Under the hood

• 3500+ source files in java• J2SE, Tomcat, Pellet, MySQL, Spring• 851 MB code base

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Things are not that easy…

Scientific Data Portal Modelingwhat exactly is a scientific data portal?

Linyun Fu Computer Science 2015Advisor: Peter Fox

2013-04-10

Anything we could reuse?

We start with the goal

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Tasks are fulfilled with services

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Further modeling between services and datasets

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So what did I just talk about?

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How to use the model?

• As a checklist of design issues for portal engineers

• To compile best practices into a well-organized recipe for quick reference– Sample dishes coming soon

• To facilitate choice among frameworks• As the brain of the data portal generator

• Project page: http://tw.rpi.edu/web/project/SeSF/workinggroups/ScientificDataPortalGenerator

• Point of contact: Linyun Fu ful2@rpi.edu