Memorias de investigación
Communications at congresses:
Metadata Management in the Taverna Workflow System
Year:2008

Research Areas
  • Artificial intelligence

Information
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 speci- fication. In doing so, we distinguish two classes of metadata: metadata that describe workflow re- lated entities, such as services, workflows and sub-workflows, and metadata that describe workflow executions, also known as workflow provenance.
International
Si
Congress
3rd Int'l workshop on Workflow Systems in e-Science (WSES¿2008), in conjunction with IEEE CCGrid 08
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Place
Lyon, France
Reviewers
Si
ISBN/ISSN
1111111111
10.1109/CCGRID.2008.17
Start Date
01/05/2008
End Date
01/05/2008
From page
651
To page
656
8th International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid. CCGRID2008
Participants

Research Group, Departaments and Institutes related
  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Ontology Engineering Group (LIA). Laboratorio Inteligencia Artificial. Grupo de Ingeniería Ontológica
  • Departamento: Inteligencia Artificial