The provenance of electronic data

Luc Moreaus; Paul Groth; Simon Miles; Javier Vazquez-Salceda; John Ibbotson; Sheng Jiangs; Steve Munroe; Omer Rana; Andreas Schreiber; Victor Tan; Laszlo Varga

doi:10.1145/1330311.1330323

The provenance of electronic data

Luc Moreaus, Paul Groth, Simon Miles, Javier Vazquez-Salceda, John Ibbotson, Sheng Jiangs, Steve Munroe, Omer Rana, Andreas Schreiber, Victor Tan, Laszlo Varga

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Abstract

In the study of ﬁne art, provenance refers to the documented history of some art object. Given that documented history, the object attains an authority that allows scholars to appreciate its importance with respect to other works, whereas, in the absence of such history, the object may be treated with some skepticism. Our IT landscape is evolving as illustrated by applications that are open, composed dynamically, and that discover results and services on the ﬂy. Against this challenging background, it is crucial for users to be able to have conﬁdence in the results produced by such applications. If the provenance of data produced by computer systems could be determined as it can for some works of art, then users, in their daily applications, would be able to interpret and judge the quality of data better. We introduce a provenance lifecycle and advocate an open approach based on two key principles to support a notion of provenance in computer systems: documentation of execution and user-tailored provenance queries.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	52 - 58
Number of pages	7
Journal	COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM
Volume	51
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1330311.1330323
Publication status	Published - Apr 2008

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