* International Provenance and Annotation Workshop
(IPAW'06)*
* Chicago, Illinois, USA*
* May 3-5, 2006*
<http://www.ipaw.info/ipaw06>
*Introduction*
This workshop is a follow-up to workshops in Chicago
in October 2002
(http://www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/~foster/provenance/) and in
Edinburgh in December
2003(http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/304/). It will
further
investigate the issues of data provenance, process
documentation, data derivation, and data annotation.
In scientific, engineering and business workflows,
typically data is repeatedly copied, corrected, and
transformed as it passes through numerous databases or
services. Understanding where data has come from and
how it arrived in a database or filestore is of
crucial importance to the trust a user will put in
that data, yet this information is seldom captured
properly.
The importance of provenance goes well beyond
verification; it is
closely related to archiving and annotation, also
important in the context of scientific, engineering
and business data. Moreover, it may be used in data
discovery. Knowing the provenance of a data item may
help a user to make connections with other useful
data. Alternatively, a user may want to understand a
derivation in order to repeat it with modified
parameters, and being able to describe a derivation
may help a user to discover whether a particular kind
of analysis has already been performed.
Annotation is closely related to provenance. End users
do more than produce and consume data: they comment on
it and refer to it, and to theresults of queries upon
it. Annotation is therefore an important aspect of
communication. One user may want to highlight a point
in data space for another to investigate further. They
may wish to annotate the result of a query such that
similar queries show the annotation.
*Topics of interest*
Topics of interest to IPAW'06, include but are not
limited to:
* models of provenance and annotation
* authenticity metadata (assertions made by the
creator of a record)
* integrity metadata (assertions managed by the
preservation
environment)
* annotations (assertions made by users)
* curation metadata
* applications requiring provenance, uses cases,
methodologies
* provenance systems, functionality, protocols,
implementation
* relationship between provenance, annotation and
metadata
* provenance-based reasoning and Semantic Web
techonologies
* relationship between workflows, processes and
provenance
* security considerations for provenance
* scalability issues
* granularity of provenance
* (design) intent capturing through provenance
* legal issues relating to provenance
* provenance, business processes and compliance
*Information for Authors*
IPAW'06 encourages the submission of theoretical,
experimental,
methodological, and applications papers related to the
issue of
provenance and annotation. Papers should be no longer
than 8 pages (lncs column format). Submissions will be
peer reviewed and selected for presentation at the
workshop; papers will be evaluated on the basis of the
quality of their technical contribution, originality,
soundness, significance, presentation, understanding
of the state of the art, and overall quality.
Post-proceeedings will be published in the Lecture
Notes in Computer Science series by
Springer-Verlag(www.springeronline.com/lncs/
<http://www.springeronline.com/lncs/>). LNCS is
published, in parallel to the printed books, in
full-text electronic form via the www.springerlink.com
site. Authors will be requested to submit all
electronic files, most importantly the source files,
of all parts of their manuscript (including front
matter pages) according to the Springer instructions.
*Submission instructions*
Papers have to be submitted electronically according
to the instructions at the submission page
<http://www.ipaw.info/ipaw06/submission/>.
*Important Dates*
Submission deadline: February 10, 2006
Acceptance Notification: March 6, 2006
IPAW'06 date: May 3-5, 2006
*Location*
Chicago, Illinois, downtown Sheraton hotel.
*Programme Committee*
* Dave Berry, National e-Science Centre, UK
* Peter Buneman, University of Edinburgh, UK
* Ian Foster (co-chair), Argonne National
Lab/University of Chicago, USA
* James Frew, University of California, USA
* Jim Hendler, University of Maryland, USA
* Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK
* Reagan Moore, San Diego Supercomputer Center,
USA
* Luc Moreau (co-chair), University of
Southampton, UK
* Jim Myers, National Center for Supercomputing
Applications, USA
* York Sure, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
* Ziga Turk, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
* Mike Wilde, Argonne National Lab/University of
Chicago, USA
* Hai Zhuge, Institute of Computing Technology,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
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