I currently have two 
> summer-students who are working on the problem of automated workflow 
> repair (i.e. finding equivalent services to fix broken workflows).  
> We're going to be inviting everyone to participate in a Moby Service 
> Annotation Jamboree later this summer.  It will be a "virtual" 
> jamboree - just come to the website.  We'll have an interface there 
> through which you can deeply annotate Moby services (inputs, outputs, 
> underlying resources, service types, authorities, etc.) with the goal 
> of improving service discovery.  I encourage all Moby users to 
> participate and improve the quality of our service annotations!  At a 
> minimum, I hope that the current service providers will visit the 
> website and annotate their own services :-)
I was wondering how you store this information ? are they mapped to the 
services/datatypes etc in the moby central database ?

Here at the mpiz we already thought about offering this feature as a 
permanent service to everyone, so everyone can tag services/datatypes 
etc. Have you ever considered such kind of things ? I recently modified 
dashboard and my local moby database to have a prototype for service 
tagging. Unfortunately i can only offer you some screenshots, but I was 
wondering if such extension could be worth considering to integrate it 
in the official moby api ? you can see the first idea at 
http://bioinfo.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/tagging2.jpg

so my suggestion is to think about a tagging system (via dashboard / web 
portal), which is permant available and allows everyone to tag moby stuff ?!

best
andreas

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