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Knowledge Annotations in Scientific Workflows: An Implementation in Kepler

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Scientific research products are the result of long-term collaborations between teams. Scientific workflows are capable of helping scientists in many ways including collecting information about how research was conducted (e.g., scientific workflow tools often collect and manage information about datasets used and data transformations). However, knowledge about why data was collected is rarely documented in scientific workflows. In this paper we describe a prototype system built to support the collection of scientific expertise that influences scientific analysis. Through evaluating a scientific research effort underway at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, we identified features that would most benefit PNNL scientists in documenting how and why they conduct their research, making this information available to the entire team. The prototype system was built by enhancing the Kepler Scientific Workflow System to create knowledge-annotated scientific workflows and to publish them as semantic annotations.

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Gándara, A., Chin, G., Pinheiro da Silva, P., White, S., Sivaramakrishnan, C., Critchlow, T. (2011). Knowledge Annotations in Scientific Workflows: An Implementation in Kepler. In: Bayard Cushing, J., French, J., Bowers, S. (eds) Scientific and Statistical Database Management. SSDBM 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6809. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22351-8_11

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