Added abstract for supplement

Until now the supplement had no introduction for a random reader to see the
purpose of this "Web extra" supplement.

With this commit, an abstract has been added.

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@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 \input{tex/src/preamble-project.tex}
 
 %% Title and author names.
-\title{Supplement to\\ \projecttitle}
+\title{\textsc{\LARGE Supplemental appendices for paper:}\\ \emph{\projecttitle}}
 \author{
   Mohammad Akhlaghi,
   Ra\'ul Infante-Sainz,
@@ -72,6 +72,18 @@
 % creates the second title. It will be ignored for other modes.
 \IEEEpeerreviewmaketitle
 
+%% A short appendix describing this file.
+\begin{abstract}
+  This supplement contains appendices to accompany the body of the published paper on CiSE (pre-print published on \href{https://arxiv.org/abs/\projectarxivid}{\texttt{arXiv:\projectarxivid}} or \href{https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.\projectzenodoid}{\texttt{zenodo.\projectzenodoid}}).
+  In the paper's main body we discussed criteria for longevity and introduced a proof of concept that implements them called Maneage (\emph{Man}aging data lin\emph{eage}).
+  However, due to the journal word-count limit we could not include a thorough literature review to emphasis on all the valuable lessons learnt from previous methods or compare them (and their lower-level tools) in sufficient detail to the criteria or the proof-of-concept presented in this work.
+  Appendix \ref{appendix:existingtools} reviews the low-level tools that used by many (reproducible) workflow solutions (including our proof of concept).
+  Appendix \ref{appendix:existingsolutions} reviews many solutions that attept(ed) reproducible management of workflows (including solutions that have been abandonded, discontinued, or unavailable any more).
+  To highlight the evolving landscape and its effects on longevity, Appendix \ref{appendix:existingsolutions}  discusses them in historical order.
+  Finally, in Appendix \ref{appendix:software} an automatically generated, and exaustive, list of software used to build this project is included with their versions.
+  This supplement was built over project commit \projectversion.
+\end{abstract}
+
 %% Import the appendices.
 \input{tex/src/appendix-existing-tools.tex}
 \input{tex/src/appendix-existing-solutions.tex}