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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=781510812-14092007>Hello,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=781510812-14092007>I'm just trying to
find my way through the background on this software, and thought see if anyone
could point me in the right direction.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=781510812-14092007>I first came to
swift through reading the original Chimera paper from
2002. </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=781510812-14092007>The ability to distribute jobs across different
machines is less interesting to me than the idea of tracking provenance for
complex creations. Is there a way that I can get this kind of structured
provenance information out of swift, or a related tool? Ideally, it would
be structured similarly to the virtual data schema I saw in the 2002 Chimera
paper.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=781510812-14092007>I have taken a
look at the KML & XML files, and they seem to be more or less fit the
bill. (KML seems to have derivations - invocation-specific information
that's more or less a direct translation of the swiftscript, and the XML file
seems to have generic procedure metadata, the transformations) Are there
any tools available that can manipulate this information for other purposes (or
insert it into a relational database with a proper schema?)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=781510812-14092007>If I'm overlooking
some documentation, please provide a pointer. I'm more than happy to RTFM.
:)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=781510812-14092007><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Thanks</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>--</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>M. David Allen</FONT></DIV>
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