Provenance Resources

Projects

• FEARLUS-G FEARLUS-G builds the Semantic Grid by using an OWL ontology to represent its experiment models, parameters and execution processes. However, since both domain independent and specific semantics are integrated in their ontology, it makes it difficult to reuse it in other Grid applications.
• CombeChem Similar to myGrid, CombeChem^? uses RDF to represent the experiment process and the semantics of data products. The large scale RDF repository from CombeChem^? brings great challenge to the Semantic Web technology in the real world.
• PASOA project ( LucMoreau )
• PASOA aims to investigate the concept of provenance and its use for reasoning about the quality and accuracy of data and services in the context of eScience. The problems of determining the origin of a result or deciding when results of analysis are no longer valid become important concerns in open Grid environment, where providers are dynamically organised in virtual organanisations to offer services to the community. In this context, provenance data is an annotation able to explain how a particular result has been derived.
• The Chimera Virtual Data System (part of GriPhyN - the Grid Physics Network) is concerned with data derivation. The Chimera system is based on the virtual data concept. Virtual data is described by the workflow "recipe" that can be used to create the data when required, by transforming other virtual or real data. There is a close correlation between virtual data and provenance in reasoning about what has been done and what could be done.
• The Collaboratory for the Multi-Scale Chemical Science (CMCS) In this project the terms data pedigree and dependency browsing are used. For an introduction see the technical details page. http://cmcs.org/technical.php
• The eBankUK project. eBankUK is a JISC-funded project which is a part of the Semantic Grid Programme.
  • This new initiative is set in the context of the JISC Information Environment, JISC funded development supporting end-users to discover, access, use and publish resources as part of their teaching, learning and research activities. The eBank UK pilot service will demonstrate linking of research data with other derived information.
  • The project will produce a report on provenance in 2004 based on an overview of current reasearch, issues and challenges
• myGrid itself ( http://www.mygrid.org.uk/myGrid/web/components/ProvenanceData/ ) - for details start at Links below.

Workshops

• On 16 & 17 Oct 2002, there was a Workshop on Data Derivation and Provenance collocated with GGF6. You can read the position papers and talks (including one of each from Carole Goble) from this workshop here.
• The workshop on Semantic Web Technologies for Searching and Retrieving Scientific Data at ISWC October 2003
• NeSC workshop on provenance and annotation 1 - 3 Dec 2003. Online presentation material including presentations from Carole Goble and Luc Moreau

People

• Peter Buneman is leading researcher in data provenance now at Edinburgh. His former group at PENN provide an executive summary and publication links http://db.cis.upenn.edu/Research/provenance.html
• Daniele Turi works for the new generation of RDF provenance metadata in the myGrid project.
• Chris Wroe who has contributed to the KAVE store in the myGrid project.
• Mark Greenwood is working on provenance in the myGrid project ( provenance on myGrid website )
• Jun Zhao has a home page with some provenance related links. She is doing a PhD in the area of provenance and annotation in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester.

Papers

A list of collected provenance papers and their bibtex see: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~zhaoj/provenance_publication.html The workshops above are the best source of an indication of research in this area. For more detail it is best to start at the links to projects with a specific interest in provenance. For fine-grained (database) provenance the research group at PENN has a good publication list, and set of references to their research proposal Provenance position papers in the provenance workshop: http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~yongzh/position_papers.html Provenance publications collected by PASOA For myGrid papers, see main website http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~zhaoj/publication.html Tracking provenance of RDF data from IBM developerWorks

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Links

• ProvenanceData - "home" page for provenance on myGrid Twiki
• provenance of the word "provenance"
• Provenance, from Wikipedia concentrates on the context of works of art, proving that an artifact is not a forgery and a seller has the right to sell it.

-- JunZhao - 11 Aug 2005