IF-5 Provenance Plan

Who

• MarkGreenwood
• NedimAlpdemir (MyGridInformationRepository aspects)

Flipchart Summary

1. Workflow provenance
2. What provenance questions do we expect?
3. Provenance record schema
   • view on InformationModel?
4. Provenance interface for each service
   • contextual or context free?
5. Provenance policies
   • issues & alternative architectures
   • coping with a loose-coupled, component based world

• Provenance isn't just workflow enactment

Planning towards IF-6 (jan 2004)

Initial thoughts MarkGreenwood - 28 Sep 2003, revised 3 Nov 2003

• provenance contribution to InformationModel - priority high, depends on other InformationModel work, effort 2 weeks
• provenance section on web site and TWiki ProvenanceData - priority high, ongoing, effort 1 week
• NeSC annotation/provenance workshop ( http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/304/index.html )- priority high, 1-3 Dec 2003, effort 1 week
• documentation of provenance
  • provenance discussion paper - priority medium, depends on InformationModel, myGrid v1.0, good examples, effort 2 weeks - target NeSC workshop
  • in myGrid v1.0 - priority medium, depends on myGrid v1.0, effort 1 week

-- NickSharman - 23 Sep 2003