Provenance and GLD (Action 5)

Hi Everyone!

A quick update:
* I've made initial contact with Stephen Cresswell (UK-TSO) and am
awaiting response
* I've "updated" Action 5 <http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/track/actions/5>
with several resources related to Stephen's work on "Provenance in
Publication of Legislation" <http://bit.ly/o1247B> and on provenance
modelling in general (OMPV, PML, etc).

This is all for background; the key question is, "what do we want?"
The four use cases that Stephen has cited for the UK legislation work
are steep; in particular, do we anticipate a requirement that reads
(to paraphrase Stephen's document), "In order to demonstrate that the
published DATA is correct and complete, it should be possible to
re-execute the DATA publication workflow from the provenance graph..."
(where "publication" might include e.g. RDF conversion, etc)

<snip>
Four use cases are envisaged:
(1) Drafters of legislation (e.g. government departments): Drafters
need to track progress of specific items -- e.g. how is my job
progressing through publication workflow?
(2) Management: TNA need to be able to aggregate information about
timings throughout the workflow, in order to provide information about
the efficiency of the workflow -- e.g. where are the bottlenecks in
the workflow?
(3) System maintainers: The provenance information should assist in
tracing the source and consequences of errors -- e.g. which documents
were derived from this XSLT?
(4) Users of the published legislation may need to know what processes
an item of legislation has been through since it was drafted -- e.g.
where did this document come from?

In order to demonstrate that the published legislation in correct and
complete, TNA require that it should be possible re-execute the
publication workflow from the provenance graph.
</snip>

-- 
John S. Erickson, Ph.D.
Director, Web Science Operations
Tetherless World Constellation (RPI)
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Received on Friday, 16 September 2011 12:51:30 UTC