Call for position statements "PROV: Three Years Later"

    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/


          Organizing Committee

    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


          Abstract

    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.


          Background

    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.

    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>.

    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.


          Topics of Interest

    The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics for position
    statements reporting on*experiences*and*impact*:

      * 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

    The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics for position
    statements reporting on*interoperability*and*requirements*:

      * 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

    Authors are strongly encouraged, where appropriate, to make an
    explicit link between requirements and application needs.


          Workshop Format

    Following this call for position statements, the workshop will be
    structured as follows.

      * "Lightning talks" grouped by themes
      * Open discussion about experiences and priorities
      * Next steps.


          Timetable

      * 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


          Submission Procedure

    Submit short position statements (ideally less than a page)
    throughhttps://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pw2016(please select
    the track "PROV: Three Years Later").

    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.


          Venue

    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, UK           http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lavm