Thanks Micah. This is really helpful. Now if only I can find time to read them ;)

Andrea

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> 
> Hi Andrea,
> 
> I'm aware of a number of threads of research, from the 'micro' to
> 'macro' level...
> 
> If time is short, start with these:
> 
> http://www.springerlink.com/content/edf0k68ccw3a22hu/
> http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1080343.1080346&coll=DL&dl=ACM&CFID=7
> 8882852&CFTOKEN=38740685
> http://www.mendeley.com/research/open-provenance-model-core-
> specification-v11-7/
> 
> More ...
> 
> - Margo Seltzer (as you mention) is well-known for research focusing
> on automated collection of provenance information from the hardware
> layer. See: http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/margo/papers/  . My impression
> is that this is fundamental experimental work, not production stage,
> and "micro" level.
> 
> - Peter Buneman has done fundamental work in tracking provenance
> within databases, the work is broader -- it has applications in
> citation and versioning. When last I talked with him, he has some
> software one can use in applications -- but not really production.
> 
> This list of his pubs is a bit out of date, maybe better to use ACM or
> Gscholar:
> http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/opb/homepagefiles/pubs.html
> 
> - Juliana Freire http://vgc.poly.edu/~juliana/#pubs and  Paul Groth
> http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/paul-groth/ are doing broader work in
> modeling and supporting provenance across entire workflows (within
> workflow systems). Very interesting, and Julaina's "vistrails" system
> is quite usable in production.
> 
> - Henry Gladney is not writing much anymore, but did some provocative
> work in provenance at archival time-scales. This is the only attempt
> that I know of to define formal computational properties of digital
> preservation systems (though I vaguely recall some of Hector
> Garcia-Molina's team working on this 15 years ago -- so they probably
> did publish something related):
> http://www.hgladney.com/hmgpubs.htm
> 
> best,
> 
> Micah
> 
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Goethals, Andrea
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Are any of you aware of or have knowledge about the study of
> provenance in computer science? Over the last few years I've come
> across technical workshops, research, etc. in this area and it has me
> curious if this is one of those areas where we could benefit from some
> cross-domain pollination because we're also interested in provenance.
> Here's some examples of what I'm talking about:
> >
> > TaPP 2012 : 4th USENIX Workshop on the Theory and Practice of
> Provenance
> >
> http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=20432&copyowne
> rid=9119
> >
> > PASS: Provenance-Aware Storage Systems
> > http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/syrah/pass/
> >
> > PASS was/is? A Harvard project so I could ask  someone here about it
> if there's interest.
> >
> > Andrea Goethals
> > Digital Preservation and Repository Services Manager
> > Harvard Library Office for Information Systems
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> > (617) 495-3724
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