Metadata management in the taverna workflow system

Khalid Belhajjame; Katy Wolstencroft; Oscar Corcho; Tom Oinn; Franck Tanoh; Alan William; Carole Goble; Alan Williams

doi:10.1109/CCGRID.2008.17

Metadata management in the taverna workflow system

Khalid Belhajjame, Katy Wolstencroft, Oscar Corcho, Tom Oinn, Franck Tanoh, Alan William, Carole Goble, Alan Williams

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Abstract

There seems to be a general consensus on the crucial role metadata can play for enhancing the functionalities of scientific workflows systems, e.g., workflow and service discovery, composition and provenance browsing, among others. However, in most cases their management is underspecified, if not left unaddressed at all. A step in this direction, the main contribution of the work presented in this paper is an overview of metadata and their management in the Taverna workflow system. In Taverna, we consider metadata to be a first class citizen in the system, in the sense that we fully cover their life cycle from their creation, through their use and curation until their eventual removal. We present the main steps of this cycle and present the models used for metadata specification. In doing so, we distinguish two classes of metadata: metadata that describe workflow related entities, such as services, workflows and subworkflows, and metadata that describe workflow executions, also known as workflow provenance. © 2008 IEEE.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings CCGRID 2008 - 8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid\|Proc. CCGRID - IEEE Int. Symp. Cluster Comput. Grid
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	651-656
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Print)	9780769531564
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CCGRID.2008.17
Publication status	Published - 2008
Event	CCGRID 2008 - 8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid - Lyon Duration: 1 Jul 2008 → …

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Conference	CCGRID 2008 - 8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
City	Lyon
Period	1/07/08 → …

Keywords

taverna
metadata-driven-capability
data-annotation
provenance

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Manchester Institute of Biotechnology

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Belhajjame, K., Wolstencroft, K., Corcho, O., Oinn, T., Tanoh, F., William, A., Goble, C., & Williams, A. (2008). Metadata management in the taverna workflow system. In Proceedings CCGRID 2008 - 8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid|Proc. CCGRID - IEEE Int. Symp. Cluster Comput. Grid (pp. 651-656). IEEE Computer Society . https://doi.org/10.1109/CCGRID.2008.17

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Belhajjame, K, Wolstencroft, K, Corcho, O, Oinn, T, Tanoh, F, William, A, Goble, C & Williams, A 2008, Metadata management in the taverna workflow system. in Proceedings CCGRID 2008 - 8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid|Proc. CCGRID - IEEE Int. Symp. Cluster Comput. Grid. IEEE Computer Society , pp. 651-656, CCGRID 2008 - 8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, Lyon, 1/07/08. https://doi.org/10.1109/CCGRID.2008.17

Metadata management in the taverna workflow system. / Belhajjame, Khalid; Wolstencroft, Katy; Corcho, Oscar et al.
Proceedings CCGRID 2008 - 8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid|Proc. CCGRID - IEEE Int. Symp. Cluster Comput. Grid. IEEE Computer Society , 2008. p. 651-656.

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