Electronically Querying for the Provenance of Entities

Simon Miles

doi:10.1007/11890850_19

Electronically Querying for the Provenance of Entities

Simon Miles

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The provenance of entities, whether electronic data or physical artefacts, is crucial information in practically all domains, including science, business and art. The increased use of software in automating activities provides the opportunity to add greatly to the amount we can know about an entity's history and the process by which it came to be as it is. However, it also presents difficulties: querying for the provenance of an entity could potentially return detailed information stretching back to the beginning of time, and most of it irrelevant to the querier. In this paper, we define the concept of provenance query and describe techniques that allow us to perform scoped provenance queries.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Provenance and Annotation of Data
Subtitle of host publication	International Provenance and Annotation Workshop, IPAW 2006, Chicago, IL, USA, May 3-5, 2006, Revised Selected Papers
Editors	Luc Moreau, Ian Foster
Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Pages	184 - 192
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Electronic)	9783540463030
ISBN (Print)	9783540463023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/11890850_19
Publication status	Published - 2006
Event	International Provenance and Annotation Workshop, IPAW 2006 - Chicago, IL, United States Duration: 3 May 2006 → 5 May 2006

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Volume	4145
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Conference	International Provenance and Annotation Workshop, IPAW 2006
Country/Territory	United States
City	Chicago, IL
Period	3/05/2006 → 5/05/2006

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Miles, S. (2006). Electronically Querying for the Provenance of Entities. In L. Moreau, & I. Foster (Eds.), Provenance and Annotation of Data: International Provenance and Annotation Workshop, IPAW 2006, Chicago, IL, USA, May 3-5, 2006, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 184 - 192). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 4145). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11890850_19

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Miles, S 2006, Electronically Querying for the Provenance of Entities. in L Moreau & I Foster (eds), Provenance and Annotation of Data: International Provenance and Annotation Workshop, IPAW 2006, Chicago, IL, USA, May 3-5, 2006, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4145, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 184 - 192, International Provenance and Annotation Workshop, IPAW 2006, Chicago, IL, United States, 3/05/2006. https://doi.org/10.1007/11890850_19

Electronically Querying for the Provenance of Entities. / Miles, Simon.
Provenance and Annotation of Data: International Provenance and Annotation Workshop, IPAW 2006, Chicago, IL, USA, May 3-5, 2006, Revised Selected Papers. ed. / Luc Moreau; Ian Foster. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006. p. 184 - 192 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 4145).

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