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Custom annotations for external projects #493

Open hansioan opened 4 years ago

hansioan commented 4 years ago

@piotrgithub1 @joncison @hmenager @matuskalas @bgruening

Hey all,

I am thinking about bio.tools data (model / schema) better supporting external projects and collaborators like Bioconda, Debian, Bioconductor and ELIXIR partner projects like OpenEBench, TeSS etc.

Technically we already have some support for this in our model by having Links of different types or Downloads with different types. While this is kinda ok, we could probably have more, in terms of annotations that are available. Currently a Link supports URL - Type - Note and Download supports URL-Type-Version-Note, but aside from Downloads of type CWL, Galaxy and Taverna workflows we don't have something custom. If a bio.tools entry has a link to a Biocontainers.pro in the bio.tools interface we just see a link which says "Container file", no name of the website/project, no logo, not a lot really.

It could be nice to have something a bit more custom with some additional properties coming from the other projects and all of this can be displayed nicely on the bio.tools tool cards, perhaps with logos to the other projects. This would also work well with the new ecosystem in which these projects can keep their annotations and from which we can take the properties we find relevant.

What do you think? Please tag other people who would want to participate in the discussion.

joncison commented 4 years ago

thanks @hansioan ... I already created a thread for "Information mapping, gap analysis & schema revision" (in context of the new Git-based content management) so I propose copy your post above into that thread and close this one. Pls. cc me again there & I'll reply.