RE: [Myexperiment-discuss] DropBox support on myExperiment

[David De Roure]

Hi Marco

 

The simple answer is yes J  We’ve been exploring this, and we are of course attracted to the way the dropbox interface does all the work for us in a really useable way! The specific use case we’ve looked at is a Taverna user running a workflow on their desktop and then uploading all the bits and pieces as a pack in myExperiment via dropbox. In fact all the links from recent myexperiment packs to presentations are already into the myExperiment dropbox account. 

 

So I’m also very interested in everyone’s thoughts on the use of dropbox. We’re rather keen on it! I was talking about it yesterday at Ann Arbor as an example of people feeling personal ownwership of data even though it’s in the cloud, and I’m currently at Madison Wisconsin where today I will be demoing Ian Cottam’s integration of Condor and dropbox.

 

(Incidentally, there are concerns about holding certain data there if it is then subject to the Patriot Act – this point has been raised by our funders.)

 

-- Dave

 

From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Marco Roos
Sent: 15 September 2009 14:31
To: Jiten Bhagat
Cc: myexperiment
Subject: [Myexperiment-discuss] DropBox support on myExperiment

 

Hello Jits et al.,

Just a thought...
I'm at a portal workshop in Edinburgh where myExperiment came up in a discussion. A claim was made that myExperiment was not entirely appropriate for a certain problem because it doesn't store data directly. I was wondering if DropBox, to which you kindly invited me, could address this 'shortcoming'. Could it provide a more powerful way to link in data than simply adding a reference to some server location in a pack? I imagine it could be extra interesting if DropBox would have an API of some kind that would allow myExperiment to do more interesting things with data in a DropBox (or other clients via myExperiment). What do you (or others) think?

Thanks,
Marco.

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