[provenance-challenge] Call for position statements "PROV: Three Years Later"
Luc Moreau
l.moreau at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Apr 28 12:27:10 BST 2016
Dear all,
Second and final call for position statements for "PROV: Three Years Later".
Regards,
Luc
On 17/03/2016 19:26, Luc Moreau wrote:
>
>
> A workshop endorsed byW3C <https://www.w3.org/>atProvenance Week
> <http://www2.mitre.org/public/provenance2016/>, June 6, 2016,
> Washington DC.
> http://provenanceweek.org/2016/p3yl/
>
>
> Organizing Committee
>
> Luc Moreau (chair) University of Southampton
> Phil Archer W3C
> Reza B'Far Oracle
> Yolanda Gil Information Science Institute
> Paul Groth Elsevier Labs
> Timothy Lebo Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
> Deborah Nichols The MITRE Corporation
> Curt Tilmes National Aeronautics and Space Administration
>
>
> Abstract
>
> Provenance Week 2016 will take place three years after the
> publication of the PROV recommendations and notes. The purpose of
> this workshop is twofold: 1) to collect practical experiences with
> using PROV in real-world applications so that we can take stock of
> its impact, and 2) to identify interoperability challenges with
> the current PROV specifications. The aim is to develop a community
> consensus around the priorities for PROV.
>
>
> Background
>
> Provenance, defined as a record that describes the people,
> institutions, entities, and activities involved in producing,
> influencing, or delivering a piece of data or a thing, is crucial
> in deciding whether information is to be trusted, how it should be
> integrated with other diverse information sources, and how to give
> credit to its originators when reusing it. In many environments,
> such as the Web or the medical context where users find
> information that is uncertain or questionable, provenance can help
> those users to make trust judgements.
>
> In 2013, the World Wide Web Consortium published PROV, a standard
> for expressing, sharing, and discovering provenance on the Web. It
> consists of a conceptual data model (PROV-DM
> <https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-dm/>), an OWL2 ontology (PROV-O
> <https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/>), a textual notation (PROV-N
> <https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-n/>), a set of constraints to check
> the consistency of provenance (PROV-CONSTRAINTS
> <https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-constraints/>), an XML schema
> (PROV-XML <https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-xml/>), conventions for
> sharing and discovering provenance (PROV-AQ
> <https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-aq/>), and various other more focused
> specifications. Since then, PROV has seen adoption in some
> flagship applications, continued strong interest by the academic
> community, and promising tentative take-up in other
> standardization organizations, such asHL7
> <https://www.hl7.org/fhir/provenance.html>andOGC
> <http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/initiatives/ows-10>.
>
> Three years later, it is time for provenance practitioners to take
> stock, reflect on their practical experiences with using PROV in
> their applications, understand the impact of PROV, and identify
> interoperability challenges and shortcomings with the current
> specifications. We invite the community to submit short position
> statements, which will be presented in "lightning talks" at a
> workshop on June 6, during Provenance Week. Talks will be grouped
> by topics of interest. The workshop organisers will act as
> facilitators, with the aim to develop a community consensus around
> the priorities for PROV. Position statements will be published
> online as a record of the workshop.
>
>
> Topics of Interest
>
> The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics for position
> statements reporting on*experiences*and*impact*:
>
> * API and software that use PROV
> * Datasets and resources that use PROV
> * Impact of provenance
> * Scalability
> * Presentation and explanation of provenance to users
> * Multi-level provenance (provenance of provenance)
> * Tradeoff and choices of different serializations
>
> The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics for position
> statements reporting on*interoperability*and*requirements*:
>
> * Interoperability issues across serializations or within
> serializations
> * Missing features, expressivity shortcomings
> * Adoption hurdles
> * Security and provenance, provenance and signatures
> * Embedding provenance in various types of documents
> * Graphical representation of provenance
> * Inter-operability across standards
> * Extensions of PROV for additional requirements in different
> domains and applications
> * Abstraction of PROV records
>
> Authors are strongly encouraged, where appropriate, to make an
> explicit link between requirements and application needs.
>
>
> Workshop Format
>
> Following this call for position statements, the workshop will be
> structured as follows.
>
> * "Lightning talks" grouped by themes
> * Open discussion about experiences and priorities
> * Next steps.
>
>
> Timetable
>
> * March 18, 2016: Call published
> * May 11, 2016: Deadline for submission
> * May 15, 2016: Workshop programme published
> * May 20, 2016:Registration closes
> <http://www2.mitre.org/public/provenance2016/contact.html>
> * June 6, 2016: Workshop
>
>
> Submission Procedure
>
> Submit short position statements (ideally less than a page)
> throughhttps://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pw2016(please
> select the track "PROV: Three Years Later").
>
> To facilitate publication on the Web, authors are encouraged to
> submit documents in HTML, using theRASH framework
> <https://github.com/essepuntato/rash>(Research Articles in
> Simplified HTML). Mutliple submissions for different experiences
> and/or requirements are welcome. As we are keen to gather as many
> experiences and requirements as possible, it is acceptable for
> authors to submit position statements, even if they cannot
> physically attend the workshop, as long as they inform the organizers.
>
>
> Venue
>
> ProvenanceWeek 2016
> <http://www2.mitre.org/public/provenance2016/index.html>, June
> 6-9, 2016, is being hosted byThe MITRE Corporation
> <http://www2.mitre.org/public/provenance2016/venue.html>in McLean,
> Virginia, USA, a short metro ride from Washington D.C. The
> workshops IPAW and TAPP will be co-located during the week. The
> workshop "PROV: 3 Years Later" will take place on the afternoon of
> June 6. Entry to the workshop is free but we need to know who is
> coming (note that registrations close on May 20!). All registered
> attendees will be listed on the workshop Web site. Registration is
> through the Provenance Weekregistration page
> <http://www2.mitre.org/public/provenance2016/registration.html>.
> Participants are cordially invited to register for subsequent
> Provenance Week events.
>
> --
> Professor Luc Moreau
> Head of the Web and Internet Science Group
> Electronics and Computer Science tel: +44 23 8059 4487
> University of Southampton twitter: @lucmoreau
> Southampton SO17 1BJ, UKhttp://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lavm
>
>
--
Professor Luc Moreau
Head of the Web and Internet Science Group
Electronics and Computer Science tel: +44 23 8059 4487
University of Southampton twitter: @lucmoreau
Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lavm
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