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Thanks Micah. This is really helpful. Now if only I can find time to read them ;) Andrea > -----Original Message----- > From: The NDSA infrastructure working group list [mailto:NDSA- > [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dr. Micah > Altman > Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 1:26 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [NDSA-INFRASTRUCTURE] provenance > > 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 This list of his pubs is a bit out of date, maybe better to use ACM or 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©owne > 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 > > [log in to unmask] > > (617) 495-3724 > > > > > > ############################ > > > > To unsubscribe from the NDSA-INFRASTRUCTURE list: > > write to: mailto:NDSA-INFRASTRUCTURE-SIGNOFF- > [log in to unmask] > > or click the following link: > > http://list.digitalpreservation.gov/SCRIPTS/WA- > DIGITAL.EXE?SUBED1=NDSA-INFRASTRUCTURE&A=1 > > > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------------------------------- > Micah Altman, Ph.D. <http://micahaltman.com> Twitter: > @drmaltman > Director of Research -- MIT Libraries; Head/Scientist, Program on > Information Science > Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution > "Entia non sunt multiplicanda sine necessitate" - Doctor Invincibilis > (Corollary, "Ad indicia spectate.") > > ############################ > > To unsubscribe from the NDSA-INFRASTRUCTURE list: > write to: mailto:NDSA-INFRASTRUCTURE-SIGNOFF- > [log in to unmask] > or click the following link: > http://list.digitalpreservation.gov/SCRIPTS/WA-DIGITAL.EXE?SUBED1=NDSA- > INFRASTRUCTURE&A=1 ############################ To unsubscribe from the NDSA-INFRASTRUCTURE list: write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the following link: http://list.digitalpreservation.gov/SCRIPTS/WA-DIGITAL.EXE?SUBED1=NDSA-INFRASTRUCTURE&A=1