Join us for our monthly webinar next Wed, June 4th, at 12 PM CDT. Sean Wilkinson will discuss the Workflows Community Initiative's FAIR Workflows Working Group (WCI-FW), a global and open community of researchers and developers working with computational workflows across disciplines and domains.

Recent trends in the computational and data sciences show an increasing recognition and adoption of computational workflows as tools for productivity and reproducibility that also democratize access to platforms and processing know-how. As digital objects to be shared, discovered, and reused, computational workflows benefit from the FAIR principles, which stand for Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. The Workflows Community Initiative's FAIR Workflows Working Group (WCI-FW), a global and open community of researchers and developers working with computational workflows across disciplines and domains, has systematically addressed the application of both FAIR data and software principles to computational workflows in a recent publication. This presentation will discuss the WCI-FW working group, some of the critical questions we needed to answer, the resulting set of FAIR principles for workflows, and opportunities for collaborating with the AgBioData Consortium to support FAIR workflow implementation. It is our hope that the FAIR recommendations for workflows proposed in the paper will maximize their value as research assets and facilitate their adoption by the wider community.