DataONE Provenance WG Meeting
June 7-8, Genome Center, UC Davis 


Overview: 

• Tuesday 
  • AM: ProvWG Session I
  • PM: ProvWG Session II
• Wednesday 
  • AM: ProvWG Session III & Summer Project Session I (joint session)
  • PM: Summer Project Session II 
    
    
    
    

Detailed Agenda Tuesday
Suggestion: List *where* we'll be meeting (which rooms in the Genome Center)

• 8:30--9am Informal start (coffee & bagels)
• 9--9:30am Introductions: ProvWG mission, deliverables, OPM/D-OPM, meeting goals
  • Suggestion: Make this 1 hour, include outcomes from last summer & last meeting
  • Maybe Paolo or you give talk from WORKS? 
  • agree with limiting this to one hour. we can give a /brief/ summary of WORKS but not more than 15'
• 9:30--noon: D-OPM = OPM + X. 
  • Discuss what's in scope, i.e., what is X?
  • What info, observables are relevant for users of wf system Y? (K,T,V,P, ...)
  • Suggestion: List some possible extensions already in scope (e.g., collaborative information, unique identifiers and identifier mappings, data collections, wf evolution, actors/actor occurrences/invocations, ...
  • Suggestion: Focus also on what features (queries, etc.) are enabled by observables, i.e., what can be done with these observables? This is more interesting than just listing a bunch of stuff that can't be (easily) represented in OPM.
  • where I come from (eScience Central, a cloud-based WFMS) provenance is perceived as a sort of "glorified log", which holds info like exec times of tasks etc. -- to be used for optimization of future runs. I suggest to consider this angle as well 
• Noon--1pm: LUNCH
• 1--5pm: D-OPM (cont'd):
  • how to represent X? conceptual schema (draft)
  • Suggestion: Start with schema from Saumen and others from last year?
  • Also, what representation technology(ies) should D-OPM support? Relational DB? XML? OWL? JSON?
    
    

Detailed Agenda Wednesday

• 8:30--9am Informal start (coffee & bagels)
• 9am--noon: Next steps on D-OPM, scoping of ProvWG / Summer Project
• Noon--1pm: LUNCH
• 1--5pm: Summer Project (cont'd)
  • prototype design, architecture
    
    
    
    
    
    

Guiding questions / Homework assignments for meeting participants:
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