So that's tagging annotation, now I want to talk a little bit about sharing and
publishing.
So these are, two different concepts in Galaxy.
So when we talk about sharing.
We're usually referring to making a entity like a data set or history, or
a workflow available to particular users.
Where when we publish something, it becomes available to everyone.
And it's actually listed in, the published Section.
And so, for histories, again I'm going to go to the cog, which is history options.
And you'll see share or publish.
And so, I have a couple of options here.
The first is I can share with a specific user.
I click there, I'm actually asked to put in an email address
of a user who I want to share this.
So I can put in there their email address.
And if they're a Galaxy user, they have an account under that email address.
Then they will not be able to access this particular history.
I can also make a history accessible via link.
So if I say make accessible via link, now immediately Galaxy has given me this link.
Link.
Now, earlier I talked about your public name, this is why you want to set one,
because you're going to have a URL to your history which is /u/your
public name/ h and then the name that you gave your history.
You can of course edit this, particularly if you have not given your history
a useful name you can edit the URL.
And now I can take this link.
And I can give this to anyone, I can share it by an e-mail, I can post it on
an another website, and anyone who has the link can get access to the history.
However, it's not published until I actually say, Publish History.
So right now, this history will not be in the published history's list.
If I click Publish History now it's going to be available.
So, to see all the published histories, you can go up to Shared Data here.
And, toward the bottom here, we have Published Histories,
Published Workflows, Published Visualizations and Published Pages.
And so, if I click on Published Histories, I'm going to get a list of
all of the histories that Galaxy users have chosen to publish.
And you'll see why is was useful that I provide the annotation.
The annotation is, is shown here in this list.
It tells you who the owner is.
It tells you the tags associated with that history.
But you can see there's many other histories that
various users in Galaxy have shared.
We can do things like sort them by ratings, so
you can actually rate the quality of shared objects and so.
We can see some
of the more popular histories that have been shared through Galaxy in this way.