[SAGA-RG] SAGA Information System Navigator

[Shantenu Jha]

Antony, Steve,

Thanks for sharing this.

Yes, we (as in the saga-rg and saga community) would be interested in
seeing this a possible extension. There is interest in this possibly
from the XD (successor to the TeraGrid) perspective too.

Thanks
Shantenu
> As discussed at OGF29 we are considering proposing an "Information
> System Navigator" (ISN) API as a further extension to SAGA.
>
> This API has been designed to add value to the org.ogf.saga.sd package.
> Having selected a service with the org.ogf.saga.sd.Discoverer API, this
> API provides the means to traverse the information model and retrieve
> additional data published about that service. Alternatively it is
> possible to start with a selected entity type rather than a service. An
> optional filter can be used to restrict the results returned.
>
> This API can be used to navigate any information system that can be
> represented as an entity relationship model.
>
> An implementation of this API along with a gLite adapter have very
> recently been deployed on WLCG.
>
> See the user guides and javadoc linked from:
> http://hepunx.rl.ac.uk/egee/sa3-uk/sd/ to see details of the API.
>
> We have built a web application on top of the SD and ISN APIs, which
> allows you to navigate around the GLUE 1 and GLUE 2 information models.
> Our test server can be found here http://rgma03.pp.rl.ac.uk/InfoBrowser/
>
>
> Having gained experience from producing the implementation and adapter
> we propose to formalise this as a
> specification document that we will put forward as an extension to SAGA.
> Is this something that people would like to see go ahead?
>
>
> Regards
> Antony and Steve
>