A Consolidated View on Specification Languages for Data Analysis Workflows.

Data analysis workflows (DAWs) are widely used in the scientific world. However, different communities created a plethora of domain-specific languages (DSLs) to specify their DAWs. Consequently, across DSLs, it is hard to perform operations on DAWs such as share, port, compare, re-use, adapt, or even merge. Thus, we have analyzed DAW specification languages and created a unified DAW metamodel. Given an instance of a DAW specification that can be matched to our metamodel, we are now able to apply CRUD operations (create, read, update, delete), and can potentially translate between different DAW specification languages.