Presentations on State of the Art

Presentations on Existing Work on Provenance

Starting February to July 2010, the group will be developing a report on the state of the art in provenance. To facilitate this, we are devoting some of our weekly telecons to presentations and discussions of topics of general interest. Each telecon is assigned a topic or a theme. We distribute read-ahead documents to the group if possible, have a lead discussant give a short presentation (15mins) that hits major points people should be aware of, and spend most of the telecon in a moderated discussion.

Topics, Readings, Presentations, and Notes

Topics discussed to date are:

• 12 Feb 10: Theme is eGovernment.
  • Invited participants: John Sheridan, Office of Public Sector Information, UK National Archives; Hans J (Jochen) Scholl, University of Washington, President of the Digital Government Society of North America; Yigal Arens, University of Southern California's Information Science Institute, Treasurer of the Digital Government Society of North America.
  • Notes, thanks to Christine Runnegar.

• 19 Feb 10: Topic is the Open Provenance Model (OPM).
  • Confirmed presenter: Luc Moreau, Southampton University.
  • Suggested readings:
    • OPM Core specification v1.1
    • The Open Provenance Vision (in chapter 5).
    • A presentation on OPM
    • Current XML schema
    • Current OWL ontology
    • Formalisation of OPM (with Natalia Kwasnikowska and Jan Van den Bussche)
    • Early proposal to map Dublin Core to OPM (by Simon Miles)
    • Early proposal for collections in OPM (by Luc Moreau, Paolo Missier, Paul Groth, Simon Miles)
  • Slides, presented by Luc Moreau.
  • Notes, thanks to Paolo Missier.

• 26 Feb 10: Theme is provenance in databases.
  • Confirmed presenters: James Cheney (University of Edinburgh), Susan Davidson (University of Pennsylvania), Wang-Chiew Tan (University of California, Santa Cruz), and Peter Buneman (University of Edinburgh).
  • Suggested readings:
    • Buneman, P. 2006. How to cite curated databases and how to make them citable. SSDBM 2006:195-203.
    • Buneman, P., Cheney, J., Tan, W., and Vansummeren, S. 2008. Curated databases. PODS 2008: 1-12.
    • Buneman, P. and Tan, W-C. Provenance in databases. SIGMOD 2007: 1171-1173.
    • Susan B. Davidson, Juliana Freire: Provenance and scientific workflows: challenges and opportunities. SIGMOD 2008:1345-1350
  • Notes, thanks to Luc Moreau.

• 05 Mar 10: Topic is named graphs.
  • Confirmed presenter: Chris Bizer, Free University of Berlin. Participant: Pat Hayes, IHMC.
  • Suggested readings:
    • Jeremy Carroll, Christian Bizer, Patrick Hayes, Patrick Stickler. Named Graphs. Journal of Web Semantics, Vol. 3, Issue 4, 2005.
    • Christian Bizer, Richard Cyganiak. Quality-driven information filtering using the WIQA policy framework. Journal of Web Semantics, Vol. 7, Issue 1, 2009.
    • SPARQL Query Language for RDF - W3C Recommendation, Section: RDF Dataset
    • Christian Bizer, Richard Cyganiak. The TriG Syntax
  • Slides, presented by Chris Bizer.
  • Notes, thanks to Jun Zhao.
• 26 Mar 10: Topic is Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.
  • Confirmed presenters: Kai Eckert, University of Mannheim; Michael Panzer, OCLC; Thomas Baker, DCMI Ltd.
  • Suggested readings:
    • DCMI Usage Board Review of Collections Application Profile
    • Administrative Components Metadata
    • Dublin Core Metadata Basics
    • Dublin Core Specifications
• 16 Apr 10: Topic is the Proof Markup Language (PML).
  • Confirmed presenters: Deborah McGuinness, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
  • Suggested readings:
    • Paulo Pinheiro da Silva and Deborah L. McGuinness and Richard Fikes. A Proof Markup Language for Semantic Web Services. Information Systems. Volume 31, Issues 4-5, June-July 2006, Pages 381-395.
    • PML applications:
      • provenance for extracted information/knowledge: J. William Murdock, Deborah McGuinness, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, Chris Welty, and David Ferrucci. Explaining Conclusions from Diverse Knowledge Sources. In Proceedings of the 5th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2006), Athens, GA, USA, p. 861-872, November 2006.
      • PML-based trust computation: Ilya Zaihrayeu, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva and Deborah L. McGuinness. IWTrust: Improving User Trust in Answers from the Web. In Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Trust Management (iTrust2005), Springer, Rocquencourt, France, pages 384-392, 2005.
      • PML visualization and user interfaces: Nicholas Del Rio and Paulo Pinheiro da Silva. Probe-It! Visualization Support for Provenance. In Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 2007), Lake Tahoe, NV/CA, November 26-28, 2007.
  • Slides, presented by Paulo Pinheiro da Silva.
  • Notes, thanks to Paul Groth.
• 7 May 2010: Discussion on security and digital signatures.
  • Confirmed participant: Thomas Roessler, W3C.
  • Security issues in provenance use cases
  • Notes, thanks to Olaf Hartig.
• 14 May 2010: Topics are the 'Provenance Vocabulary and the Provenir Ontology.
  • Confirmed presenters: Jun Zhao, University of Oxford; Olaf Hartig, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Satya Sahoo, Wright State University.
  • Suggested readings:
    • Olaf Hartig and Jun Zhao: Publishing and Consuming Provenance Metadata on the Web of Linked Data. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Provenance and Annotation Workshop (IPAW), Troy, New York, USA, June 2010.
    • Olaf Hartig and Jun Zhao: Guide to the Provenance Vocabulary
    • Provenir ontology
    • Provenir ontology Applications:
      • in Biomedical Informatics
      • in Workflow Provenance
      • in Sensor Web
    • Provenance Management Framework
    • Provenance Tracking in RDF
  • Slides:
    • Slides for Provenance Vocabulary, presented by Olaf Hartig.
    • Slides for Provenir Ontology, presented by Satya Sahoo.
  • Notes, thanks to Sam Coppens.

• 28 May 2010: Provenance for multimedia data.
  • Confirmed presenter: Raphaël Troncy, EURECOM.
  • Readings:
    • Daniel Oberle, S. Lamparter, S. Grimm, D. Vrandecic, Steffen Staab, and Aldo Gangemi. Towards Ontologies for Formalizing Modularization and Communication in Large Software Systems. Journal of Applied Ontology, 1(2):163–202, 2006.
    • Aldo Gangemi, Peter Mika. Understanding the Semantic Web through Descriptions and Situations. In On The Move 2003 Conferences (OTM2003), pages 689-706, 2003.
  • Slides
  • Notes, thanks to Irini Fundulaki.
• 4 June 2010: Presentation on PREMIS.
  • Confirmed participants: Sam Coppens, IBBT; Rebecca Guenther, Library of Congress
  • Slides
  • Readings:
    • Data dictionary
    • Summary
    • Guidelines for using PREMIS with METS for exchange

If you would like to suggest additional topics, please bring them up a the weekly telecons or email the chair.