[provenance-challenge] PC3 Workshop Follow-up

[Paul Groth]

Hi Everyone,

I wanted to thank everyone who attended the PC3 Workshop. I think it  
was a great success with lots of active discussion about the challenge  
and how to move forward with OPM. I wanted to provide a few key  
highlights:

- 14 teams and 28 workshop participants.
- I meet many participants using OPM outside the context of the  
challenge. This is excellent.
- There was a wide range of issues that participants brought up but  
there were several common issues that most teams ran into. For  
example, difficulty in finding values and lack of types on OPM  
entities. These common issues will be addressed in a forthcoming  
revision of OPM.
- During the workshop a lightweight governance model for changing OPM  
was endorsed. This model allows anyone in the community to propose,  
comment on  and vote on changes. The web pages describing this will be  
up in the coming week. The next revision of OPM will follow this  
process.
- We will have an open CFP for a journal focusing on OPM and PC3. We  
are aiming for a date in December for submissions.
- There were some great ideas for a fourth challenge focusing on end- 
to-end provenance and/or queries. We will begin to plan for PC4 after  
the journal submission date.

These were just some of the highlights. I'm very impressed with this  
community and our direction forward. Thank you all for your  
participation. I encourage everyone to spread the word about OPM to  
those interested in provenance.

One final note, it would be great if all teams could post their  
presentations to the wiki for archival. Also, if you have any final  
additions to your pages please put those up as well.

Regards,
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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