Minutes from our first meeting

[bgruening]

Codename: IWC

ACTION: Logo
ACTION: write a mission statement out of this document

• Brad and Jen

Best practices

• encourage good things, prevent bad things
• recommendations
• organizing workflows
• cleaning up published workflows
• what makes a good workflow usable
• annotation of workflows
• ACTION: EVERYONE - define a list of metadata
  • linter for workflow metadata, does it fulfill our recommendations
• generic workflows, workflow templates, modules
• example datasets for workflows

Discoverability

• finding and discover workflows
• central repository
• EDAM
• ACTION: everyone please think about it and come up with ideas (e.g. github, myexperiments)
  • start with a example repo -> jmchilton/workflow-testing
  • spin up a central-repo which is only to link to other repos

User

• collecting use-cases (ACTION: everyone)
• workflows are not used!!! Figure out why, and fix this, care about the best-practices later
• user evaluation, usability
• workflow language is not our thing - political nonsense
• we should concentrate on the user perspective
• workshops
• testing
  • ACTION: documentation testing and running workflows from a command-line
  • Brad, with hints John

Diverse

• recommendation of tools

• tours for workflows

• different more educational view of workflows

• histories are workflows, we should consider this and define guideline when a history is useful and when a workflow is useful

• responsible for the infrastructure, come up with ideas and push this to the core team if we can not implement this on our own

• versioning, provenance of workflows

• ACTION item: monthly update could be written. --> Brad and Jen.