CBEO Portal Presentation

2/6/2008, 4:30pm EST

SDSC

http://geon16.sdsc.edu:8080/gridsphere

Or link from http://ccmp.chesapeake.org/CBEO/

• Data publication and discovery

• Data analysis and integration

• Document and team management

• Specialized applications

Portal components

Accessing the portal• Portal linked to from CBEO site (and there is a

return link on the portal)• Logging in as a guest:

– Can search and download, but no projects, personal work area, or application access

• Logging in as a regular user:– Access to applications depending on your credentials

and roles– Access to private files– Access to projects that you are a member of

• Joining projects: follow steps in invitation– DEMO: how an invitation is issued and responded to

“My Projects”• myWorkbench My Projects

• Organize team members with different roles, organize documents, develop wiki, etc.

It is easy to create a new project• Click “Start a project”

– You are a project lead, project is not approved yet– You can “Modify Team” and send an invitation to join,

also assign roles to members• When you get an invitation

– If you are a member of the portal already, then login and go to MyProjects, and accept invitation

– If you are not a member, register to the portal (using the same email address that the invite was sent to!!!), then go to MyProjects, and accept invitation

• Explore the CBEO-ALL project– You can edit a project wiki, discussion board, upload

or register resources to a project (and a few other functions – it is configurable)

• Add resources by uploading them (limited size), or registering resources from the portal

• Minutes – Subprojects -- Workflows

Finding data and services (resources)

• Find data registered by CBEO people, or registered by members of other portals a federation of data sharing portals across disciplines

• Many different data types can be searched (and ontologies)

• For found datasets and services:– explore metadata, download, add to workspace, view– What you can do with a resource depends on how this resource

was registered– Resources can be added to your project

My Workbench• On the left side:

– Resources that you found and added to workbench– Integrated resources– Computations– Resources that you submitted (you can update them, share

private resources with selected users)– Resources that are submitted by others, and administrator can

“publish” them (pending resources)

• Examples– Select several shapefiles,Excel files integration cart– Explore CIMS databases (original and ODM-formatted)

Publishing resources (via Contribute)

Tools

• GEON Tools– Check out LiDAR workflow

• CBEO Tools: – CBEO DASH (we host CBEO HIS Server)– Hydroseek– R-based kriging workflow (status and demo)

Summary• Added in the last month:

– Registration of shapefiles in projections other than WGS84

– CBEO-ALL, and project space increased to 100Mb per user

– Updated CBEO Tools– R-based Workflow

• Prospects:– Additional data integration scenarios– Interpolation services portal– Running modeling workflows