[Swift-devel] Open Provenance Model log exporter

[Ben Clifford]

On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Ian Foster wrote:

> That sounds interesting. Are there any decent tools for 
> analyzing/processing OPM logs that we can make use of?

Not that I'm aware of, as its all very new - a (perhaps vain - cf CEDPS) 
hope in participating in PC3 is that we'll entangle ourselves with things 
that consume what we produce.

> One issue that I recall from past discussions was that Swift's 
> functional model makes provenance in some ways "simpler" than in other 
> systems. Do we lose that simplicity when we export to OPM?

I think that OPM doesn't make things any more complicated. What looks like 
a basic relation in the Swift provenance work so far pretty much maps into 
a basic relation in OPM. So I am (surprisingly?) not very cynical about 
the model.

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