Coordination for U13 grant proposal
call for proposals: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-CA-16-020.html
Problems we are solving:
- The workflow communities work in silos and little discussion happens between different workflow communities
- Workflow systems each compete to do everything and seldom work together to share workflow system components
- Users chose a workflow system for a variety of reasons (some good, some bad) then get locked into their choice
- Workflow systems are each built according to an abstract model, but these models are rarely explicit
Our goal:
- To remove the walls between these silos and organize these community towards building the Workflow Commons (we need to define/agree what we mean by this)
Initial plan:
- a series of workshops (3?)
- the first workshop should try to bring together major NIH funded workflows and workflow user communities to
- analyse the capability of current workflows and define the taxonomy of the workflows
- identify users’ needs and requirements regarding workflows themselves, workflow interoperability, and data analysis and sharing and their relations to workflows
- the first workshop should try to bring together major NIH funded workflows and workflow user communities to