# Introduction to Workflows – Part 2

Anne Baillot, Françoise Gouzi, Toma Tasovac

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# Introduction to Workflows – Part 2

Anne Baillot¹, ² ID, Françoise Gouzi² ID, Toma Tasovac², ³ ID

1. Langues, Littératures, Linguistique des Universités d'Angers et du Mans [3L.AM]

2. DARIAH-EU, Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities

3. Belgrade Center for Digital Humanities

In the first part of our introduction to the inaugural issue of *Transformations*, we underlined how workflows, although key to the research process, still lack proper recognition. With this second series of articles dedicated to workflows, *Transformations* continues its contribution to changing that situation.

In the section on metadata-based workflows, Emiliano Degl'Innocenti, Francesco Pinna, Alessia Spadi, and Federica Spinelli examine the role of infrastructures in stabilising and ensuring the reusability of research workflows. Their article, **Supporting executable scientific workflows in a clustered Infrastructure: DARIAH-IT and H2IOSC**, introduces AEON (dAriah sErvice Oriented iNfrastructure), an upcoming platform designed to create, execute and manage scientific workflows based on a variety of rich metadata.

Infrastructures also play an important role in facilitating text-based workflows, as shown in **Fluffy Publication Workflow: Preserving Humanities Research Data with the TextGrid Repository** by Ubbo Veentjer, Stefan Buddenbohm, José Calvo Tello, Stefan E. Funk, Ralf Klammer, Nanette Rißler-Pipka, Alex Steckel, Lukas Weimer, George Dogaru, and Mathias Göbel. The authors describe the improvements to the TextGrid repository both in its operational procedures and through researchers' involvement in usability initiatives that guide its ongoing development.

Both papers reflect on how the DARIAH community contributes to the implementation of the FAIR principles while providing the infrastructural backbone needed to make workflows truly reusable. They also highlight the inherent complexity of solutions designed to encompass a range of research settings and questions, and offer concrete examples on the potentials and pitfalls of standardisation.
With the contribution by Kévin Roger, we open a new chapter: one dedicated to musicology. In **The Music Encoding Initiative: Its Generation Workflows**, Roger systematically addresses a range of steps, tools, and processes relevant to digital musicology workflows, providing an overview of the current methods and weighing their advantages and limitations. It serves as a unique entry point for those interested in working with the Music Encoding Initiative, and an illuminating perspective for non-specialists seeking to learn more about the challenges in the field.

While this first issue of *Transformations* cannot capture every aspect of digital scholarship in which workflows are pivotal or increasingly becoming a more valued asset, it still reveals the breadth of their relevance. We hope to have opened new avenues of inquiry, and made the contribution of workflows to a healthy research landscape more tangible—along with the underlying infrastructural challenges they entail. We also hope that future publications will build on this foundation, deepening reflection on workflows and further improving access to the rich array of resources and insights they bring to light.