Re: [Myexperiment-discuss] URLs and empty workflows

[Jiten Bhagat]

Hi Paul,

I love your idea, and this would certainly be a more useful way of 
structuring the URLs... IF we could guarantee that the names of 
workflows and the display names of users don't change over time. I 
suppose we could ask users to provide a perma-name for themselves and 
their workflows to achieve this though.

In the BioCatalogue, we have URLs like:

<http://beta.biocatalogue.org/services/1928-ebisearchservice_291308>

... which are slightly more informative and these will never change.

Cheers,
Jits


Paul Fisher wrote:
> I thought about that. So, I was thinking of a different mechanism 
> using some sort of id or name, and then a version number after that.
> E.g.
>
>    http://www.myexperiment.org/workflows/paul_fisher/qtl_kegg/3
>
> where the persons name is included in the url, then a short name for 
> the url, then the version number.
> I don't know if this is sensible or not. I do know it would be a 
> re-write of a lot of code though, and would piss a lot of people off.
>
> From my view though, it would let me know who's the workflow was, the 
> name of the workflow, and the version.
>
> Just a thought. Thanks for the response.
>
> Paul.
>
>
> Alan Williams wrote:
> > Paul Fisher wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I'm just looking around on myepxeriment and thought about the urls 
> > > of workflows.
> > > The numbering appears to start from 1, then goes up as a new 
> > > workflow is added. Is that correct?
> > > I then thought I would try and start at 1 and go up progressively. I 
> > > hit number 2, however, and found nothing - 
> > > http://www.myexperiment.org/workflows/2
> > >
> > > Would this be a case of the workflow being deleted?
> > > If so, is it possible/wise to place a new workflow into the slot of 
> > > a now empty/deleted workflow?
> >
> > It's probably not a good idea to put a new workflow there.  Any links 
> > to the old workflow would give the new one.  Imagine your paper cites 
> > Katy's wonderful workflow but it is now replaced with my crappy one. 
> > Or, if your workflow included Katy's but now pulled in mine.
> >
> > It's better for myExperiment to say the workflow has gone missing 
> > rather than "lie" when asked for it.
> >
> > > regards,
> > > Paul.
> >
> > Alan
>
>
>
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