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<center> Contact Cluster Chairs: [[User:sscott|Soren Scott]], [[JamesGallagher|James Gallagher]]</center>
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Latest revision as of 11:15, March 8, 2018

Welcome to the Web Services Cluster
Contact Cluster Chair:James Gallagher
ESIP Vision
About Us

Events

  • GoTo Meeting/Telecon Instructions:

No monthly calls at this time. All discussions are on the Slack Channel

  • Previous Meeting Agenda and Notes:

Get Involved

We are currently looking how to collect and analyze metrics from services, but if you have another WS topic to discuss, get in touch.

All meetings are conducted via Goto Meeting (see left-hand side of this page).


  • Monthly Meeting
  • Monthly meetings are on hiatus.


  • Activities/Special Topic Discussion Meeting:
  • We also meet for Activities and Special Topics discussions as necessary.



Activities

26 Jan 2017

We propose that the cluster look at measuring web services patterns of use at sites where large servers are run (e.g., NASA and NOAA). A casual observation is that subsetting services for data access are underused relative to simple file-access, but to qualify and quantify this more data about access patterns are needed. OPeNDAP has some experience with analysis of access data for web services (e.g., server logs) and often has found very telling patterns that can be used to improve server performance, so even if the perception regarding under-utilization it false, there will be significant benefit to the analysis of use.

Here is a draft proposal to ESIP for a project to stage a simple metrics gathering service.

If it is the case that web services are underused, we should ask why. Is it because users lack knowledge about them? Or do these services underperform users' expectations?

ESIP represents an excellent forum for this investigation since it is unique in having people representing all three groups of users (implicitly) mentioned above (end-users, system developers and data center managers).

Other suggestions:

Resources (and Other Stuff)

ESIP-Discovery Web Services Mission Statement