AMGA Web Interface Vincenzo Milazzo (v.milazzo@irt.engineering.it) IR&T engineering Catania, Italy Industry Day Catania, 26.10.2006

Partnership AMGA WI Resources is developed in collaboration between the INFN (CT Section) and the IR&T engineering as a shared objective of the Trigrid VL Project and the ADAT Project. Resources INFN S. Scifo (s.scifo@ct.infn.it) IR&T engineering V. Milazzo (v.milazzo@irt-engineering.it) Catania, 26-27 October 2006

Introduction Grid stores millions files distributed on several sites Users and applications need a secure, fast and easy to use mechanism to: organize files in a familiar manner (catalogue service) find files quickly on the Grid (search engine) search files using additional information about their contents (metadata attributes) Metadata Service allows user to: associate descriptive attributes with files (metadata) publish attributes on catalogues make catalogues available to end users and client applications Catania, 26-27 October 2006

Metadata Basic Concepts Attribute – typed couple <name, value> Name – attribute identifier Value – attribute value Type – attribute data type (int, float, varchar, …) Schema - set of attributes associated with a file (example: Title varchar, Author varchar, Version varchar, CreationTime timestamp for text files) Entry – file identifier with the instance of the metadata schema, meaning the values of its attributes FileA -> AmgaWi presentation, S.Scifo, v.1.00, 25/09/2006 Collection - set of entry FileA -> AmgaWi presentation, S.Scifo, v1.00, 25/09/2006 File B -> AmgaWi presentation, S.Scifo, v1.01, 25/09/2006 Catania, 26-27 October 2006

AMGA Service Overview AMGA (Arda Metadata Grid Application) provides a powerful interface to manage data and their metadata Schema definition : possibility to define a set of attributes in order to describe the semantic of some entity (example: Dublin Core metadata set describes digital objects published on the Web) Flexibility : possibility to define dynamic schema in order to support a large number of application domains Structural metadata : possibility to define hierarchical metadata structures in order to allow collections and sub collections definition Scalability: possibility to manage a large amount of files and schemas Security: powerful mechanism to ensure contents privacy and data integrity Catania, 26-27 October 2006

Why a Web Interface? Command Line Web Interface Expert User approach: user account on a Grid UI is needed net access to the Grid UI (internet eventually) is needed troubles with Firewalls and security stuff, VPN solution is required commands have to be typed, well knowledge of syntax is required no wizards are present, user has to type all commands user looses the high level view of metadata schemas Web Interface User Friendly (Beginner / Intermediate) approach: no dependence on the Grid UI only internet accesses is needed fast and simple training and learning using wizards and encapsulated functionalities (no syntax knowledge is required) simple and comfortable usage of the service immediate interaction Catania, 26-27 October 2006

High Level Requirement Access Control login as AMGA user providing a valid VOMS proxy file permission for collection management (change mode – change owner) ACL for collection management (list group, add group, drop group) Collection Management collection tree browsing collection creation collection deletion collection ACL management Metadata management entry listing / searching entry creation (insert entry name with attribute values) entry modification (modify attribute values) entry deletion schema management attribute listing attribute creation attribute deletion Note: all web functionalities are performed according to the business rules of the AMGA Server Catania, 26-27 October 2006

Deployment Plan Application could be deployed on a dedicated server. This can be located inside the GRID network or outside. Currently the GILDA AMGA Server machine also hosts the web interface. Users access to the catalog towards the functionalities provided by the web interface. User uses a common Web Browser. Catania, 26-27 October 2006

Software Architecture Every AMGA logical entity (collection, entry, attribute,..) is mapped to a specific software module. This ensures a very clean and simple software architecture with an high degree of cohesion and decoupling. These components work as services invoked by the overlying web pages. Every component is built on top the Official AMGA Java API. Catania, 26-27 October 2006

Functional Tree Catania, 26-27 October 2006

Log in Catania, 26-27 October 2006

Browsing Collection Catania, 26-27 October 2006

Metadata Schema Management Catania, 26-27 October 2006

Entry Management Catania, 26-27 October 2006

ACL Management Catania, 26-27 October 2006

QBE like Query Engine Catania, 26-27 October 2006

Query Result Catania, 26-27 October 2006

Road Map VOMS Server Integration Administrative module to manage users and groups ACL for entries management Query engine improvement Common browsers compatibility Exception Handling improvement Data/Metadata import/export … Catania, 26-27 October 2006