[ome-devel] Web Interface

[Josiah Johnston]

We recently wrote a paper on the web interface for an upcoming  
conference [1]. The paper describes the architecture, intent, and  
direction. It would be useful if OME users could read over the attached  
paper and give their impressions. Is it approaching what you need?  
Jason has agreed to allot some time at the upcoming users meeting to  
this topic.

The focus of the paper is tools to design simple enumerative  
vocabularies (CategoryGroups), then annotate, display, and search with  
those vocabularies. That is basically the work Arpun Nagaraja did last  
summer. Our ongoing work is implementing that functionality for more  
structured annotations (Semantic Types).

Requests to date that are not covered by the work in the paper
	Simple documented examples for developers (partially covered in the  
paper)
	Usability improvements to make things easier for the average user
	Annotating many images at once
	Tools for designing Semantic Types

It would be useful for us hear what your highest priorities are. That  
will help us decide how much work to put into generalizing the  
structured annotations framework vs. making the existing components  
easier to use. Or perhaps the existing framework is usable, but needs  
better documentation.

Thank you for comments,
Josiah Johnston
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Computer Scientist
Image Informatics and Computational Biology Unit
Laboratory of Genetics, GRC/IRP/NIA/NIH

(410) 558-8460
siah at nih.gov
333 Cassell Dr, Suite 3000
Baltimore, MD 21224
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[1] 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano  
to Macro
http://www.biomedicalimaging.org/

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