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application, has been selected as it is designed to provide project layout and
control functions. It also captures basic project information from the group to
dates to budgets and owners. The projects and tasks can be color coded. Also,
fi les can be uploaded against specifi c tasks and projects. An interesting module
in dotProject is the provision to create subprojects as a “dynamic” task. It
allows one to create tasks with a hierarchy including dependencies, priorities,
resource assignments, and dates. Tasks can be created and tagged as a mile-
stone. A Gantt chart illustrates the project schedule and shows all tasks and
milestones.
20.3.6
Search
Search engines capture the content from the Web, mostly searching the con-
tents of the Web pages in the form of documents. These do not search across
databases with different standards. In the OSDD portal, a semantic search
engine has been incorporated which performs full-text semantic search on the
RDF data store and other databases associated with each system. A semantic
search helps improve accuracy of the search by contextual meaning of the
terms in structured data and generates more relevant results delivering the
information rather than a list of search results based on keywords.
20.3.7
Microattribution
Appropriate attribution is at the core of scientifi c communication. A microat-
tribution system is put in place to ensure that each contribution on the OSDD
portal is attributed to the author. Microattribution is a concept to allocate
credit points to all users based on their inputs and contributions to the OSDD
community. This ensures that every contribution is tracked and that credit
points are attached to each contribution. To keep track of the contributions
made by each user and assign credit points to them, a microattribution system
is interfaced with all the other systems to capture contributions. This system
helps to track discussions on a forum, blog entries, contribution to ideas, proj-
ects, and laboratory notebooks and awards points to the associated users. It
also facilitates users to redeem points accumulated by them on the portal. The
users are to be assigned blue/silver/gold/platinum membership and are part of
corresponding user groups in the portal based on points earned. It is antici-
pated that assignment of credits will enable it to incentivize contributions.
20.3.8
Workfl ow System
With the advent of high-throughput technologies, there has been an unprec-
edented increase in the amount of data generated. It is critical to analyze these
data comprehensively in a collaborative and reproducible manner. For enabling
the OSDD community to perform sharable high-throughput computational
analysis, the Galaxy workfl ow engine [8] has been customized and interfaced
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