[kepler-dev] SciencePipes.org update

[Matt Jones]

Congratulations Paul on these great demos.  I've been looking forward
to seeing what you've done so far.  The interface is nice and simple,
and I like how you've 'exposed' parameters for web configuration.  The
Google charts actors are also intriguing -- would they work outside of
a web environment?

There are some clear synergies with other work that is ongoing in
Kepler, and so it would be good to consider how to coordinate these
activities.

For example, in your interface you allow people to select which
parameters are 'exposed' in a workflow on a web page.  We have been
working on the opposite in Kepler -- choosing which parameters and
outputs are 'of interest' to a reporting subsystem.  The number of
potential parameters and outputs from a workflow is huge, so we've
added the ability to flag certain workflow items as 'ItemsOfInterest',
and these are in turn used by a report designer to layout and render a
nicely formatted report from a workflow run.  We still have a ways to
go before it is ready to demo, but it would be interesting if items
marked in Kepler might be picked up in SciencePipes, or vice versa.

Another example is in your workflow repository.  As you know, Kepler
already has a workflow repository based on Metacat, but it is isolated
via a simple set of web service operations.  If SciencePipes could
support the same web service interface, then it would be possible to
make the SciencePipes repository show up in the Kepler search
interface.  We are working on exposing additional workflow sharing
capabilities through the Kepler UI, and it would probably be useful to
be able to go from Kepler to SciencePipes and back via the various
repositories.   SciencePipes could then also take advantage of
workflows that are stored in the Kepler repository and possibly others
(we hope to Kepler-enable other repositories too).

Looking forward to exploring these and other synergies with you. And
thanks for the demos.

Matt

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 6:11 AM, Paul Allen <pea1 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've just put out a couple of demos showing Science Pipes functionality. You
> can get to them from the Science Pipes home page (http://sciencepipes.org)
> or directly:
>
> uploading and running a Kepler workflow
> editing a pipe in the SciencePipes.org authoring environment
>
> Note however, that this functionality isn't yet released to the public.
>
> For those of you unfamiliar with SciencePipes the Kepler site has an
> technical overview. The Science Pipes site itself also has a non-technical
> overview.
>
> -Paul
>
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