A Web Interface Toolkit to Manage the AMGA Metadata Server Within the EGEE Standard Deployment

摘要

This paper describes a Web Graphical User Interface (GUI) toolkit for the access of the scientists to the official Enabling Grid for E-sciencE (EGEE) metadata server (AMGA). Such toolkit is composed of the amgaNavigator program and a library of PHP4 API to the AMGA server. The amgaNavigator is a high-level Grid interface designed for the current EGEE-III stable operating system (Scientific Linux 4) and the public package distribution. The contribution to the Computer Science is a toolkit, which integrates all the necessary deployment stacked on the EGEE standard platform, keeping the platform homogeneity with the rest of the infrastructure services. For the users, the amgaNavigator offers an exploration of the metadata schema and entries, with advanced searches in the catalog, avoiding the end-user to handle the AMGA SQL syntax.