[kepler-dev] [kepler-users] UI prototype for web-based workflow authoring

[Paul Allen]

Hi Kepler geeks:

We have found a great JavaScript wiring/graphing/modeling package 
(http://www.mxgraph.com/) that we are thinking about using in the 
implementation of the new workflow authoring UI we demo below. The one 
hitch with it is that if (when?) we open source our Science Pipe 
authoring and web tools, mxGraph would be a dependency that we could not 
include in our distribution. You can get free non-commercial licenses 
for mxGraph and I think that most groups using/developing Kepler tools 
would be eligible for that free non-commercial license, but they would 
have to acquire it separately themselves.

I'd like to get feedback on how big of roadblock this is?

Thanks,
-Paul

Paul Allen wrote:
> Kepler Users:
>
> You may know that the Cornell Lab of Ornithology is building a 
> web-based workflow authoring, execution, and management system at 
> SciencePipes.org. We gave our web/UI designer (Will Morris) free reign 
> to come up with a new UI for a web-based workflow authoring 
> environment to be used with SciencePipes. You can play with his 
> semi-functional prototype here: 
> http://sciencepipes.org/alpha/home/article/view?articleID=698958
>
> N.B. Since it is a prototype, it's written for Firefox 3 and has not 
> been cross-browser tested.
>
> We'd be happy to get your feedback; please email it to 
> sciencepipes at cornell.edu.
>
> Cheers,
> -Paul
>
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