EU Provenance: progress update

Professor Luc MoreauL.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.ukUniversity of Southampton

www.gridprovenance.org

EU Provenance Team

University of Southampton Luc Moreau, Victor Tan, Paul Groth, Simon Miles, Sofia

Tsasakou, Sheng Jiang IBM UK (Project Coordinator)

John Ibbotson, Neil Hardman, Alexis Biller University of Wales, Cardiff

Omer Rana, Arnaud Contes, Vikas Deora Universitad Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC)

Steven Willmott, Javier Vazquez SZTAKI

Laszlo Varga, Arpad Andics German Aerospace

Andreas Schreiber, Guy Kloss, Frank Danneman

ProvenanceStore

Reco

rd

The Vision

Query

Compliance check Rerun/Reproduce Analyse

Standardising thedocumentation of

Business Processes

Provenance Architecture Methodology

Apply

Healthcare

DistributionFinance

Aerospace

Automobile

Pharmaceutical

Slide from John Ibbotson

DLR

UPC+SZTAKI

Current Solutions

Proprietary, Monolithic

Silos, Closed Do not inter-operate

with other applications

Not adaptable to new regulations

Provenance

Oxford English Dictionary: the fact of coming from some particular source or

quarter; origin, derivation the history or pedigree of a work of art, manuscript,

rare book, etc.; concretely, a record of the ultimate derivation and

passage of an item through its various owners.

Our definition: the provenance of a piece of data is the process that led to that piece of data

Our aim is to conceive a computer-based representation of provenance that allows us to perform useful analysis and reasoning to support our use cases

First Public Release October 2005

Second Public Release February 2006

User Requirements Feb 2005

Technical Requirements Feb 2005

Standardisation Options

APIsProgrammatic

inter-op

Recording and querying

InterfacesService inter-op

Provenance ModelData inter-op

White Paper March 2006

About to initiate GGF and Industrial Interest

Reference Implementation

GT4 based implementation

Offers recording and querying interfaces

OGSA-DAI backend

AxisHandler

AxisHandler

Provenance Store

Backend Interface

XML Rel DB

…Backend Stores

PS Client Side

Library

PS Client Side

Library

Web ServiceWS Client

Query Actor WS

PS Client Side

Library

WS Calls

Java Calls

AxisHandler

AxisHandler

AxisHandler

AxisHandler

Provenance Store

Backend Interface

XML Rel DB

…Backend Stores

Backend Interface

XML Rel DB

…Backend Stores

PS Client Side

Library

PS Client Side

Library

PS Client Side

Library

PS Client Side

Library

Web ServiceWS Client Web ServiceWS Client

Query Actor WS

PS Client Side

Library

Query Actor WS

PS Client Side

Library

WS Calls

Java Calls

First Initial Functional Release March 06

Opportunities for Collaboration

Clock is ticking: Nov 2006: end of project

Collaboration needs to be focused and directly related to the technical needs of the project

TG6.6, through SIMDAT requirements Discussions with OntoGrid

Training Session planned Standardisation Best Practice

Case studies Methodology application

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