[Myexperiment-discuss] Characteristics of workflows

[Alan Williams]

Hello everybody,

A while back there was a discussion about what characteristics of
workflows were sensible to show/search on.  I asked on Taverna users and
Andrea Wiggins has replied:

> Some information that I think could be useful, besides the type of
> services, might be:

> -Number and type of ports (e.g. text vs 2-deep list of text, etc.)

> -Output types - this would be particularly good for finding workflows
> that produce graphs, e.g. searching for workflows that have an R
> component and a png output type

> -Whether it contains subworkflows (or subsubworkflows)

> -Complexity, though there are a number of ways you could
> operationalize this; basically I'd like to be able to look only at
> workflows that are not straight linear structures, that make use of
> the outputs from one component as input to more than one component,
> etc.

> -License - more likely to be useful for search than anything else

> -Metadata completeness; I would love to be able to have a checkbox so
> that I could exclude from search results any workflows that don't
> have metadata for non-shim components. I've seen this on another
> social network site, labelled "include all photo-less?" which is
> inelegant but perfectly descriptive.

Alan