Meeting agenda/minutes

Apologies

Attending and minuting

• Attending:
• Minuting:

Actions from previous meeting (5 min)

• use GEF with a basic model to demonstrate mockup requirements. ONGOING
• take a look at database query builders. ONGOIGN
• allow the user to connect nodes together - via Nodules (primary). Add a iterator visualisation (secondary). ONGOING

Discussions

Discussed the implication of using GEF Model with SCUFL2 in mind

Alan: - need a unitary mapping of model, entity functions we want

• Service registry & how to interface with warnings, outside world (look at VBrowser)
• how to serialise the graph position (canvas positions)

Jits: need to consider what would be involved in the next mockup

Alan: the last mockup showed RCP with basic current taverna things, how will the next mockup be different?

Jits: start user scenarios - user stories e.g. the user makes a blast wf so the user creates or loads up a file etc...

Alan: will need to consider the things involved at different activities

Rishi: so the permutations of interactions involved

Shoaib: look at tutorials - data centric scenarios

Jits: need the basic tasks needed...

Shoaib: things considered basic such as Offline editing is not easy - need to design for offline usage from the start

Alan: need to design for Errors (presumed if everything works okay)
need to design for Provenance - explicit error ports etc..

Jits: where will these basic things fit in? Eclipse RCP or architecturally?

Rishi: there's are Eclipse RCP + GEF books available (Jits: +ebook)

Shoaib: need to ask Steve about direct manipulation concepts. After the E-Lico review, use the wf as one of the workflows to provide example usage.

New actions

• Work on GEF
• Find Eclipse RCP + GEF book
• Consider user scenarios
• Ask Steve about direct manipulation

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