EuroScienceGateway D2.1: Reproducible FAIR Digital Objects for Workflows

This EuroScienceGateway report gives an overview of FAIR Digital Objects (FDO), considering their use for computational workflows as scholarly objects. EuroScienceGateway has progressed the technologies Signposting and RO-Crate for implementing Workflow FDOs with the registry WorkflowHub and the workflow system Galaxy, and initiated work with academic publishers to encourage workflow citation practices.

Here we document how WorkflowHub supports research software best practices for workflows, and assist building FAIR Computational Workflows. Provenance of workflow executions has been made possible in an interoperable way across many workflow systems using Workflow Run Crate profiles, including from Galaxy. 

Finally this report explores how Workflow FDOs are exposed and can be utilised, e.g. gathered in knowledge graphs and having tighter workflow system integration.