Provenance information concerning the creation, attribution, or version history of such data is crucial for assessing its. Current database technology provides little assistance for managing provenance. However, although many candidate definitions of provenance have been proposed, the mathematical or semantic foundations of data provenance have received comparatively little attention. Introduction curated databases, which consist of data extracted from original sources, printed articles, and other databases, are a valuable source of data for scientists. Provenance management in curated databases citeseerx. On the importance of curated databases sib swiss institute of bioinformatics geneva, switzerland. Curated databases in bioinformatics and other disciplines are the result of a great deal of manual annotation, correc tion and transfer of data from other sources. The getty provenance index gpi provides access to archival inventories, sales catalogs, and dealer stock books. Provenance management in databases under schema evolution. In this paper we study the problem of tracking provenance of scientific data in.
Provenance index databases getty research institute. Pdf curated databases are databases that are populated and updated with a great deal of human effort. Many curated databases are constructed by scientists integrating various. In this paper we motivate and present a simple model of provenance for manually curated databases and discuss ongoing and future work. Capturing interactive data transformation operations the concept of interactive data transformation is strongly related to data curation, where human intervention in the data aggregation, cleaning, and transformation is increased. Since it is now easy to publish databases on the web. The perm provenance management system in action boris glavic database technology research group. Additional databases provides access to the collectors files, payments to artists, and public collections. Provenance algebra and materialized viewbased provenance. Some basic issues p eter buneman, sanjeev khanna and w angchiew t an univ ersit yof p ennsylv ania abstract.
Provenance management in curated databases peter buneman university of edinburgh edinburgh, uk adriane p. The topics of annotation, provenance, and citation are central, because curated databases are heavily crossreferenced with, and include data from, other databases, and much of the work of a curator is annotating existing data. An efficient and secure method for detecting provenance. We describe how provenance has been used in manually curated databases.
Curated databases present a number of challenges for database research. Provenance information concerning the creation, attribution, or version history of such data is crucial for. Provenance, from the french word provenir meaning to come from, describes the lineage of an entity. In particular, the metadata carried by our technique can use the prov data model already developed by the w3c provenance interchange working group 2. In this paper, we introduce bdbms, an extensible prototype database management system for supporting biological data. Combining provenance and security policies in a webbased document management system brian j. Provenance tracking has been studied in a variety of settings, particularly database management systems. Integration is a central activity in bioinformatics.
Development of a data management architecture for the. They have also shown that the space overhead for doing so is acceptable. In acm pods symposium on principles of database systems, 2007. References 1 peter buneman, adriane chapman, and james cheney. For example, at the 2006 acm sigmod conference in the paper, provenance management in curated databases, peter buneman described the two types of provenance as workflow and data flow. We describe an approach in which we track the users actions while browsing source databases and copy ing data into a curated database, in order to record the. A di erent type of provenance, that has been studied for relational databases and work ows, models which part of a process query, workow. The value of curated databases lies in the organization and the quality of the data they contain.
An architecture for provenance management in databases is also described by 1. Most reference works that one traditionally found on the reference shelves of libraries dictionaries, encyclopedias, gazetteers etc. Dynamic provenance for sparql updates using named graphs. Recording and managing the provenance of data is of paramount importance, as it allows supporting trust mechanisms, access control and privacy policies, digital rights management, quality management and assessment, in addition to reputability, reliability and accountability of data sources. Such manual bookkeeping is time consuming, errorprone and often incomplete. Provenance queries essentially query the behavior of programs, and it was a signi. We investigate the problem of secure and efficient provenance transmission and pr ocessing for sensor networks, and we use provenance to detect packet loss attacks staged by malicious sensor nodes. Provenance management in curated databases acm digital library. Introduction provenance and security are intimately related. Provenance management in curated databases edinburgh. Jun 27, 2006 provenance management in curated databases peter buneman university of edinburgh edinburgh, uk adriane p. Provenance information concerning the creation, attribution, or version history of such data is crucial for assessing its integrity and scienti. Provenance management in curated databases p buneman, a chapman, j cheney proceedings of the 2006 acm sigmod international conference on management of, 2006.
Like the paper reference works they have replaced, they usually. A semantic web framework for generic provenance management andre freitas, arnaud legendre, sean o. Some sources unreliable and some curators too curated db db db journal abstract curators hi, everybody. On explicit provenance management in rdfs graphs p. Data provenance in curated databases is discussed in. Riain, edward curry digital enterprise research institute deri national university of ireland, galway galway, ireland abstractprovenance is a cornerstone element in the process of enabling quality assessment for the web of data. Provenance information concerning the creation, attribution, or version history of such data is crucial for assessing its integrity and scienti c value. Most of the data stored in a curated database is a result of manual transfor. Though information provenance has been recognized as a hard problem in computing science british computing society, 2004, many fundamental research issues in provenance have yet to be. Lncs 4145 a provenance model for manually curated data. April 15, 2008 principles of provenance 14 curated databases created by manual effort of scientists curators copy from papers, other dbs which often copy from each other. Curation, annotation, provenance, archiving, citation. This is for curated databases which are used for archival purposes.
Combining provenance and security policies in a webbased. Combining le system metadata with content analysis. Although provenance modeling, collection, and querying have been studied extensively for effort flow and curated databases, provenance in. Most curators believe that additional record keeping is needed to record where the data comes from its provenance. Since it is now easy to publish databases on the web, there has been an explosion in the number of new curated databases used in scienti. The ease with whic h one can cop y and transform data on the w eb, has made it increasingly di cult to determine the origins of a piece of data. Provenance management approach in curated databases in scienti. The purpose of this paper is to describe the challenges involved in managing provenance for manually curated databases, and to summarize our. We define the provenance management problem for manually curated data. In this paper, we focus on providing data provenance management in relational databases for stored procedures. Curated database definition of curated database by. The work discusses key software engineering aspects for provenance capture and consumption and analyzes the suitability of the framework under the deployment of a realworld scenario. The current approach to managing provenance in curated data bases is for the database designer to augment the schema with.
Provenance information concerning the creation, attribution, or version history of such data is crucial for assessing its integrity and scientific value. Also, curated databases are updated in place with local copies of source data rather than constructed as views of source databases. Our approach, called psp, leverages the xml capabilities of sql. Curated databases are databases that are populated and updated with a great deal of human effort. Capturing interactive data transformation operations using. A lightweight secure scheme for detecting provenance.
Citeseerx provenance management in curated databases. Most reference works that one traditionally found on the reference shelves of libraries. Incorporating provenance in database systems by adriane p. A provenance model for manually curated data springerlink. Details about each type of resource are provided below. Provenance arises in a number of contex ts, including curated databases, work. Pdf metadata and provenance management bruce berriman and. May 14, 2016 tracking the provenance of information published on the web is of crucial importance for effectively supporting trustworthiness, accountability and repeatability in the web of data. Provenance management for linked data springerlink.
Curated bibliography as bib source file xg provenance wiki. In curated databases, data elements are often copied. Biological database curation biological databases on a number. Provenance management in curated databases proceedings of. Available formats pdf please select a format to send.
Curated database definition of curated database by medical. A primer on database provenance computer science illinois. Curated databases in bioinformatics and other disciplines are the result of a great deal of manual annotation, correction and transfer of data from other sources. Provenance is critical information in escience to accurately interpret scientific results. Provenance management in curated databases abstract curated databases in bioinformatics and other disciplines are the result of a great deal of manual annotation, correction and transfer of data from other sources. Research into data provenance has been active for al.
There has been some examination 2, 8, 16, 22, 24 of provenance issues in data warehouses. Proceedings of the 2008 symposium on principles of database systems pods 2008 112. Data provenance support in relational databases for stored. W e use the term data pr ovenanc e to refer to the pro cess of tracing and. Provenance as dependency analysis mathematical structures.
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