Hello everybody, The BioVeL project I am working on, http://www.biovel.eu, have an interesting problem. A lot of the data is sourced from GBIF http://www.gbif.org/ which has a registry of species data that is sourced from lots of data providers. When you use data from GBIF then you are required to cite the original data providers.
The problem is "how to pass the citation information". We could write the workflows so that the citations are passed along explicitly. However, this means that we would clutter up the workflow, may have to edit workflows from elsewhere to keep the citations, and can easily make mistakes. To me, it seems more sensible to have some mechanism for associating the citation information (or indeed other metadata) with the actual data. Then Taverna should inherit that metadata to any results generated. The workflow could then concentrate on processing the data and the metadata would be inherited automatically. I wonder if other people have had similar problems and how they solved them. An alternative approach would be not to inherit the metadata, but instead to wait until the results were somehow published and then use the provenance of the workflow run to determine the metadata for the results. I am not sure that would work as it assumes that provenance is captured Alan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ taverna-hackers mailing list [email protected] Web site: http://www.taverna.org.uk Mailing lists: http://www.taverna.org.uk/about/contact-us/ Developers Guide: http://www.taverna.org.uk/developers/
