XSEDE Capability Delivery Plan for "SPI-08: Register availability of a specific application or service for use"

Use Case SPI-08: Register availability of a specific application or service for use

Area: Community Building
URLs: Public, Review

Executive Summary: A service provider or science gateway operator needs to advertise an application or service they make available for use as part of a resource or gateway.

Organization: 
XSEDE
URLs: Public
First CDP: 2018-12-07
Current CDP: 2020-11-02
Current Implementation Status: 
Time & Effort Summary: 

This use case is fully available in the current XSEDE system.

Significant Revisions:
This capability is currently supported by the following 5 components:
Component User facing? Component’s role in the capability
Information Publishing Framework (IPF) v1.6-1 tar package no Software package available for resource operators, science gateways, and other service providers to install to automatically publish what software and services they make available to users from a local repository.
Information Publishing Framework (IPF) no Service operated by resource operators, science gateways, and other service providers to automatically publish software and service information.
Information Services yes Provides web and API access to software an service vendor, description, availability, and status information.
Research Software Portal (RSP) yes Provides a way for resource operators, science gateways, and other service provider to manually register the software and services they make available to users.
Software and Service Availability Repository yes Central registry of software and services available across the XSEDE federation