Re: Call for position statements "PROV: Three Years Later"

Dear all,
Second and final call for position statements for "PROV: Three Years Later".
Regards,
Luc

On 17/03/2016 19:26, Luc Moreau wrote:
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>     A workshop endorsed byW3C <https://www.w3.org/>atProvenance Week
>     <http://www2.mitre.org/public/provenance2016/>, June 6, 2016,
>     Washington DC.
>     http://provenanceweek.org/2016/p3yl/
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>           Organizing Committee
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>     Luc Moreau (chair) 	University of Southampton
>     Phil Archer 	W3C
>     Reza B'Far 	Oracle
>     Yolanda Gil 	Information Science Institute
>     Paul Groth 	Elsevier Labs
>     Timothy Lebo 	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
>     Deborah Nichols 	The MITRE Corporation
>     Curt Tilmes 	National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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>           Abstract
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>     Provenance Week 2016 will take place three years after the
>     publication of the PROV recommendations and notes. The purpose of
>     this workshop is twofold: 1) to collect practical experiences with
>     using PROV in real-world applications so that we can take stock of
>     its impact, and 2) to identify interoperability challenges with
>     the current PROV specifications. The aim is to develop a community
>     consensus around the priorities for PROV.
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>           Background
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>     Provenance, defined as a record that describes the people,
>     institutions, entities, and activities involved in producing,
>     influencing, or delivering a piece of data or a thing, is crucial
>     in deciding whether information is to be trusted, how it should be
>     integrated with other diverse information sources, and how to give
>     credit to its originators when reusing it. In many environments,
>     such as the Web or the medical context where users find
>     information that is uncertain or questionable, provenance can help
>     those users to make trust judgements.
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>     In 2013, the World Wide Web Consortium published PROV, a standard
>     for expressing, sharing, and discovering provenance on the Web. It
>     consists of a conceptual data model (PROV-DM
>     <https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-dm/>), an OWL2 ontology (PROV-O
>     <https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/>), a textual notation (PROV-N
>     <https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-n/>), a set of constraints to check
>     the consistency of provenance (PROV-CONSTRAINTS
>     <https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-constraints/>), an XML schema
>     (PROV-XML <https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-xml/>), conventions for
>     sharing and discovering provenance (PROV-AQ
>     <https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-aq/>), and various other more focused
>     specifications. Since then, PROV has seen adoption in some
>     flagship applications, continued strong interest by the academic
>     community, and promising tentative take-up in other
>     standardization organizations, such asHL7
>     <https://www.hl7.org/fhir/provenance.html>andOGC
>     <http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/initiatives/ows-10>.
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>     Three years later, it is time for provenance practitioners to take
>     stock, reflect on their practical experiences with using PROV in
>     their applications, understand the impact of PROV, and identify
>     interoperability challenges and shortcomings with the current
>     specifications. We invite the community to submit short position
>     statements, which will be presented in "lightning talks" at a
>     workshop on June 6, during Provenance Week. Talks will be grouped
>     by topics of interest. The workshop organisers will act as
>     facilitators, with the aim to develop a community consensus around
>     the priorities for PROV. Position statements will be published
>     online as a record of the workshop.
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>           Topics of Interest
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>     The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics for position
>     statements reporting on*experiences*and*impact*:
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>       * API and software that use PROV
>       * Datasets and resources that use PROV
>       * Impact of provenance
>       * Scalability
>       * Presentation and explanation of provenance to users
>       * Multi-level provenance (provenance of provenance)
>       * Tradeoff and choices of different serializations
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>     The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics for position
>     statements reporting on*interoperability*and*requirements*:
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>       * Interoperability issues across serializations or within
>         serializations
>       * Missing features, expressivity shortcomings
>       * Adoption hurdles
>       * Security and provenance, provenance and signatures
>       * Embedding provenance in various types of documents
>       * Graphical representation of provenance
>       * Inter-operability across standards
>       * Extensions of PROV for additional requirements in different
>         domains and applications
>       * Abstraction of PROV records
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>     Authors are strongly encouraged, where appropriate, to make an
>     explicit link between requirements and application needs.
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>           Workshop Format
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>     Following this call for position statements, the workshop will be
>     structured as follows.
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>       * "Lightning talks" grouped by themes
>       * Open discussion about experiences and priorities
>       * Next steps.
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>           Timetable
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>       * March 18, 2016: Call published
>       * May 11, 2016: Deadline for submission
>       * May 15, 2016: Workshop programme published
>       * May 20, 2016:Registration closes
>         <http://www2.mitre.org/public/provenance2016/contact.html>
>       * June 6, 2016: Workshop
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>           Submission Procedure
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>     Submit short position statements (ideally less than a page)
>     throughhttps://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pw2016(please
>     select the track "PROV: Three Years Later").
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>     To facilitate publication on the Web, authors are encouraged to
>     submit documents in HTML, using theRASH framework
>     <https://github.com/essepuntato/rash>(Research Articles in
>     Simplified HTML). Mutliple submissions for different experiences
>     and/or requirements are welcome. As we are keen to gather as many
>     experiences and requirements as possible, it is acceptable for
>     authors to submit position statements, even if they cannot
>     physically attend the workshop, as long as they inform the organizers.
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>           Venue
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>     ProvenanceWeek 2016
>     <http://www2.mitre.org/public/provenance2016/index.html>, June
>     6-9, 2016, is being hosted byThe MITRE Corporation
>     <http://www2.mitre.org/public/provenance2016/venue.html>in McLean,
>     Virginia, USA, a short metro ride from Washington D.C. The
>     workshops IPAW and TAPP will be co-located during the week. The
>     workshop "PROV: 3 Years Later" will take place on the afternoon of
>     June 6. Entry to the workshop is free but we need to know who is
>     coming (note that registrations close on May 20!). All registered
>     attendees will be listed on the workshop Web site. Registration is
>     through the Provenance Weekregistration page
>     <http://www2.mitre.org/public/provenance2016/registration.html>.
>     Participants are cordially invited to register for subsequent
>     Provenance Week events.
>
>     -- 
>     Professor Luc Moreau
>     Head of the Web and Internet Science Group
>     Electronics and Computer Science   tel:   +44 23 8059 4487
>     University of Southampton          twitter: @lucmoreau
>     Southampton SO17 1BJ, UKhttp://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lavm
>
>

-- 
Professor Luc Moreau
Head of the Web and Internet Science Group
Electronics and Computer Science   tel:   +44 23 8059 4487
University of Southampton          twitter: @lucmoreau
Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK           http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lavm