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Knowledge Annotations in Scientific Workflows: An Implementation in Kepler
Aida Gandara, University of Texas at El PasoFollow George Chin Jr., Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, University of Texas at El PasoFollow Signe White, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Chandrika Sivaramakrishnan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Terence Critchlow, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
3-2011
Technical Report: UTEP-CS-11-15
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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Technical Report: UTEP-CS-11-15