Re: Modeling Uncertainty in PROV - presented at WWW2013

Hi Tom,

Thanks for sharing. Is the paper here:

  http://www2013.org/companion/p167.pdf

the same version of the paper you have to pay IEEE for?

//Ed

On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 4:58 AM, Tom De Nies <tom.denies@ugent.be> wrote:
> Hi Carl,
>
> thanks for the useful information!
>
> COBWEB looks like an extremely interesting project, where there is a clear
> need for trustworthiness assessment of the data that is gathered.
>
> I hadn't heard of UnCertML. For my use cases, at first glance it's seems to
> be a bit overkill since there's less statistics involved, but I'll
> definitely keep it in mind should more complex scenarios present themselves.
> In any case, it would definitely be interesting to see how it could be
> combined with PROV.
>
> Regards,
> Tom
> Tom De Nies
> Researcher Semantic Web
> Ghent University - iMinds
> Faculty of Engineering and Architecture
> Department of Electronics and Information Systems - Multimedia Lab
> Gaston Crommenlaan 8 bus 201, B-9050 Ledeberg-Ghent, Belgium
>
> t: +32 9 331 49 59
> e: tom.denies@ugent.be
>
> URL:  http://multimedialab.elis.ugent.be
>
>
> 2013/6/7 Carl Reed <creed@opengeospatial.org>
>>
>> Thanks, Tom -
>>
>> Uncertainty is a “big deal” with spatial data, whether collected by
>> traditional survey techniques, from sensors, or for volunteered geographic
>> information (VGI).
>>
>> For example, check out COBWEB
>> http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/initiatives/cobweb as an interesting
>> example of where data quality, provenance, and uncertainty all collide.
>>
>> In terms of the geosciences (hydrology, meteorology, etc), we have been
>> using UnCertML for modeling and encoding uncertainty in our standards work.
>>
>> I will share your presentation with the OGC Membership. I suspect that
>> there will be considerable interest.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Carl Reed, PhD
>> CTO
>> OGC
>>
>>
>> From: Tom De Nies
>> Sent: Friday, June 07, 2013 6:22 AM
>> To: public-prov-comments@w3.org
>> Subject: Modeling Uncertainty in PROV - presented at WWW2013
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> since we're sharing PROV stories, I thought I'd let you know of our recent
>> contribution at WWW2013 [1].
>>
>> It's a very simple & lightweight set of attributes, used to model
>> provenance in case the content is uncertain, or when the provenance
>> statements are uncertain themselves.
>> I needed these for my work with Named Entity Recognition, provenance
>> reconstruction and trust assessment, and decided to write a short paper
>> about them in case someone else had use for them. Since most PROV statements
>> support attributes, the PROV I add these to remains perfectly valid.
>> Of course, you could create your own attributes for this, but should you
>> want to use them as well, we've created an "UP" namespace at our lab's
>> website [2].
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Tom
>>
>> [1] De Nies, Tom, et al. "Modeling uncertain provenance and provenance of
>> uncertainty in W3C PROV." Proceedings of the 22nd international conference
>> on World Wide Web companion. International World Wide Web Conferences
>> Steering Committee, 2013.
>> http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2487871
>> [2] http://semweb.mmlab.be/ns/up/
>>
>> Tom De Nies
>> Researcher Semantic Web
>> Ghent University - iMinds
>> Faculty of Engineering and Architecture
>> Department of Electronics and Information Systems - Multimedia Lab
>> Gaston Crommenlaan 8 bus 201, B-9050 Ledeberg-Ghent, Belgium
>>
>> t: +32 9 331 49 59
>> e: tom.denies@ugent.be
>>
>> URL:  http://multimedialab.elis.ugent.be
>>
>
>

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