The demand for consistent web-based workflow editors
The demand for consistent web-based workflow editors
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10.1145/2534248.2534260
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2013-11
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S. Gesing;M. Atkinson;I. Klampanos;Michelle Galea;M. Berthold;R. Barbera;Diego Scardaci;G. Terstyánszky;Tamás Kiss;P. Kacsuk
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S. Gesing;M. Atkinson;I. Klampanos;Michelle Galea;M. Berthold;R. Barbera;Diego Scardaci;G. Terstyánszky;Tamás Kiss;P. Kacsuk
本文确定了基于web的图形化科学工作流编辑器对许多学科的研究人员的高价值，并提请注意两个技术转变：高质量的编辑器现在可以在浏览器中运行，以及管理多种工作流语言和支持多语言工作流的工作流制定系统正在出现。我们认为，这为引入多语言图形工作流编辑器提供了一个独特的机会，这反过来将产生实质性的好处：工作流用户会发现更容易共享和组合用多种工作流语言编码的方法，通用框架将促进概念的融合和工作流组件的共享，许多工作流社区可以在浏览器中共享交付高质量图形工作流编辑器的大部分工作。本文考察了这种通用框架是否可行，并提出了基于web的编辑器的初步设计，并通过初步原型进行了测试。这不是一个既成事实，而是在投资于许多不同的个体实现之前，共同探索一个通用的基于web的框架的一个紧迫的战斗口号。
This paper identifies the high value to researchers in many disciplines of having web-based graphical editors for scientific workflows and draws attention to two technological transitions: good quality editors can now run in a browser and workflow enactment systems are emerging that manage multiple workflow languages and support multi-lingual workflows. We contend that this provides a unique opportunity to introduce multi-lingual graphical workflow editors which in turn would yield substantial benefits: workflow users would find it easier to share and combine methods encoded in multiple workflow languages, the common framework would stimulate conceptual convergence and increased workflow component sharing, and the many workflow communities could share a substantial part of the effort of delivering good quality graphical workflow editors in browsers. The paper examines whether such a common framework is feasible and presents an initial design for a web-based editor, tested with a preliminary prototype. It is not a fait accompli but rather an urgent rallying cry to explore collaboratively a generic web-based framework before investing in many divergent individual implementations.