AWOB Benchmarks scratch

MPDL,GAVO

Some short descriptions of tools evaluated as AWOB Benchmarks.

We match the tools to the following AWOB functionalities:
 * 1: Project and User management: Organisation of AWOB is in projects, possibly hierarchy. "leaf: project corresponds to publication. Collaborators can be added with different roles.
 * 2: Resource management: allow uploading of files, linking to external files, database storage+access, visualisation etc. (MIME-type aware)
 * 3: Metadata management: allow extraction/assignment of metadata to stored resources
 * 4: RDBMS usage
 * 5: Plugin support: custom functions can easiy be added to the environment
 * 6: Portal to external services (mashup)
 * 7: Publication support: support for publishing results to the community, longt term support, metadata
 * 8: Preparation for Longer Term Data Preservation
 * 9: Server side workflows, scripting: support more complex analysis by users
 * 10: VO client: act as a client to standrad VO services: registry browsing, TAP querying, S*AP support, X-match
 * 11: Cooperation
 * a: Collaboration
 * b: Coordination
 * c: Communication

A Java based wiki. Investigated by us as example wiki with advanced custom plug-in capabilities. * Project management using Workspaces. * Resource management through aupload + storage as BLOB in RDB * Plugin support through Maven profile. "Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia, written collaboratively by its readers.  It is a special type of website designed to make collaboration easy, called a wiki." Uses MediaWiki. Has some censoring functionality. Popular photo-sharing web site. Has advanced metadata extraction capabilities and a nice interface to add custom metadata. Apparently allows some form of plug-in writing: astrometry.net seems to be accesssible from it. From wikipedia: "Facebook is a global social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc.[1] Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region." "myExperiment makes it easy to find, use and share scientific workflows and other Research Objects, and to build communities. " Suggested by one of referees. May be possible to use myExperiment services. Many spam users it seems. Local installation possible. Can derive astrometry for uploaded FITS files, other images? Local installation possible. Blogging for the General Relativity crowd. VERY popular online community project. Allows anyone to participate in classifying galaxy images from SDSS. Virtual world. Used by some groups to hold regular meetings and conferences. Free online telephony and conference calls. Blogging tool. Web site of Interbational Virtual Observatory Alliance. Portal to all IVOA standards. Links to national VO projects. Generic model for provenance tracking of (scientific) resources. The ARCHER Project (http://archer.edu.au), a collaboration between Monash University, James Cook University and the University of Queensland, wishes to announce that software developed by the project is available for download. Using funding provided by Australian Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training via the Research Information Infrastructure Framework for Australian Higher Education, this Australian higher education initiative has developed software tools to assist researchers to: * collect, capture and retain large data sets from a range of different sources including scientific instruments * deposit data files and data sets to eResearch storage repositories * populate these eResearch data repositories with associated metadata * permit data set annotation and discussion in a collaborative environment, and * support next-generation methods for research publication, dissemination and access. For an overview of the ARCHER toolset see http://www.archer.edu.au/products/ This has taken the form of a suite of independently tested, documented, open-source, production-ready generic e-Research infrastructure components to provide better management of research data: * Distributed Integrated Multi-Sensor and Instrument Middleware (DIMSIM) - concurrent data capture and analysis, and telemetry * ARCHER Research Repository, which introduces enhancements to SRB (Storage Resource Broker, http://www.sdsc.edu/srb/index.php/) * XDMS – web-based research data manager and curator * Hermes – desktop client research data manager and file transfer agent * Collaborative Workspace Development Tool (based on Plone, http://plone.org), for creating e-Research Portals. They are available for download under a GPL3 licence from http://www.archer.edu.au/downloads/ The ARCHER Project successfully completed in October 2008. Thanks to all involved (http://www.archer.edu.au/contact/archer_dev.html) for their hard work. TBD open source content management platform. * Collaborative projects through "Books". Astronomical Image manipulation(=callibration/analysis/...) pipeline software... IVOA inspired object. Generates code etc from UML model to support a web app for navigating the model. Allows upload of XML documents to populate the model database. JPA+JAXB based. such as GoogleWave (does this work ala "remote SAMP"?) The former UK virtual observatory project. Lots of software for registry, web services, VOSpace, applications... Well known VO application for accessing online datasets with FITS images and their combination. Available as applet. Popular table visualisation tool (also 3D). VO aware. Visualisation tool for spectra. Available as applet. Visualisation tool especially tailored for simulations. Server side version for remote visualisation. Access to SDSS relational database. Contents of Astronomical journals. Los Alamos preprint server CSD web site for querying astronomical tables from literature. Catalogue of identified sources with documentation etc. NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database.
 * Social Networking: an astronomerʼs field guide. E. L. Gomez, H. L. Gomez, J. Yardley
 * XWiki: 1,2,5,6,11a
 * MediaWiki
 * Wikipedia:
 * Flickr
 * Facebook
 * MyExperiment
 * ResearchGate
 * Mendeley
 * astrometry.net
 * Hyperspace.AEI
 * GalaxyZoo
 * SecondLife/example from astronomy
 * Skype
 * Wordpress
 * IVOA (e.g. SAMP)
 * Virtual Research Environments: JISC...
 * Open Provenance Model
 * "Australian collaborative project"
 * eSciDoc/ScholarlyWorkbench etc
 * Drupal
 * the Grid: D-Grid/AstroGrid-D
 * RDBMS: Postgres/MS SQLServer/MySQL/...
 * text indexing: Lucene
 * AstroWise
 * VO-URP
 * Google collaboration tools
 * the Cloud:...
 * AstroGrid UK
 * Aladin
 * TOPCAT
 * SpecView
 * VisIVO
 * SDSS CAS Jobs
 * ADS(+IVO Identifiers)
 * arXiv.org
 * Vizier
 * Simbad
 * Ned