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</section>
<section>
- <h2 id="story-process_of_science">Services Supporting the Process
- of Science</h2>
+ <h2 id="story-process_of_science">Services Supporting the Process of Science</h2>
<p>Many fields of science now include branches with in silico
data-intensive methods, e.g. bioinformatics, astronomy. To support
these new methods we look to move beyond the established platforms
@@ -624,36 +623,22 @@
publishing of experimental data "beyond the PDF"), and re-use.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="#uc-aggregate_resources" title="">Aggregations</a>,
- specifically <i>Research Objects (ROs)</i> that are exchanged
+ specifically <i>Research Objects (ROs)</i> are exchanged
between services and clients bringing together workflows, data
- sets, annotations, and provenance. We use an RDF model for this.
- While some aggregated contents are encoded using RDF and an
- increasing number are linked data sources, others are not; while
- some are stored locally "within" the RO, others are remote (in
- both cases this is often due to size of the resources or access
- policies).</li>
- <li>Services that are distributed and linked. Some may be
- centralising for e.g. publication, others may be local, e.g. per
- lab. We need lightweight services that can be simply and easily
- integrated into and scale across the wide variety of softwares
- and data used in science: we have adopted a RESTful approach
- where possible.
+ sets, annotations, and provenance.
+ </li>
+ <li>We need lightweight services that can be simply and easily
+ integrated into, and scale across the wide variety of softwares
+ and data used in science.
<ul>
- <li>Foundation services that collect and expose ROs for
+ <li>Foundation services collect and expose ROs for
storage, modification, exploration, and reuse.</li>
<li>Services that provide added-value to ROs such as
seamless import/export from scientific workflow systems,
- automated stability evaluation, or recommendation (and
- therefore interact with the foundation services to
- retrieve/store/modify/ROs).</li>
+ automated stability evaluation, or recommendation.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
- <p>
- seeAlso: <a href="http://www.wf4ever-project.org/"
- title="http://www.wf4ever-project.org/"
- rel="nofollow">Wf4Ever</a>
- </p>
</section>
<section>
@@ -765,7 +750,7 @@
to aggregate <a href="http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-903/paper-01.pdf"
title="http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-903/paper-01.pdf" rel="nofollow">scientific
workflows</a> and the artefacts that result from this workflow. The
- research object begins life as an empty container (see below) into which
+ research object below, begins life as an empty container (see below) into which
workflows, datasets, results and other data will be added
throughout the lifecycle of the project.
</p>