[Swift-devel] [provenance-challenge] The Third Provenance Challenge Workshop - Call for Participation (fwd)

[Ben Clifford]

I'm going to this and intend to present Swift provenance work there.

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Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 10:47:15 -0700
From: Paul Groth <pgroth at ISI.EDU>
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Subject: [provenance-challenge] The Third Provenance Challenge Workshop - Call
    for Participation

Please distribute to those that might be interested - Paul
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The Third Provenance Challenge Workshop - Call for Participation
Amsterdam June 10-11, 2009

Data products are increasingly being produced by the composition of services and
data supplied by multiple parties using a variety of data analysis, management,
and collection technologies. This approach is particular evident in e-Science
where scientists combine sensor data and shared Web-accessible databases using a
variety of local and remote data analysis routines to produce experimental
results. In such environments, provenance (also referred to as audit trail,
lineage, and pedigree) plays a critical role as it enables users to understand,
verify, reproduce, and ascertain the quality of data products.

An important challenge in the context of these compositional applications is how
to integrate the provenance data produced by different systems to be able to
construct the full provenance of complex data products. To that end, a common
data model for provenance is needed to help ease the integration of provenance
data across the heterogeneous environments used for running such applications.

To work towards interoperability across a variety of provenance systems, since
March 2nd, 14 teams from across the world have participated in the Third
Provenance Challenge. During this challenge, teams have exchanged provenance
data between their provenance systems using a common data model, the Open
Provenance Model (OPM). They developed OPM serializations in both RDF and XML,
ran provenance queries over the exchanged data, and began to create common tools
for use with OPM.

The Third Provenance Challenge Workshop will provide a forum for teams to
present their results and exchange ideas about OPM as an interoperability layer.
Additionally, the workshop will provide the community an opportunity to discuss
the future of interoperability between provenance systems and how to continue
and expand the provenance community.

Registration Info

To see the state of the art in provenance systems and be part of the
conversation, attend the Third Provenance Challenge Workshop held at Science
Park Amsterdam June 10-11. Registration is free.

To register please send e-mail with your name, address and affiliation to
pgroth at isi.edu with Register PC3 in the subject field. (Your name will be added
to the participant list on the challenge wiki.)

- More information about the challenge can be found at
http://twiki.ipaw.info/bin/view/Challenge/ThirdProvenanceChallenge

- Event details (including location, hotel info and schedule) can be found at
http://twiki.ipaw.info/bin/view/Challenge/LocalDetailsPC3

Contact:
For details or questions, contact Paul Groth (pgroth at isi.edu).

Sponsors:
Microsoft
The Virtual Laboratory for e-Science

Organizers:
Paul Groth, ISI / University of Southern California
Yogesh Simmhan, Microsoft Research
Luc Moreau, University of Southampton

Local Organizers:
Adam Belloum, University of Amsterdam
Zhiming Zhao, University of Amsterdam