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Scientific | Astronomers, Biologists | Bench scientists, experts and novices, original creators, reusers, publishers, comparators and evaluators/reviewers, scientific communities | Mentions in methods section of publications, posters, talks, etc.; components in domain research oriented applications. Demonstrators, citation mechanisms, reputation systems, management of in silico research artefacts , semantic model for research artefacts |
Astro- and Bio- informaticians | Specialists in the domain focusing on the informatics. Hybrids. Scientific communities. e.g. BOSC (Bioinformatics Open Source Conference) workshop, the Dutch national Bioinformatics support program BioAssist | Software, services and algorithms | |
Scientific programmers and developers | Developers of innovative techniques, tools and services for digital preservation within domains; e.g. Developers day, community events | Software, services and algorithms | |
Other Sciences and Researchers | Project scope includes user communities beyond immediate project partners | Translation of tools, techniques and thinking into new areas | |
Technology Researchers | Semantic Web & Linked Data | Case studies in use of Linked Data within the architectural style of the project; e.g. Presentations at technical meetings and workshops, e.g. at Intl Conf of Web Semantics | Demonstrators |
Services | Services, Web Services and software architecture community; e.g. service architectures to handle data management with Linked Data | Service design principles | |
Provenance & e-Science | Provenance research and practitioner communities; e.g. W3C Provenance Working Group; DCMI Metadata Provenance Task force | Standardization | |
Scientific workflows | Research community and multiple practitioner communities, designers of workflow management systems | Preservation strategies | |
Scholarly Communication and Digital Libraries | Library and Information Science communities; e.g. Presentations at technical meetings and workshops, e.g. at JCDL, TPDL (formerly ECDL), OAI, OR etc. | Data/method publication lifecycle | |
e-Infrastructure software & service developers | Digital Libraries and Data centres | e.g. European Bioinformatics Institute, International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) | Increase DL user base in the scientific domain, especially in workflow-intensive communities |
EU infrastructure and projects | EGI, relevant ESFRI projects such as Elixir and SKA, and specialist projects such as BioVeL. | Increase user base, influence future infrastructure | |
Digital library and preservation projects | SCAPE, dataNET, others funded in same programme, Open Phacts (IMI) | New practice emerging from Wf4Ever | |
Open source community | BOSC Open Bioinformatics Foundation | Community development encompassing Wf4Ever | |
Scholarly Comms content & service providers | Digital Libraries & Institutional and Discipline Repositories | Arkive, British Library, Datacite.org | New practice emerging from Wf4Ever |
Commercial publishers | Elsevier, Nature Publishing, IOS Press | Rich publications | |
Standards and community bodies | Digital Curation and Preservation organisations | Open Archives Initiative, UKOLN, Digital Curation Centre, The Coalition for Networked Information, CODATA, KNOS, CrossRef: Datacite, ORCID, OAIS-ORE | Use Cases |
Astronomy interop standards | IVOA InterOp and Exec | Increasing automation through Wf4Ever preservation practice influencing standards e.g. through use cases | |
Technical | Provenance, workflows. Previous relevant groups include Health Care Life Sciences and Library Linked Data; e.g. W3C Provenance WG | Influencing standards, e.g. through use cases | |
Open Science movements and projects | Multiple open science initiatives and activities; e.g. Open Knowledge Foundation, Open Society Institute, OpenScienceSummit | Adoption of workflows as part of open science practices, esp. for reproducibility | |
Funding Councils and Policy makers | National, European, International | e.g. BIS, RCUK, JISC; CICYT, CDTI | Research agendas and strategy |
Scholarly societies | The scholarly societies that will impact cultural take-up of the outcomes; e.g. ISCB | Credit and reputation | |
Public Citizens | Astronomy | Galaxy Zoo | Increased citizen awareness of science science but also participation |
Industry | Editorial market | Wf4Ever aims to stimulate a paradigm shift in the publication methods of scientific results, especially in experimental sciences, where workflows are a cornerstone. e.g. Nature, Elsevier, and PLoS | Demonstrators |
Pharmaceutical market | Pharma R&D is collaboration, data and workflow intensive. Some consortium partners have a presence in this market, through links with e,g, the Pistoia Alliance, BioITWorld and the 8 commercial partners in the Open PHACTS IMI. | Demonstrators |