Document the provenance of the results

What This Task Involves

The training session and training materials indicate how to:

1. Capture the provenance of the results in a paper
2. Develop a workflow sketch, a formal workflow, or a provenance record that represent to different degrees of accuracy what the provenance of the results is
3. Publish the provenance and make it part of a publication

Training Materials

This training session was held on March 6, 2015:

• Presentation

Suggested Readings

• “Requirements for Provenance on the Web.” Paul Groth, Yolanda Gil, James Cheney, Simon Miles. International Journal of Digital Curation, 7(1), 2012.
  • A general overview of provenance'

• "A Primer for the PROV Provenance Model." Yolanda Gil, Simon Miles, Khalid Belhajjame, Helena Deus, Daniel Garijo, Graham Klyne, Paolo Missier, Stian Soiland-Reyes, and Stephan Zednik. Published as a W3C Working Group Note on 30 April 2013.
  • A brief and practical introduction to the PROV standard for provenance, showing examples of how to represent the provenance record in RDF through a simple notation called Turtle

• "Intelligent Workflow Systems and Provenance-Aware Software." Gil, Y. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress on Environmental Modeling and Software, San Diego, CA, 2014.
  • A brief introduction to workflows for scientists, giving examples and explanations of their benefits

What To Do

We described many options in the training. Here is a sketch of the most common approach:

1. Create a public entry for your dataset with a permanent unique identifier.