The design and realisation of the Experimentmy Virtual Research Environment for social sharing of workflows

  • Authors:
  • David De Roure;Carole Goble;Robert Stevens

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK;School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK;School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK

  • Venue:
  • Future Generation Computer Systems
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper we suggest that the full scientific potential of workflows will be achieved through mechanisms for sharing and collaboration, empowering scientists to spread their experimental protocols and to benefit from those of others. To facilitate this process we have designed and built the Experimentmy Virtual Research Environment for collaboration and sharing of workflows and experiments. In contrast to systems which simply make workflows available, Experimentmy provides mechanisms to support the sharing of workflows within and across multiple communities. It achieves this by adopting a social web approach which is tailored to the particular needs of the scientist. We present the motivation, design and realisation of Experimentmy.