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Mining Taverna's semantic web of provenance. / Zhao, Jun; Goble, Carole; Stevens, Robert et al.
In: Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Vol. 20, No. 5, 10.04.2008, p. 463-472.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Mining Taverna's semantic web of provenance
AU - Zhao, Jun
AU - Goble, Carole
AU - Stevens, Robert
AU - Turi, Daniele
PY - 2008/4/10
Y1 - 2008/4/10
N2 - Taverna is a workflow workbench developed as part of the UK's myGrid project. Taverna's provenance model captures both internal provenance locally generated in Taverna and external provenance gathered from third-party data providers. This model also supports overlaying secondary provenance over the primary logs and lineage. This design is motivated by the particular properties of bioinformatics data and services used in Taverna. A Semantic Web of provenance, Ouzo, is built to combine the above different provenance by means of semantic annotations. This paper shows how Ouzo can be mined by a provenance usage component, Provenance Query and Answer (ProQA). ProQA supports provenance retrievals as well as provenance abstraction, aggregation, and semantic reasoning. ProQA is implemented as a suite APIs which can be deployed as provenance services to compose system provenance workflows that analyse experiment results using the provenance records. We show how these features of Taverna's provenance support us in answering the questions from the provenance challenge workshop and a set of additional provenance queries.
AB - Taverna is a workflow workbench developed as part of the UK's myGrid project. Taverna's provenance model captures both internal provenance locally generated in Taverna and external provenance gathered from third-party data providers. This model also supports overlaying secondary provenance over the primary logs and lineage. This design is motivated by the particular properties of bioinformatics data and services used in Taverna. A Semantic Web of provenance, Ouzo, is built to combine the above different provenance by means of semantic annotations. This paper shows how Ouzo can be mined by a provenance usage component, Provenance Query and Answer (ProQA). ProQA supports provenance retrievals as well as provenance abstraction, aggregation, and semantic reasoning. ProQA is implemented as a suite APIs which can be deployed as provenance services to compose system provenance workflows that analyse experiment results using the provenance records. We show how these features of Taverna's provenance support us in answering the questions from the provenance challenge workshop and a set of additional provenance queries.
KW - workflow
KW - provenance
KW - semantic annotation
U2 - 10.1002/cpe.1231
DO - 10.1002/cpe.1231
M3 - Journal article
VL - 20
SP - 463
EP - 472
JO - Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience
JF - Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience
SN - 1532-0626
IS - 5
ER -