IPAW'06 International Provenance and Annotation Workshop

Chicago, Illinois, USA May 3-5, 2006

http://www.ipaw.info/ipaw06/ 

This workshop is a follow-up to workshops in Chicago in October 2002 
and in Edinburgh in December 2003. It will further investigate the 
issues of data provenance, process documentation, data derivation, 
and data annotation.  Registration is now open, with information 
available from the website above.

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 
the results 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.

Workshop programme:

Day 1: Wednesday, May 3
Session 1: Welcome, keynotes
12.30 - 12.45   Welcome
12.45 - 13.15   Automatic Generation of Workflow Execution Provenance
13.15 - 14.15   Using Provenance to Streamline Data Exploration 
through Visualization

Session 2: Applications
14.30 - 14.45   Virtual Logbooks and Collaboration in Science and 
Software Development
14.45 - 15.00   Applying Provenance in Distributed Organ Transplant 
Management
15.00 - 15.15   Provenance Implementation in a Scientific Simulation 
Environment
15.15 - 15.35   Towards Low Overhead Provenance Tracking in Near 
Real-Time Stream Filtering
15.35 - 15.55   Enabling provenance on large scale e-Science 
applications

Session 3: Discussion
16.00 - 17.00   Topic TBC

Day 2: Thursday, May 4

Session 4: Semantics 1
9.00 - 9.15       Harvesting RDF Triples
9.15 - 9.35       Mapping Physical Formats to Logical Models to 
Extract Data and Metadata: The Defuddle Parsing Engine
9.35 - 9.55       Annotation and Provenance Tracking in Semantic Web 
Photo Libraries
9.55 - 10.15     Virtual Metadata Catalogs: Augmenting 
Existing Metadata Catalogs with Semantic Representations
10.15 - 10.35   Combining Provenance with Trust in Social Networks 
for Semantic Web Content Filtering

Session 5: Workflow
11.00 - 11.15   Recording Actor Provenance Data in Scientific 
Workflows
11.15 - 11.40   Provenance Collection Support in the Kepler 
Scientific Workflow System
11.40 - 12.05   A Model for User-Oriented Data Provenance in 
Pipelined
12.05 - 12.30   A Virtual Data Provenance Model

Session 6: Discussion
14.00 - 15.00   Discussion

Session 7: Models of Provenance, Annotations and Processes
15.30 - 15.50   Provenance for manually curated scientific databases
15.50 - 16.10   Implementation of a Secure Annotation Service
16.10 - 16.20   Electronically Querying for the Provenance of 
Entities
16.20 - 16.45   AstroDAS: Sharing Assertions across Astronomy 
Catalogues through Distributed Annotation

Day 3: Friday, May 5

Session 8: Systems
8.30 - 8.50       Security Issues in a SOA-based Provenance System
8.50 - 9.10       Issues in Automatic Provenance Collection
9.10 - 9.35       Performance Evaluation of the Karma Provenance 
Framework for Scientific Workflows
9.35 - 9.50       Exploring Provenance in a Distributed Job 
Execution System
9.50 - 10.05     gLite Job Provenance

Session 9: Semantics 2
10.30 - 10.55   Identity Crisis in Life Sciences
10.55 - 11.15   CombeChem: A Case Study in Provenance and Annotation 
using the Semantic Web
11.15 - 11.30   Principles of High Quality Documentation for 
Provenance: A Philosophical Discussion

Session 10: Final Discussion
11.30 - 12.00   Wrap up









 
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