Figure 2.

Distributing research objects to online services and re-aggregating them via feeds. Researchers, instruments, or computers may create digital objects such as data, workflows, descriptions, and presentations as well as references to physical objects such as samples and materials. These objects can be stored in a wide range of services that provide specific functionality. Using feeds the record of these depositions can be re-aggregated, tracked, and processed using standard tools such as Feed readers.