Provenance and Annotation of Data

by Moreau, Luc

• ISBN13: 9783540463023
• ISBN10: 354046302X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-13
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the thoroughly referred postproceeding of the International Provenance and Annotation Workshops, IPAW 2006, held in Chicago, Il, USA in May 2006.The 26 revised full papers presented together with 2 keynote papers were carefully selected for presentation during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The paper are organized in topical sections on applications in software development, organ transplantation management, scientific simulation, stream filtering, and e-science; data semantics and semantic Web; workflows; models of provenance, annotations, and processes; and provenance systems.

Author Biography

This book constitutes the thoroughly referred postproceeding of the International Provenance and Annotation Workshops, IPAW 2006, held in Chicago, Il, USA in May 2006.The 26 revised full papers presented together with 2 keynote papers were carefully selected for presentation during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The paper are organized in topical sections on applications in software development, organ transplantation management, scientific simulation, stream filtering, and e-science; data semantics and semantic Web; workflows; models of provenance, annotations, and processes; and provenance systems.

Table of Contents

Keynotes
Automatic Generation of Workflow Provenance	p. 1
Managing Rapidly-Evolving Scientific Workflows	p. 10
Applications
Virtual Logbooks and Collaboration in Science and Software Development	p. 19
Applying Provenance in Distributed Organ Transplant Management	p. 28
Provenance Implementation in a Scientific Simulation Environment	p. 37
Towards Low Overhead Provenance Tracking in Near Real-Time Stream Filtering	p. 46
Enabling Provenance on Large Scale e-Science Applications	p. 55
Discussion
Semantics 1
Harvesting RDF Triples	p. 64
Mapping Physical Formats to Logical Models to Extract Data and Metadata: The Defuddle Parsing Engine	p. 73
Annotation and Provenance Tracking in Semantic Web Photo Libraries	p. 82
Metadata Catalogs with Semantic Representations	p. 90
Combining Provenance with Trust in Social Networks for Semantic Web Content Filtering	p. 101
Workflow
Recording Actor State in Scientific Workflows	p. 109
Provenance Collection Support in the Kepler Scientific Workflow System	p. 118
A Model for User-Oriented Data Provenance in Pipelined Scientific Workflows	p. 133
Applying the Virtual Data Provenance Model	p. 148
Models of Provenance, Annotations and Processes
A Provenance Model for Manually Curated Data	p. 162
Issues in Automatic Provenance Collection	p. 171
Electronically Querying for the Provenance of Entities	p. 184
AstroDAS: Sharing Assertions Across Astronomy Catalogues Through Distributed Annotation	p. 193
Gong Show
Systems
Security Issues in a SOA-Based Provenance System	p. 203
Implementing a Secure Annotation Service	p. 212
Performance Evaluation of the Karma Provenance Framework for Scientific Workflows	p. 222
Exploring Provenance in a Distributed Job Execution System	p. 237
gLite Job Provenance	p. 246
Semantics 2
An Identity Crisis in the Life Sciences	p. 254
CombeChem: A Case Study in Provenance and Annotation Using the Semantic Web	p. 270
Principles of High Quality Documentation for Provenance: A Philosophical Discussion	p. 278
Final Discussion
Author Index	p. 287
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