myExperiment: A MySpace for the...

myExperiment: A MySpace for the self-serving bioinformatician (Carole Goble)

I hurt. I have a hang-over in my eyebrows, nose, ears, toes,... Don't drink sour beer. Just say NO.

Carole certiainly knows the art of swearing in the right places during talks. She's talking about workflows, why scientists share, and so on. This talk doesn't seem as polished as her normal stuff. However, ...

Cut'n'paste vs workflow - bla, bla, bla. Boxes with data-flow arrows - bla, bla, bla. Services, SOAP, blast, interpro, coordination, change, complexity, heterogeneity. Feel better yet? At least Taverna at least automates this stuff.

'In The Cloud' - somebody uses somebody elses stuff, without support. It's just out there.

mm - publishers are starting to ask for the workflow that goes with the paper. Interesting...

Peer reviewed workflows. Workflows as patterns.

Now talking about mySpace, facebook, ... and then the equivalent for e-science. myExperiment as social-networking arround workflows. Tagging vs structure. Meta-data, controlled-vocabulary to structure this.

"Social-science lterature tells you the bleeding obviouis" - people are selfish, will share when it is of obvious benefit to them.

I'm not quite sure what this myExperiment stuff is, other than propper web community support for workflows. All seems good and sensible. Finally, manchester is starting to pay attention to actual people rather than technologies.