The 3rd International Provenance and Annotation Workshop (IPAW'2010)
Troy NY, USA, June 15-16, 2010
http://tw.rpi.edu/ipaw2010
Interest in and needs for provenance are growing as data proliferates.
Data is increasing in a wide array of application areas, including
scientific workflow systems, logical reasoning systems, text
extraction, social media, and linked data. As data increases and as
applications become more hybrid and distributed in nature, there is
increasing interest in where data came from and how it was produced in
order to understand when and how to rely on it.
Provenance, or the origin or source of something, can capture a wide
range of information. This includes, for example, who or what generated
the data, history of data stewardship, manner of manufacture, place and
time of manufacture, and so on. Annotation is tightly connected with
provenance since data is often commented on, described, and referred
to. These descriptions or annotations are often critical to the
understandability, reusability, and reproducibility of data and thus
are often critical components of today’s data and knowledge systems.
Provenance has been recognized to be important in a wide range of areas
including databases, workflows, knowledge representation and reasoning,
and digital libraries. Thus, many disciplines have proposed a wide
range of provenance models, techniques, and infrastructure for encoding
and using provenance. One timely challenge for the broader community is
to understand the range of strengths and weaknesses of different
approaches sufficiently to find and use the best models for any given
situation. This also comes at a time when a new incubator group has
been formed at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to provide a state
of the art understanding and develop a roadmap in the area of
provenance for Semantic Web technologies, development, and possible
standardization.
== Topics ==
This workshop builds on a successful line of provenance and annotation
workshops (
http://www.ipaw.info/).
It aims to bring together a broad range of provenance researchers and
users in order to discuss progress in and open research problems
related to provenance and annotation. Topics of interest include but
are not limited to:
* Provenance models
* Architectures and data management techniques for provenance data
* Provenance requirements and use cases
* Provenance-aware reasoning
* Provenance-aware Semantic Web applications and technologies
* Presentation techniques and tools for provenance data
* Security and privacy issues for provenance data
* Provenance integration and interoperability
* Provenance for social media
* Provenance for linked data
* Query languages and query processing techniques for provenance data
* Storage and query interfaces for workflow provenance
* Provenance analysis, mining and visualization
* Provenance systems, functionality, protocols, implementation
* Provenance, business processes and compliance
* Provenance prototypes and commercial solutions
* Provenance in scientific publications
* Provenance and its relationship to annotation and metadata
* Provenance for digital libraries
== Submission ==
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers
that are not under review for publication elsewhere. Papers may be up
to 12 pages in length, including reference and appendix. Detailed
submission instructions will be available on the Submission page
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ipaw2010.
Submitted
research papers will also be automatically considered for the
poster-only option. Proceedings will be published after the workshop by
Springer.
IPAW 2010 is also soliciting shorter submissions of ongoing work in the
form of proposals for demonstrations, posters, or statements of
interest. Short papers may be up to 4 pages in length. Demonstration
proposals should describe the context and highlights of the proposed
demonstration and include a brief description of the demonstration
scenario.
== Important Dates ==
* Abstract deadline: March 8, 2010
* Submission deadline (papers, demos & posters): March 15, 2010
* Notification to authors: April 22, 2010
* Camera-ready deadline: June 1, 2010
* Presentation deadline: June 13, 2010
* Workshop: June 15-16, 2010
== Collocated Events ==
Provenance Hackathon (June 14, 2010) The day before the workshop. There
will be a one day hackathon with a prize awarded during the conference.
Provenance Challenge Planning day (June 17, 2010) The day after the
workshop. There will be a one day planning meeting for the next
provenance challenge.