[provenance-challenge] Use Cases for Provenance Workshop

[Simon Miles]

Dear provenance challenge participants,

James Cheney asked for the following workshop notice to be passed on
to potentially interested parties.  As it may interest some on this
list, I hope you don't mind me passing it on.

Thanks,
Simon

Forwarded from James Cheney:

We are planning a one-day workshop on Use Cases for Provenance in
eScience, to be held in Edinburgh on April 20, 2009, as part of an
eScience Institute Thematic Program on Principles of Provenance.

The goal of the workshop is to identify usage scenarios, open problems
and ambitious goals for research concerning provenance in eScience and
scientific data management. Presentations need not be on technical
research contributions, but should introduce or clarify issues
concerning provenance, accountability, integrity, and data quality in
a relevant discipline. Such information would be important raw
material to help computer science researchers and eScience
applications developers focus on the right problems.

We wish to involve participants representing a variety of perspectives:
      * scientific disciplines in which sophisticated database, Grid, or
        eScience technology is already in widespread use (such as
        physics, astronomy and biology)
      * disciplines where such technology is not widely used but
        conceivably will be in the future, and
      * researchers and developers working on provenance and scientific
        data management or eScience technology

Some travel and accommodation support for speakers may be available
from the Theme (depending on attendance).  We are coordinating with
the EU CASPAR preservation project which may be planning another
provenance-related event in Edinburgh in April.  We also intend to
webcast the talks and allowing remote participants to participate in
discussions using Skype or email.

More information about the Theme and about this workshop can be found at:

http://wiki.esi.ac.uk/Principles_of_Provenance
http://wiki.esi.ac.uk/UseCasesForProvenanceWorkshop

--James Cheney
(on behalf of Peter Buneman and Bertram Ludaescher, Theme co-organizers)

-- 
Dr Simon Miles
Lecturer, Department of Computer Science
Kings College London, WC2R 2LS, UK
+44 (0)20 7848 1166