Expressing machine-interpretable statements in the form of subject-predicate-object triples
is a well-established practice for capturing semantics of structured data. However, the …

The success of the Web is based largely on its open, decentralized nature; at the same time,
that allows for a wide range of perspectives and intentions. Trust is required to foster …

Trust is an integral component in many kinds of human interaction, allowing people to act
under uncertainty and with the risk of negative consequences. For example, exchanging …

Life sciences research is based on individuals, often with diverse skills, assembled into
research groups. These groups use their specialist expertise to address scientific problems …

Provenance, ie, the origin or source of something, is becoming an important concern, since it
offers the means to verify data products, to infer their quality, to analyse the processes that …

This special issue and our editorial celebrate 10 years of progress with data-intensive or
scientific workflows. There have been very substantial advances in the representation of …

Data management is growing in complexity as large-scale applications take advantage of
the loosely coupled resources brought together by grid middleware and by abundant …

The provenance of data has recently been recognized as central tothe trust one places in
data. It is also important to annotation, todata integration and to probabilistic databases …

In e-Science experiments, it is vital to record the experimental process for later use such as
in interpreting results, verifying that the correct process took place or tracing where data …

The increasing ability for the sciences to sense the world around us is resulting in a growing
need for datadriven e-Science applications that are under the control of workflows …