This work was instrumental in forming the idea of Research Objects,[11] a Linked Data method for identification, aggregation and exchange of scholarly information.

In the myExperiment Ontology, the Research Object was loosely represented as a "Pack" of typed related resources, including workflows.

myExperiment was since enhanced by the Workflows Forever project (Wf4Ever)[12] which in 2011 aimed to provide new features to support the preservation of Research Objects in conjunction with the dLibra digital library framework.

[13][14] The Wf4Ever co-development with the workflow system Taverna (at the time maintained by myGrid), led to the creation of the Research Object Model ontologies.

In 2019, subsequent development of Research Object Crate (RO-Crate) replaced the RO Model with a profile of schema.org serialised in JSON-LD, this was general purpose for scholarly outputs.