Provenance Reconstruction Challenge 2014
Schedule
- February 17, 2014 Test Data released
- May 18, 2014 Last day to register for participation
- May 19, 2014 Challenge Data released
- June 13, 2014 Provenance Reconstruction Challenge Event at Provenance Week – Cologne Germany
From the post:
While the use of version control systems, workflow engines, provenance aware filesystems and databases, is growing there is still a plethora of data that lacks associated data provenance. To help solve this problem, a number of research groups have been looking at reconstructing the provenance of data using the computational environment in which it resides. This research however is still very new in the community. Thus, the aim the Provenance Reconstruction Challenge is to help spur research into the reconstruction of provenance by providing a common task and datasets for experimentation.
The Challenge
Challenge participants will receive an open data set and corresponding provenance graphs (in W3C PROV formant). They will then have several months to work with the data trying to reconstruct the provenance graphs from the open data set. 3 weeks before the challenge face-2-face event the participants will receive a new data set and a gold standard provenance graph. Participants are asked to register before the challenge dataset is released and to prepare a short description of their system to be placed online after the event.
The Event
At the event, we will have presentations of the results and the systems as well as a group conversation around the techniques used. The event will result in a joint report about techniques for reproducing provenance and paths forward.
For further information on the W3C PROV format:
PROV at Semantic Web Wiki.
PROV Implementation Report (60 implementations as of 30 April 2013)
I first saw this in a tweet by Paul Groth.