1. The document discusses using scientific workflows and tools like Taverna for distributed collaborative research on free and open source software development using large datasets, computational resources, and reproducible analysis. 2. Taverna is presented as an example of a scientific workflow tool that allows modular development of analysis through reusable components with input and output ports, offering advantages over scripts. 3. An example workflow is shown that calculates network centralization in dynamic networks and generates time series and CSV output for further analysis.