Conservancy Welcomes the Common Workflow Language as a Member Project

[Software Freedom Conservancy]

URL: <https://sfconservancy.org/news/2018/apr/11/cwl-new-member-project/>

Software Freedom Conservancy welcomes the Common Workflow Language (CWL)
as Conservancy’s newest member project. The CWL team develops and
maintains a specification for describing data analysis workflows and
tools in a way that makes them portable and scalable across a variety of
software and hardware environments, as well as a supporting reference
implementation.

The Common Workflow Language project follows the OpenStand principles
for collaborative open standards development to openly evolve the CWL
specifications, which have already been implemented by a large number of
independent vendors and open source projects. CWL has seen a large
uptake by researchers, in particular in the bioinformatics community,
with more than 700 public CWL workflows developed across academia and
industry.

The CWL project also maintains the cwltool reference implementation,
documentation, CWL tooling and libraries, as well as facilitates
interactions and collaborations within the wider CWL community and
related external activities.

Conservancy, a public charity focused on ethical technology, is the home
of over forty projects dedicated to free and open source software.
Conservancy acts as a corporate umbrella, allowing member projects to
operate as charitable initiatives without having to independently manage
their own corporate structure and administrative services.

“By joining Conservancy, the CWL project hopes to expand its outreach
efforts across additional countries and scientific fields to promote
open, reproducible science through the use of standards-based workflows
for data analysis,” said Peter Amstutz, co-founder of CWL and Senior
Software Engineer at Veritas Genetics.

“CWL is solving important problems that will make collaborating on big
data analysis easier,” said Karen M. Sandler, Conservancy’s Executive
Director. “We’re excited to have the Common Workflow Language project
join Conservancy.”


For more information:

Common Workflow Language:
  <http://www.commonwl.org/>

OpenStand:
  <https://open-stand.org/about-us/principles/>

cwltool:
  <https://github.com/common-workflow-language/cwltool>

Software Freedom Conservancy:
  <https://sfconservancy.org/>