[provenance-challenge] Re: Early Success For The Fourth Provenance Challenge

[Shiyong Lu]

Thank you Luc and Paul. Both the PCs and OPM activities have been
very helpful to the research in our group. We will surely follow up the
activities in W3C.

All the best

Shiyong

Dr. Shiyong Lu
Associate Professor, Director
Scientific Workflow Research Laboratory
Department of Computer Science
Wayne State University
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On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Luc Moreau <L.Moreau at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

>
>
> Dear all,
>
> Back at IPAW 2006, in Chicago, we discussed the needs for provenance
> standardization. This discussion initiated the successful Provenance
> Challenge series, with three editions PC1, PC2, and PC3 [1].  The
> Provenance Challenge activity was instrumental in designing the Open
> Provenance Model [2], a model for provenance with take-up well beyond
> the original Provenance Challenge community.
>
> Events at the World Wide Consortium Incubator on Provenance [3] have
> taken over our initial move towards a last challenge PC4.  The
> incubator group, including some of us, dedicated significant time
> towards making the Incubator a success.  This resulted in the recent
> creation of the W3C Provenance Working Group, several of us are also
> involved in.
>
> Since we all have a limited bandwidth for community activities, it is
> not realistic to run both activities in parallel. Furthermore, the
> inter-operability motivation of PC4 is being pursued by the W3C
> Provenance Working Group, with the rigor of a standardization body.
>
> Given this, we feel it would be best to end the Provenance Challenge
> series, and declare its success in having set the agenda for
> provenance inter-operability. This would not be the end of this
> mailing list or the wiki. These facilities are welcome to be used for
> continued community building, announcements, etc.
>
> The success of the challenge is really a testament to the vitality and
> dedication of this community.
>
> Does it mean there is no more challenge related to provenance? Surely
> not, but they will simply be tackled in a different form.
>
> Obviously, we welcome any comments or questions.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Luc Moreau and Paul Groth
>
>
> [1] http://twiki.ipaw.info/bin/view/Challenge/WebHome
> [2] http://openprovenance.org/
> [3]
> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/prov/wiki/W3C_Provenance_Incubator_Group_Wiki
> [4] http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/wiki/Main_Page
>
> --
> Professor Luc Moreau
> Electronics and Computer Science   tel:   +44 23 8059 4487
> University of Southampton          fax:   +44 23 8059 2865
> Southampton SO17 1BJ               email: l.moreau at ecs.soton.ac.uk
> United Kingdom                     http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lavm
>
>


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Best regards

-Shiyong
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