1. BiodiversityCatalogue How-Tos Robert Haines

2. BiodiversityCatalogue Home Hover over the ‘s for more information!

3. BiodiversityCatalogue Home Lots of information feeds Subscribe to updates with an RSS reader: Subscribe to updates with an RSS reader:

4. Service discovery You do not need an account to – Browse Services – Search the Catalogue Search from the Home Page: Search Browse Search by data

5. Service discovery: Browsing Tags Services Filters

6. Service discovery: Faceted browsing Filtered services Filters: applied (top) and available (below) Filters: applied (top) and available (below) Subscribe to these filters Further searching

7. Service discovery: Search Search for “workflow” 4 Services 11 Soap Operations 1 REST Endpoint

8. Service discovery: Detail Service names Provider information. Supplementary annotations. Monitoring status Service URIs

9. Become a member and sign in The “Sign up” and “Sign in” buttons are in the top-right hand corner of the home page: Click here to create an account. Click here to sign in if you already have an account.

10. Create an account (Sign up) 1 Your email address is used as your login name. It is kept private and will never be disclosed to anyone else. Choose a secure password.

11. Create an account (Sign up) 2 Your name as you want people to see it. Finish the sign up process. Only give a public email address if you are happy for people to see it (and possibly use it). Optional information about you. Tick here for site and service updates via email.

12. Your user profile Name and badge (if appropriate). Private information. Not seen by others. Edit profile From here. Edit profile From here.

13. Registering a service Register a SOAP (WSDL) based Web Service Register a REST based Web Service

14. Registering a service: SOAP 1 Submit the Service WSDL Hit “Preview” to check (and add to) the information provided by the WSDL

15. Registering a service: SOAP 2 Lots of information is gathered from the WSDL And so on …

16. Registering a service: SOAP 3 Lots more can be added … Alternative names. Links to documentation. Categories (for Service filtering). Tags. Free-text description.

17. Registering a service: REST Alternative names. Links to documentation. Categories (for Service filtering). Tags. Free-text description. Base URL or Endpoint. Service name.

18. Annotating services 1 Add tags … Start typing and tags are suggested. Ontology support. (BioVeL domain ontologies are in development) Ontology support. (BioVeL domain ontologies are in development) More (relevant) tags makes a service easier to find for others. More (relevant) tags makes a service easier to find for others.

19. Annotating services 2 You can add: – Documentation links – High level descriptions – Usage conditions – Costs – Licencing – Contact information – Publications – Citations

20. Annotating services 3 Add example data to input/output ports …

21. Summary Anyone can browse and search Members can – Register services – Annotate any part of any service Names, Categories, Tags Descriptions Example data – Get service monitoring updates