Re: [Myexperiment-discuss] workflow pics

[James Howison]

On Jun 30, 2008, at 12:41 PM, Linde, A.E. wrote:

> > <<We're trying to build a community of researchers in the domain of  
> > those studying free and open source software development>>
>
> Who is 'we'?

Sorry, I'm referring to a research and data repository that I work  
with:  http://ossmole.sf.net Of course there are other respositories  
in our field, we recently had an NSF workshop to discuss collaboration  
and ways forward:

> > <<may I ask why you are building a separate site and not 'just a  
> > group' on myexperiment.com>>
>
> I'm aiming to customise the codebase (in relatively small ways): a)  
> to add some facilities astronomers would be more likely to use; b)  
> to add an interface to the SKUA project infrastructure (the main  
> reason for the work I'm doing) in order to test that technology.  
> What we do may turn out to be things myExperiment will later want to  
> incorporate.

I see, makes perfect sense :)

> > <<For example federated search would relieve some of the  
> > difficulties of separated sites>>
>
> Strangely enough, that's pretty much what the SKUA project (http://myskua.org 
> ) is working on.


Excellent, thanks for that.  I'm working on an RDF/OWL meta-ontology  
for which I hope will facilitate cross-repository searching in our  
research domain as well, although that is at the data-individual  
level, rather than the organization/dataset level (although that's  
also a very good idea).  I think it's a great approach for federation.

Thanks,
James