Abstract
This paper describes the foundations of a framework for constructing interoperable semantic applications that support recording of provenance information. The framework uses a client-server infrastructure to control the encoding of application. Provenance records for application components, settings, and data sources are stored as part of the final application file using the Open Provenance Model (OPM) [1]. The application can render events such as setting changes to users so that they can identify when collaborators make changes to the application. We demonstrate how the system can be used to collaborate on a project, identify errors in data sources, and extrapolate insights to other data sets by making changes to the application. Lastly, we outline some key issues related to using asymmetric key encryption for tracking changes in semantic content and how we address them (or not) within this framework.
Chapter PDF
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Moreau, L., Clifford, B., Freire, J., Gil, Y., Groth, P., Futrelle, J., Kwasnikowska, N., Miles, S., Missier, P., Myers, J., Simmhan, Y., Stephan, E., Van den Bussche, J.: The Open Provenance Model Core Specification (v1.1), http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18332/1/opm_OnlinePDF.pdf
Altintas, I., Berkley, C., Jaeger, E., Jones, M., Ludascher, B., Mock, S.: Kepler: an extensible system for design and execution of scientific workflows. In: Scientific and Statistical Database Management (2004)
Freire, J., Silva, C.T., Callahan, S.P., Santos, E., Scheidegger, C.E., Vo, H.T.: Managing Rapidly-Evolving Scientific Workflows. In: Moreau, L., Foster, I. (eds.) IPAW 2006. LNCS, vol. 4145, Springer, Heidelberg (2006)
Callahan, S.P., Freire, J., Scheidegger, C.E., Silva, C.T., Vo, H.T.: A Process-Driven Approach to Provenance-Enabling Existing Applications.
Berners-Lee, T., Chen, Y., Chilton, L., Connolly, D., Dhanaraj, R., Hollenbach, J., Lerer, A., Sheets, D.: Tabulator: Exploring and Analyzing linked data on the Semantic Web. In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Semantic Web User Interaction Workshop
Christensen, E., Cubera, F., Meredith, G., Weerawarana, S.: Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.1., http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl
Martin, D., Paolucci, M., McIlraith, S., Burstein, M., McDermott, D., McGuinness, D.L., Parsia, B., Payne, T., Sabou, M., Solanki, M., Srinivasan, N., Sycara, K.: Bringing Semantics to Web Services: The OWL-S Approach. In: Cardoso, J., Sheth, A.P. (eds.) SWSWPC 2004. LNCS, vol. 3387, Springer, Heidelberg (2005)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Patton, E.W., Difranzo, D., McGuinness, D.L. (2010). SAF: A Provenance-Tracking Framework for Interoperable Semantic Applications. In: McGuinness, D.L., Michaelis, J.R., Moreau, L. (eds) Provenance and Annotation of Data and Processes. IPAW 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6378. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17819-1_9
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17819-1_9
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-17818-4
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-17819-1
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)