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Towards Recovering Provenance with Experiment Explorer

Authors:
Delmar B. Davis
Hazeline U. Asuncion
Ghaleb M. Abdulla
Christopher W. Carr

Keywords: data provenance; metadata; provenance recovery; information management.

Abstract:
In this work, we present Experiment Explorer (EE), a framework for recovering provenance that uses provenance compatible research processes and a lightweight, user-friendly metadata search tool. EE also captures recovered provenance along with file relationships and incorporates new files to support provenance recovery over time. Our case study at a research laboratory suggests that EE is effective in connecting distributed provenance information and in increasing the accessibility of related experiment files. Our scalability analysis also indicates that EE’s tool support can scale to hundreds of thousands of heterogeneous files.

Pages: 104 to 110

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: February 24, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4375

ISBN: 978-1-61208-254-7

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from February 24, 2013 to March 1, 2013