[seek-web] Re: Development of Seek Web (public beta 2) moved to new Linux box

[Deana Pennington]

Really like the way the website is looking! A few comments for now...

Home page: Love the glossary…great idea. Need to expand this, and make 
the links consistent across the website. Need a SEEK logo (still). My 
suggestion is that we use the Kepler pipeline logo, but add some ecology 
clipart to represent analysis for ecology. Other ideas? Footer should 
include logos for NSF, LTER, NCEAS, etc.

Education: Like the organization. Like the 3 online courses. Under 
Informatics tools, shouldn’t this also include links for other kinds of 
tutorials, such as tutorials that we might do at SDSC?

Opportunites. We should definitely send out a plea for information from 
everyone on the project. Seems like they should all have edit access to 
the publication page, and be able to add entries themselves, but I can 
also see where you might want to keep some control over it.

Tools: seems like Sparrow should be here. Also GRASS GIS. Yes on R; I 
don’t know on MySQL. There is a website for Growl that we can link to, 
but we should make sure we’re going to use it before linking it. I 
believe Sergei came up with a separate “ontology-for-dummies” tool that 
we might want to link to.


Obviously needs some pictures to liven it up....

Steve: I don't think I ever got a logon from you (or I've forgotten it). 
Please send me a logon, and I'll help work on this.

Deana


Samantha Romanello wrote:

> Hi Matt
>
> I have been working with steve on the content and I think we are both 
> in need of some direction and assistance in certain areas: 
> specifically: tools and data (specifically what tools we would like to 
> highlight and some question like is Mysql appropriate to suggest for 
> database solutions) and the opportunities section (specifically we 
> would like individuals to provide additional information about: 
> upcoming conferences, grants, jobs that could be placed on the site; a 
> list of their publications relevant to SEEK and even current copies of 
> presentations (like those from the e-science meeting) that could be 
> added to the site. I was thinking that for the opportunities and 
> document sections (i.e., information that we may not be privy to) we 
> can email team members asking for this information and have them edit 
> a private wiki themselves and then we (steve or I) can edit and 
> release to the live site (this may be premature as we don't have live 
> site) but am not sure if this approach is something that you (pl) were 
> thinking of? Not quite sure about how to go about the tools.
>
> Once we get some of the look and feel issues agreed upon I would like 
> to create a template for power point presentations to create a 
> consistent unified "image" for outreach and education purposes. Also 
> in terms of education....Dan Higgins mentioned that down loadable 
> applets (I am assuming non-editable) could be created to highlight 
> some of the kepler products seek dev have created -- and I think those 
> would be great additions to the site.
>
> Thanks for the comments and I apologize in advance if you receive this 
> message twice...
> Have a great day
> samantha
>
>
>
> Matt Jones wrote:
>
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>> Thanks for the web-site update. We missed you in Edinburgh, but we'll 
>> hopefully get to meet sometime sooner than later.
>>
>> The site has matured a ton -- its looking nice, and I like the 
>> content additions you have done. We need to work on some of the 
>> visual appeal (we need a few pictures at least), but I like what 
>> you've got. I managed to edit some pages without crashing my browser, 
>> so it looks like you solved that problem. Thanks.
>>
>> Once we're ready to go we'll need to migrate the current Wiki content 
>> to the new site. Could you be sure to review all of the content at 
>> "http://seek.speciesanalyst.net" and make sure there is a sensible 
>> spot for it on the new seek web site? Most of it is internal project 
>> collaboration notes, so should not be too prominent on the seek site. 
>> Maybe it could go under "About SEEK|Teams", or maybe a specific 
>> project intranet area? I'm open to suggestions. Will those wiki pages 
>> move easily (ie, do they use the same wiki syntax) or will they need 
>> to be converted somehow?
>>
>> I think the site is close to being ready to be deployed. We need some 
>> more content work, and will need to install it on 
>> seek.ecoinformatics.org (a linux box) so that the URL doesn't change. 
>> What are the requirements for the installation? We currently have 
>> apache and tomcat running on that server -- need anything else?
>>
>> We're going to want to create an EcoGrid portal for finding data from 
>> the EcoGrid. I was hoping you could take the lead on developing the 
>> web UI for this, so you might consider how it would fit into the wiki 
>> framework (most of the UI will need to be generated from a servlet or 
>> something). An evolving developer's interface, not at all intended 
>> for end-users, to EcoGrid is here for your reference 
>> (http://129.237.201.166:8080/axis/registry.jsp). Looks like its down 
>> right now but Rod Spears can turn it back on for you.
>>
>> Can you produce a brief summary of what remains to be done before we 
>> can deploy the site? Once that stuff is done we should send 
>> explicitly ask for feedback from seek-web and then deploy it after 
>> addressing any concerns that arise. Thanks.
>>
>> Matt
>>
>> Steve Tekell wrote:
>>
>>> here's the new dev server
>>> http://lternet-227.lternet.edu:8080/seekwiki/
>>>
>>> Please do any content development and review there.
>>>
>>> I haven't got the server fully configured yet or setup Tomcat to run 
>>> as a
>>> daemon service. So I can't guarantee better uptime yet. Also, LDAP
>>> security integration is turning into much more of task than originally
>>> thought, so continue to use the temporary accounts that I gave you 
>>> and let
>>> me know if anyone else needs access.
>>>
>>>
>>> Steve
>>
>>
>
>
> -- 
>
> Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile.
>

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