EU Provenance: progress update

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EU Provenance progress update

• Professor Luc Moreau
• L.Moreau_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk
• University of Southampton
• www.gridprovenance.org

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EU Provenance Team

• University of Southampton
• Luc Moreau, Victor Tan, Paul Groth, Simon Miles,
  Sofia Tsasakou, Sheng Jiang
• IBM UK (Project Coordinator)
• John Ibbotson, Neil Hardman, Alexis Biller
• University of Wales, Cardiff
• Omer Rana, Arnaud Contes, Vikas Deora
• Universitad Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC)
• Steven Willmott, Javier Vazquez
• SZTAKI
• Laszlo Varga, Arpad Andics
• German Aerospace
• Andreas Schreiber, Guy Kloss, Frank Danneman

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The Vision
Finance
Distribution
Aerospace
Standardising the documentation of Business
Processes
Healthcare
Automobile
Pharmaceutical

• Compliance check
• Rerun/Reproduce
• Analyse

Query
Slide from John Ibbotson
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Current Solutions

• Proprietary, Monolithic
• Silos, Closed
• Do not inter-operate with other applications
• Not adaptable to new regulations

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Provenance

• Oxford English Dictionary
• the fact of coming from some particular source or
  quarter origin, derivation
• the history or pedigree of a work of art,
  manuscript, rare book, etc.
• concretely, a record of the ultimate derivation
  and passage of an item
• through its various owners.
• Our definition the provenance of a piece of data
  is the process that led to that piece of data
• Our aim is to conceive a computer-based
  representation of provenance that allows us to
  perform useful analysis and reasoning to support
  our use cases

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First Public Release October 2005 Second Public
Release February 2006 User Requirements Feb
2005 Technical Requirements Feb 2005
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Standardisation Options
White Paper March 2006 About to initiate GGF and
Industrial Interest
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Reference Implementation

• GT4 based implementation
• Offers recording and querying interfaces
• OGSA-DAI backend

First Initial Functional Release March 06
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Opportunities for Collaboration

• Clock is ticking
• Nov 2006 end of project
• Collaboration needs to be focused and directly
  related to the technical needs of the project
• TG6.6, through SIMDAT requirements
• Discussions with OntoGrid
• Training Session planned
• Standardisation
• Best Practice
• Case studies
• Methodology application

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