1. W ORKFLOW -C ENTRIC R ESEARCH O BJECTS : F IRST C LASS C ITIZENS IN S CHOLARLY D ISCOURSE Khalid Belhajjame, Oscar Corcho, Daniel Garijo, Jun Zhao, Paolo Missier, David Newman, Raul Palma, Sean Bechhofer, Esteban Garcıa Cuesta, José Manuel Gomez-Perez, Graham Klyne, Kevin Page, Marco Roos, José Enrique Ruiz, Stian Soiland-Reyes, Lourdes Verdes- Montenegro, David De Roure, Carole A. Goble http://www.wf4ever-project.org

2. F ROM E LECTRONIC P APERS TO R ESEARCH O BJECTS 11 February 2012 2 DICoSE workshop Research Object Datasets Results Scientists Hypothesis Experiments Annotations Provenance Electronic paper Workflows

3. W ORKFLOW : E XAMPLE 11 February 2012 3 DICoSE workshop Example of a scientific workflow that implement a proteomic experiment The analysis operations that compose the workflow are provided in this case by third party web services.

4. B ENEFITS O F R ESEARCH O BJECTS A research object aggregates all elements that are necessary to understand research investigations. Methods (experiments) are viewed as first class citizens Promote reuse Enable the verification of reproducibility of the results 11 February 2012 4 DICoSE workshop

5. O UTLINE Context: Research Objects as First Class Citizens Workflow Research Object Model LifeCycle of Workflow Research Objects Conclusions and Future Work 11 February 2012 5 DICoSE workshop

6. R ESEARCH O BJECT M ODEL : O VERVIEW 11 February 2012 6 DICoSE workshop

7. W ORKFLOW T EMPLATE AND W ORKFLOW R UN 11 February 2012 7 DICoSE workshop

8. E XAMPLE 11 February 2012 8 DICoSE workshop

9. E XAMPLE ( CONT.) 11 February 2012 9 DICoSE workshop

10. E XAMPLE ( CONT.) 11 February 2012 10 DICoSE workshop

11. G ROUNDING W ORKFLOW - CENTRIC R ESEARCH O BJECTS U SING S EMANTIC T ECHNOLOGIES Workflow-centric research objects are encoded using RDF, according to a set of ontologies that are publicly available Research objects use the Object Exchange and Reuse (ORE) model, to represent aggregation. 11 February 2012 11 DICoSE workshop

12. G ROUNDING W ORKFLOW - CENTRIC R ESEARCH O BJECTS U SING S EMANTIC T ECHNOLOGIES ( CONT.) We use the Annotation Ontology (AO), to annotate research object resources and their relationships. 11 February 2012 12 DICoSE workshop

13. O UTLINE Context: Research Objects as First Class Citizens Workflow Research Object Model LifeCycle of Workflow Research Objects Conclusions and Future Work 11 February 2012 13 DICoSE workshop

14. 14 Scientist Live RO RO snapshot > Identified by a URI Some metadata Some curation Mostly private (for my group) RO snapshot > Identified by a URI Some metadata Some curation Mostly private (for my group and for paper reviewers) Librarian/Curator Scientist My supervisor calls me to report my work My supervisor calls me again and we decide to publish our RO+paper > Archived RO > Identified by a URI Good metadata and curation Mostly public Reviews received and final version published > A new PhD student continues my work >

15. O UTLINE Context: Research Objects as First Class Citizens Workflow Research Object Model LifeCycle of Workflow Research Objects Conclusions and Future Work 11 February 2012 15 DICoSE workshop

16. C ONCLUSIONS Research Objects capture information that is necessary for understanding the results of research investigations as well as the methods (workflows) used in those investigation We presented a model for specifying workflow research objects We specified how instances of that model can be encoded using semantic web technologies using standards such as Object Exchange and Reuse, and the Annotation Ontology 11 February 2012 16 DICoSE workshop

17. O NGOING AND F UTURE W ORK We are currently developing in the context of the Wf4Ever project a family of tools for the management of workflow research objects Integration with the myExperiment Social Network Portal We are also investigating issues such as: Decay Discovery and Reuse Scalability 11 February 2012 17 DICoSE workshop

18. Wf4Ever Research Object Specification is available at http://wf4ever.github.com/ro/http://wf4ever.github.com/ro/ Wf4Ever Research Object Vocabularies and Ontologies Primer is available at http://wf4ever.github.com/ro-primer/ 11 February 2012 18 DICoSE workshop R ESEARCH O BJECT S PECIFICATION A RE P UBLICLY A VAILABLE