Applying the FAIR Principles to Computational Workflows
<|reference_start|>Applying the FAIR Principles to Computational Workflows: Recent trends within computational and data sciences show an increasing recognition and adoption of computational workflows as tools for productivity, reproducibility, and democratized access to platforms and processing know-how. As digital objects to be shared, discovered, and reused, computational workflows benefit from the FAIR principles, which stand for Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. The Workflows Community Initiative's FAIR Workflows Working Group (WCI-FW), a global and open community of researchers and developers working with computational workflows across disciplines and domains, has systematically addressed the application of both FAIR data and software principles to computational workflows. We present our recommendations with commentary that reflects our discussions and justifies our choices and adaptations. Like the software and data principles on which they are based, these are offered to workflow users and authors, workflow management system developers, and providers of workflow services as guide rails for adoption and fodder for discussion. Workflows are becoming more prevalent as documented, automated instruments for data analysis, data collection, AI-based predictions, and simulations. The FAIR recommendations for workflows that we propose in this paper will maximize their value as research assets and facilitate their adoption by the wider community.<|reference_end|>
@article{wilkinson2024applying,
    title={Applying the FAIR Principles to Computational Workflows},
    author={Sean R. Wilkinson and Meznah Aloqalaa and Khalid Belhajjame and
  Michael R. Crusoe and Bruno de Paula Kinoshita and Luiz Gadelha and Daniel
  Garijo and Ove Johan Ragnar Gustafsson and Nick Juty and Sehrish Kanwal and
  Farah Zaib Khan and Johannes K"oster and Karsten Peters-von Gehlen and Line
  Pouchard and Randy K. Rannow and Stian Soiland-Reyes and Nicola Soranzo and
  Shoaib Sufi and Ziheng Sun and Baiba Vilne and Merridee A. Wouters and Denis
  Yuen and Carole Goble},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.03490},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2410.03490},
    primaryClass={cs.DL cs.SE}
}