[provenance-challenge] Results of PC3 meeting at e-Science

[Paul Groth]

Hi All:

First, thanks to everyone who attended. We had great attendance for an  
informal meeting by my count 18 people were in the room.

The outcome of the discussion was as follows. (Please add anything if  
I left out.)

- We selected the Microsoft Pan-Starrs workflow. It seemed to provide  
a good combination of interesting constructs (if-then statements,  
collections), implementation (Yogesh will make it available in java as  
well as .Net) and integration with databases.

- It was suggested that the workflow could be extended in various ways  
to enable investigation into different provenance questions. An  
example given was the addition of user input to the workflow to  
capture this in the provenance trace.

The following timetable was suggested:
* Jan 31: Availability of the exectuable workflow (Yogesh)
* Jan 31: Posting of provenance questions and the necessary workflow  
extensions for those questions
* Roughly end of May: Provenance Challenge 3 to be held.

- For PC3, we will try to find a venue in Europe. We are looking to  
colocate with an existing conference. I will try to find a venue if  
anyone has any suggestions, let me know. Paolo suggested the Data  
Integration in the Life Sciences Workshop in Manchester (http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/DILS09/ 
). It's being held at the end of July.

Thanks,
Paul

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Paul Groth, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Information Sciences Institute
University of Southern California
pgroth at isi.edu
Tel:  310 448 8482  Fax: 310 822 0751
http://www.isi.edu/~pgroth/
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