myExperiment: Defining the Social Virtual Research Environment

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Designing the myExperiment Virtual Research Environment for the Social Sharing of Workflows

“…We have also compared our approach with the established literature in group working and Computer Supported Collaborative Work -this combination of disciplines was addressed in a recent workshop (see reference [15]). We have found some principles to be consistent, but in many ways we are in a very different place to earlier work since a distributed application platform (the Web) and collaborative tools (Wikis) are already widely deployed.…”

“…The scoping workshops took the issues presented in Section 2 and the design principles presented above, and explored the following design dimensions: The outcomes of our discussion on key dimensions are presented in [15] and the resulting architecture is illustrated in Figure 1. Below we summarise the first three dimensions to illustrate the application of the design principles.…”

A Linked Data Approach to Sharing Workflows and Workflow Results

“…While the workflow paradigm provides a useful way to formalise an analysis pipeline, myExperiment.org provides a repository to share and publish these artefacts on the Web [10]. Additional documentation (tags, comments) can be provided by the owner of a workflow or users of myExperiment.…”

Using Provenance to Improve Workflow Design

“…De Roure and Goble [2] address several issues to promote workflow reuse. One of them is the recommendation of workflow and services, which is a vital part of enabling sharing through discovery by other scientists and it is also a part of communicating know-how.…”

“…Current e-Science infrastructures provide the capability to combine services from a diverse set of providers in a variety of ways. However, they can only be exploited by a minority of specialists who are familiar with workflow composition systems, programming paradigms, distributed infrastructures and complex problem solving environments [2]. In this work we propose a recommendation service that aims at suggesting frequent combinations of scientific programs for reuse.…”