README

== ServiceCatalographer

The ServiceCatalographer is a Web application that provides a registry of Web services.
Its source code based on that of BioCatalogue - a registry of life sciences Web services
(BioCatalogue, http://www.biocatalogue.org). BioCatalogue was a BBSRC-funded project
(grant numbers: BB/F01046X/1, BB/F010540/1) started in 2008 as a joint venture between
the University of Manchester (led by Professor Carole Goble CBE) and the EMBL-EBI
(led by Rodrigo Lopez). ServiceCatalographer is domain-independent and can be used for
registering SOAP and REST Web services from any domain (and not just from life sciences).

The goals of the ServiceCatalographer are:

- Provide a single registration point for Web service providers and a single search
site for scientists and developers.
- Provide a curated catalogue of Web services.
- Providers, expert curators and users can provide oversight, monitor the catalogue
and provide high quality annotations for services.
- Provide a place where the community can find, contact and meet the experts and
maintainers of these services.

You can stand up your own instance of ServiceCatalographer by following the installation instructions at:
http://dev.mygrid.org.uk/wiki/display/servicecatalographer/Installation+instructions