myGrid portal party wiki

This wiki is created in the aftermath of the myGrid portal party, held 2006-09-28 and 2006-09-29 in Manchester, UK.

Feel free to collaborate and add stuff to these pages.

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Brainstorming session

Here are some pictures from the brainstorming session, more to come. The videos will not be put on the internet, so just relax. The list of participants are here, although with lots of errors currently. Here are the brainstorming developer notes. Here are the user presentations.

A (semi-ordered) list of requirements

Rob: We have now tentatively clustered the twenty six topics as follows:

Workflow repository

• Workflow search (17)
  • By type (7)
  • By authors (7)
  • By linked publications (16)
  • Grouping services and workflows (13)
• Workflow description (17)
  • Annotation (2)
    • Tagging (12)
    • Ontologies (14)
    • Peer reviewing, ratings (11)
• Workflow download (17)
• Workflow upload (17)
  • Curating workflows [Writing a Nature paper (18)]

Workflow run time environment

• Workflow execution
  • Pre-run workflow diagnosis (26)
  • Automated process logging (3)
  • Data management (22)
• Semi-automatic workflow editing (19)
• Interactive workflows (24)

Community development

• Connecting people (9)
  • Search by people (authors or enactors) (7)
  • Discussion forums
• Incentives to contribute workflows (8)
  • Linking publications etc. related to workflows (13), (15)
  • Peer reviewing, ratings (11)
• Incentives to use workflows (8)
  • Content seeding (6)
  • Peer reviewing, ratings (11)
  • Certification of content (5)
    • Gold standards, best practice (10)
  • Demos, guidelines (20)
  • Linking publications etc. related to workflows (13), (15)

Cross-cutting requirements

• Confidentiality (23)
  • Access control (1)
• Personalisation (4)
• Complete integration, interoperability (21)

The numbers refer to the entry in the list of requirements.

(Possible) discussions and topics

Add your comments at the bottom of these pages, or just add a new one here to discuss a new topic.

• IntranetOrInternet
• ExecutionOrSharing^?
• FluffyWebsites
• AdditionalIdeas

Links

• http://myexperiment.org/
• http://myexperiment.org/mockup/

Portal Web Utilities