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Abstract

Given the increased interest in provenance in the Semantic Web area and in the Web community at large, the W3C established the Provenance Incubator Group as part of the W3C Incubator Activity with a charter to provide a state-of-the art understanding and develop a roadmap in the area of provenance and possible recommendations for standardization efforts. This seminar summarizes the findings of the group. Provenance is a crucial aspect of understanding, trusting, reusing, and reproducing data. In particular, in open environments such as the web,provenance becomes critical. As the Semantic Web becomes a reality with the introduction of massive amounts of Linked Data, it becomes critical that machines as well as humans. Given this context, the W3C chartered an incubator group whose goal was to provide a state-of-the art understanding and develop a roadmap in area of provenance for the Web and in particular the Semantic Web. The Provenance Incubator Group finished its work just recently in December 2010. In this talk, I present the outcomes the Incubator group including a framework for thinking about provenance research, use cases and requirements, and the roadmap. Additionally, I will discuss the group’s proposed charter for a W3C working group to standardize an interchange language for provenance and what such a standard would enable from a research perspective.

Biography

Paul Groth is postdoctoral researcher in the Knowledge Represenation and Reasoning Group at the VU University of Amsterdam. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southampton (2007) and has done research at the University of Southern California and the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. His research focuses on mechanisms for enabling multi-institutional systems especially in the area of science. This includes research in data provenance, scientific workflow, knowledge sharing and applications of network analysis with over 50 publications in these areas (H-Index 18). He has served on the program committee of major international conferences including the World Wide Web Conference, the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, and the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. Dr. Groth was organizer of the Third Provenance Challenge (an international multi-team effort investigating the interoperability of provenance systems) and actively participated in the W3C provenance incubator group. He currently works on the Semantically Mapping Science project (http://www.sms-project.org) developing new approaches for analyzing scientific fields based on Web activity. He writes the blog http://thinklinks.wordpress.com. More info at http://www.few.vu.nl/~pgroth

Presentation Slides

The slides from the presentation are available here: Provenance XG Overview