Ten Simple Rules for Experiments' Provenance

[...]the universe of experiments performed, let alone possible, far exceeds the stamina of even the most earnest committees to promulgate definitions and criteria. The early successes of the Dublin Core (administrative metadata), Gene Ontology, and macromolecular crystallographic information file (mmCIF) (the latter two, descriptive metadata) encouraged the idea that metadata would naturally arise from ontologies and be exchanged through the web [27-29]. Workflow systems Increasingly, wet-bench and computational work form an integrated whole, but current workflow systems address either a portion of the wet-bench work--such as LabView's abilities to interconnect multiple instruments and their data--or computations [41].