Required metadata for service description | |
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author contact | |
authority identification | |
service version | |
software title or nature of algorithm (myGrid Task ontology) | |
software version | |
bandwidth and/or number of requests per minute | |
example input | |
example output and/or REGEXP to test output | |
some description of error-handling capacity | |
sync/async | |
nature of underlying data | |
organism | |
biological nature of data (DNA/RNA/Protein, experimental methods or platform) | |
input parameters and purpose of each | |
output parameters and purpose of each | |
usage/license restrictions | |
authentication (whether required or not) | |
usage statistics (as per service provider) | |
usage statistics (as per third party commentary) | |
protocol (Moby, SOAP, REST, GET, POST, etc.) | |
mirror servers | |
Ontologies that could provide the above metadata | |
myGrid Ontology | provides many of the annotation information elements listed above |
Moby Object | provides an ontology of data-types |
Moby Service | similar to myGrid's bioinformatics_task branch of the myGrid Ontology |