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When constructing workflows that operate on large and complex data sets, the ability to describe the types of both data sets and workflow procedures can be invaluable, enabling discovery of data sets and procedures, type checking and composition of procedure calls, and iteration over composite data sets.
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Zhao, Y., Wilde, M., Foster, I. (2007). Virtual Data Language: A Typed Workflow Notation for Diversely Structured Scientific Data. In: Taylor, I.J., Deelman, E., Gannon, D.B., Shields, M. (eds) Workflows for e-Science. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-757-2_17
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